Having dyed the most scrumptious yarn ever, I began the hunt for the correct size needles to cast on and knit a cowl to dye for. Little problem, people: I seem to be missing the correct size tips for the project in mind. In fact, there seem to quite a few needles and tips missing… you know what happened next. I went on a UFO hunt.
OK, if you are reading this blog post looking for information on extra-terrestrials, go away. Once I posted an article titled “UFO Hunt” to this blog and generated a lot of activity and even a couple of messages signaling how disappointed people were with the “click-bait” false advertising. Go away right now. I’m not saying that I don’t believe in life out there in the universe, I just want to find the black hole UFO’s that have sucked down those needles!
Oh dear. After about a half hour of tossing the stash and going through baskets, bags, and looking in the car (Hey, you can’t expect me to be caught without something to knit. I always travel with a project!), the following UFO’s were located.
Well, no wonder I seem to be missing needles. Here they are, all hard at work supporting fiber art life forms struggling to get born. I need a new queue just to decide which UFO to knit first. I thought about putting the names of the projects on slips of paper in a jar, and then I would just pull out the name of the next project that would get finished. Maybe I should have two jars; one for large projects (sweaters and shawls) and one for small ones (mitts and cowl). Hey, that actually might be a good idea. I could knit small projects on sunny days and large ones on rainy days. It could be a plan. I could even have a jar with the names of projects waiting to be started. Oops. I suddenly had a visual of slips jar hopping from the “waiting” to the “UFO” jars. Might be a problem.
Forget the jars. Don’t you want to know what did I did? I cast on the new alpaca cowl onto those size 6 needles I was hunting for, of course. I have knit for three days like a demon and I’m now coming down the home stretch. Doesn’t it look nice?
OK, this isn’t a queue, but it is a list of all these poor, neglected UFOs. Here are their project notes on Ravelry:
- Scleroderma Mitts – my notes include the pattern.
- Hawkshaw Cowl
- Benevolence Shawl
- Guernsey Pullover
- Alpaca Berry Cowl – my notes include the pattern
Have a good weekend everyone. Hope you all get some knitting done!
Yarn, Books & Roses 
Suggestion: Finish the mitts with the thumbs. Since you hate them, you’ve probably been dreading them, but they shouldn’t take too long. Then move on to a project you like better, as a “reward” for finishing the darned thumbs…or just indulge in a little chocolate;-)…I like to keep my ufo’s in bags, because they often travel with me…though one of the current ones doesn’t travel anywhere…I need “alone” and “quiet” time to knit those socks…I don’t do quiet well…I don’t do alone very well, either;-)
Naw, that’s not the problem. I like to put them off until I have several pairs of mitts lined up, and then I do them all together. It is pathetic. I finished the alpaca cowl last night and I’m taking the other brioche cowl with me in the car today. The shawls will be television knitting.
This makes me cranky because I want to start projects with the new birthday yarn. Sigh.
Is that like a trinity or bobble stitch. I like the poofiness. I hate it when I have missing needles.
You are exactly right- that is trinity stitch. I like the poof too, and the wrong side is kind of an interesting mesh too so it works in the moebius.
That’s a lot of UFO’s! 😀 Hope you get them out of the way and get all your needles back. 🙂
I cleared one Saturday and am on pace to get another one off the needles tonight. Need my needles back!!
I’m glad I’m not the only one who does this. lol I have decided that when all my needles are engaged, then it’s time to either finish some projects or else bite the bullet and admit I’m not going to finish certain things. Either way, the needles get freed up to work on something new with me. 🙂
I’ve taken projects off the needles and onto a lifeline holder, but you know that’s just a step away from abandoning the project… I’ve been known to just buy more needles, but then the UFOs multiply like rabbits. I’m glad that I’m actually working my way through some projects thus time.