UFOs

In craftland, UFOs are not alien space ships or blimps that you don't recognize right away, but unfinished objects. They are the projects that were abandoned for one reason or another: loss of enthusiasm, disenchantment or the fickle behavior of a crafter who was distracted by shiny new projects. As far as knitting goes, I have my two active projects (one is marginal and seems to be heading towards reclassification as a UFO) and one UFO. I hadn't given it much thought until Betsy's post.

I think it has been languishing for about two and a half years. In the interim, I have started other projects, finished some and even, in a fit of cleaning, threw one away. I was never going to finish it and really, what was the point of keeping it around, since the yarn was free and also scratchy?

I started this one in an attempt to be creative and improvisational. I was going to knit a pair of comfortable pants that I could wear around the apartment as pajamas. This was before Interweave Knits published a pattern for their No-Sweat Pants (here is Alison's version), so it was novel. I guess knitted pants are still a sort of novelty. I had knitted them in the round, almost finished one leg and then got discouraged.

Now I'm thinking, I will just rip back the one leg to shorts length, knit the other leg and call it a project... one that I can count as being completed for part of my "finish two projects before buying any new supplies" plan. It should still count as a completed project, yes? Yes.