I'm sure I'm not the only one who has this problem…. at least I hope I'm not.  I start a project with great gusto and lots of inspiration, then get bored and lo and behold the next shiny something crosses my brain and distracts me and I put the one project aside to go full force on the next… and I don't finish nearly enough projects!  I have a closet full of stash and unfinished projects that once held great appeal.

My resolution this year is to complete all of my UFO's before getting attacked by the next obsession, and hopefully in time to start new Christmas projects for next year! (Yeah, I know it was only a week ago, but it's never too soon to get started!!)

I thought about photographing and listing all my UFO's, but then I realized that there were just far too many, and shame and time don't allow. I decided to just tell you about them one at a time as I go through.  If I stop posting progress, kick me in my intarweb shins and tell me to get on the stick!

Project One!:

I bought this yarn on a cone - something like 12 pounds of it  - for a ridiculously low price over the internet probably 2-3 years ago. When it arrived, is was nearly sewing thread thin and kind of coarse.  It's really a pretty low grade wool.  I have sold some, dyed some, plied some, blah, bah, bah, but I still have to make space for a fair bit of it in the closet.  I'm tired of looking at it, so I dug it out the day after Christmas and started to make a rug.  I'm going to knit and knit and knit for as far as it will go to make a nice rectangular rug.  I have no idea where it's going, and it really doesn't match anything in my home, but by golly, it's going to be out of the closet AND be a functional item, so I'm satisfied.  If it turns out big enough, I'm very seriously considering felting it up in the washer so it will be a bit sturdier.   

This picture shows it 50% through my stash.  What I have left will reverse the pattern again and double the size. I'm knitting it with 4 strands of this string btw, so imagine how much I've been stashing!!

What about you?  Have you got any fibery (or other) New Year's Resolutions made yet?
Happy New Years Fiber Friends!!  I hope 2008 is your best year ever!

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I finished the socks I had been working on last week.  I think once they are done and on the feet, the coloration looks much better than I had expected.  The dragonfly stitch pattern is also much more attractive after the socks are washed and set!  Since they came out a ladies size 7-8 with the pattern repeats, they are too big for my feet, so I put them in the store.

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