I found my mom's unfinished knitting project

First, I am sorry for your loss, I lost my mother when I was 13, so I can relate. I also saw that you can knit, but don't know what she had in mind for this pattern. I suggest that you take a long good look at it, and finish it, using your own imagination. That way you will have a piece that is part her and part you..:)

firstly, sorry for your loss but if you are not sure of the pattern and cannot finish it, i think i would pull it apart and still use the wool that your mom worked with. it will still make you feel connected to her.

I had the same experience. There were sections and balls of yarn (all sizes)and I could not find a pattern or figure anything out. I just got the urge to start knitting and so I began a scarf. It became very long and it's great for wrapping round my head, neck and shoulders on really cold days.

I would recycle the wool and make something that you would like to wear. She picked the wool and she would not want you to throw it away. On the other hand, it´s very difficult to make a pattern out of nowhere so it´s better to start from the beginning. A poncho for Autumn and early Winter is just fine

Sorry about your mom.Personally if its not something you would wear,why not frog it and make something for you that you could wear.That way you will have of your something of your mothers.And when you wear it,she will be closer still.Maybe a shawl.That would be nice.

It sounds like your mom and you were close===God bless you for that! I'd probably try to finish it. Even if it's partially a pattern of your own, it would still remind you of your mom, Besides, I think she'll be smiling in heaven, knowing she made something with her daughter and whenever you wore it----well, your mom would want that I think.

Are you good enough at knitting, to finish it yourself? I know she didn't leave a pattern, but some people are so good at knitting that they really don't need one. If you were able to finish the project yourself, then you could say that this was the sweater that you and your mother made together.

I would look online to see if there is a pattern available that is similar and finish the project..imagine how you would feel to slip it over your head and be surrounded by her love!

If you're anything like me, you'll pack it up 'til you're ready to face it, then take it out & finish it. But that's just ME. YOU should do what feels right to YOU. MP

I totally understand what you are going through. I just lost my mother to COPD about three years ago and she also has several projects that she had started and never finished. I just put them in a plastic bin and put it in my room that is where I have stored everything of my mothers. Funny thing is I still have her hair brush, her toothbrush, and even her socks. I guess I still cannot bring myself to getting rid of all of these things. I miss her so much and have thought of finishing the projects that she had started for her but just thinking of doing so brings tears to my eyes. I was very close to her and I still feel like her stuff is still her stuff and that I would offend her if I mess with it.

This is a tough decision, and me having no talent could not do this but you could. What I would do is take it apart and make something from it that way whatever you make would be like having something the two of you made together even though you would have taken her original work apart she worked with it first.

I'm so sorry about your mom! If you feel that is correct to finished it, just make makro-photos of this part that you have and show them in site for knitters or in Cafemom.com. Knitters with experience will know what model is and how to finish it.

I think that you should finish it. Half of it is part of you the other half is part of your mom. You guys will always be together through knitting. R.I.P to you mom, I'm sorry for your loss.