I Just Discovered Some UFOs

I was searching for a needle this morning and spied a box on the top shelf of my bedroom closet here in Lethbridge that I thought might contain one.  It did.  But it also contained some UFOs ....some from as long ago as 2000 and others only four or five years ago.  No, they were not little alien space ships...although that would have been fun.  They were projects from my cross-stitching and knitting days before I discovered the world of scrapbooking.  UnFinished Objects.

I had been a cross-stitch fanatic for years.  I always had a project on the go - Christmas ornaments, pictures large and small, samplers, etc.  I've often thought of the last project I was working on and wondered whatever happened to it...an unfinished casualty of scrapbooking.  Today I found it.

I loved the colors in this one, and the wolf.  It's stitched on linen so
is a bit harder on the eyes to work than if it had been done on Aida
cloth.  All I have left to do are the angel's wings and some backstitch
outlining.  I stopped working on this around 2002.  If my eyes are up
to it, maybe I'll make an effort to complete it sometime this winter.

When I was a teenager I used to spend a lot of evenings babysitting and to pass the time I started knitting baby layettes.  By the time I got married when I was 22, I had no fewer than 13 complete baby sets - sweaters, bonnets and bootees - in my hope-to-God chest.  They all eventually got used and when the time came I started knitting the sets for my grandchildren.  Of course by then I had lots of other things on my hands and mind and only two of the babies received hand-knitted layettes from their Grammie.  Not that I didn't want to knit for them, but I just never finished them.  By that time cross-stitching had taken over from knitting.  It seems I can only concentrate on one craft at a time.  Here are a couple of UFOs in the knitting department that I came across this morning in my search for a needle.

This is the front and back of a sweet little cable knit sweater.  All it needs are
the sleeves and finishing touches.  Unfortunately the pattern wasn't in the
box with the finished portion of the set so I'll have to wait till I locate it
before I can finish it.  I remember making this pattern in blue for my very
first nephew - way back in 1971.

This is the back, sleeve and partially finished second sleeve of the
Quaker set.  It's an extremely simple pattern - maybe that's why I
never finished it - too boring.  I still have the pattern though so maybe
it'll get finished this winter too.

These are some odds and sods of very pretty yarn that was in the box with
the UFOs.  A few years ago I made all the girls hats and scarves for
Christmas with some of this yarn.

I know at home in Edmonton I have a partially finished sweater I started for my 35-year old daughter back when she was 16.  Maybe I'll finish it in time for her 7-year old daughter to wear when she's a teenager!  Also, sitting by my chair in the livingroom at home is a knitting basket containing a partically finished sweater I started making for my 4-year old granddaughter when she was 2.  Do you see a pattern here???

The weather forecasters are predicting a long, cold, snowy winter this year.  Guess I'll just have to sit by my fireside (television) and complete some of these UFOs.

Pat