Abandoned knitting projects?

I think we all have stories of how, even with the best intentions, we have started a project only to leave it stuffed int eh back of the closet never to be seen again. For me, this project was my first sweater. I chose a pattern and even scoured the internet for knitalongs and reviews so taht I could have a place to go when I ran into trouble. I chose a yarn color I liked and even made a swatch to get my gauge. The front of the sweater came out fine, but when I went to make the back...disaster struck. For some reason, it seems that the back is going to end up at least 4 inches longer than the front did. I wanted to pull the yarn out and try again, but the yarn I chose is temprametal. It breaks and leave little balls of purple fluff everywhere. The worse part is that even if I finished it, I doubt that I would wear it because it just seems so solid and way too warm for something that is sort sleeved. I have no idea what I was thinking. It may be that someday, I will find an expert knitter and bring it to them for help in fishing it, but as of now, I haven't touched it since last summer. Thank goodness I got the yarn on sale or who knows how much money I would be out.

I have a few projects that have been abandoned, for easier project. Most notably, I was making Stitch and &itches, "Poster Boy Bag". I made my own chart of James Marsters (Spike From Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and everything. I think I'm about 3/4 done, but it's been set aside for around 2 years now! I don't know why I just can't bring myself to finish it, even though it's actually coming out pretty well. Maybe because the fairisle is just sooooo tedious, and you really have to be focused to make sure you are following the cart....and I'm going the chart design on both sides of the bag. At this point I'm past his eyes, so right now the bag just looks at me...accusingly, since it's not done yet.

I have a pair of gloves waiting for me for about two years, I guess. One of them has two fingers already... I was knitting a lot of gloves for money about 15 years ago, and I'm still fed up with them. Just tried to see, could I get over this feeling or not... Well, a negative result. Hopefully I will one day.

I used to abandon alot. Mainly large items, because I wasn't enjoying it or just wasn't seeing any end to it.Now I have a rule, I put it down and make something I'll finish quickly, like a hat or scarf, and if I don't go back to it in a week or 2 I rip it, providing its not 3/4s done. Then I grit my teeth and carry on!

Funny that you would ask this now. LOL My husband brought down a trunk for the attic for me to go through the other day. I found a sweater that was nearly finished, it still had the needles in it. LOL I had forgotten all about it. I had been working on it when we moved into this home and they never did get unpacked. That has been 9 years ago this June. Do you think I would have ever remembered? LOL

I started knitting a scarf a couple of years ago and pretty much set it to the side and never touched it again until a few months ago. I was cleaning my room and found it and I remebered working on it and trying to figure things out (it was only about 1/4 finished...I had 3/4 left to go!) and it was only my second scarf I'd ever tried to knit so I was a pro or anything and I didn't knit very fast so it took me a long time just to knit that 1/4 of a scarf, so I thought about how long I had worked on it already and how pretty it would be once I finished it so I picked it up and started to work on it again. I finished it a couple of weeks later and I was so happy to finally finish it! In the process I learned to knit faster and faster and I've just finished my 9th scarf (last night!)!! I'm getting better and better and learning new stitches in the process and new looks so I'm glad I picked that scarf up from 2 years ago and finished it instead of giving up on it. I'm pretty proud of myself!! So I don't think you should give up on knitting, if the project you've started to work on is too big (due to your arthritis) then maybe you can knit something smaller with what you've done already! Good Luck!!

So now the memories come flooding back! I have a baby sweater in my closet that is nearly finished. I have a baby shower to attend the weekend of my grandson's birthday. I may have time to finish both. But, the grandson's sweater comes first.

Hey, I've abandoned knitting projects that were working, and I just got lazy or bored of it. Knitting with florist's wire sounds like a creative way to make a splashguard.

I have just abandoned a pattern I was going to make into a scarf. I get it down right then when I have to stop and return to it I just get totally lost again. I did this many times. I finally gave up. I think I have to have time to do this project in one sitting for it to work. So for now I just left it alone.

No cause I don't knit. I did try weaving a blanket for my daughter when she was a baby. I gave that up cause it was just too much work. I thought it would be quick and easy but doing all those squares was a pain in the you know what.

I take after my mother in that we have HEAPs of unfinished projects between us. Hows this for great, when I was a baby, my Mum started to knit a sweater for me...only she never finished it....my baby girl is 4 months old, and so Mum has just decided to finish it for her!! It was 23 years in the making! hehe What I tend to do most is knit the whole project, and then never sew it up. I hate sewing up, and put it off for ever... So if anyone ever wants to do my sewing up, you know where to find me!!

I also think it's funny you ask this now! I just had my office mate ask me about a sweater I finished knitting back in late fall last year. I got it all knitted up and it is now 2/3 sewn up - but I didn't discover I didn't like the way I finished the cuffs on the sleeves until 1 sleeve was already sewn up completely. I have promised to frog the cuff and reknit it for nearly 6 months now, but it is a winter sweater so it is on *ignore* I have at least 3 other projects on permanent ignore right now, and at least 1 I do not want to frog because it will be a major pain - it is in a very fluffy yarn that once it gets knit together does NOT want to come apart!

I'm one of those sickening people that finish the projects they start. I have alot of unfinished projects that I inherited from my Mom when she passed away, and many of them will be taken apart and the yarn will be reused. About your fountain. Check to see if there is a way to adjust the water flow. If there isn't, you can get a hose clamp and slide the hose through it and screw the clamp until the water flow through your fountain is reduced to the point that it doesn't splash. I've done it on my fountains and it does make a difference.

well i do not like to think of it as abandoned a knitting project but more like just put on hold for a while sometimes i get busy or just do not feel like knitting and sometimes it is just hard for me to get motivated to knit then sometimes i just get bored knitting on the same project for a long time so i will go ahead and start another knitting project just to mix it up a little bit a few years ago i took on the project of knitting a sweater without following a pattern just making it up as i go along and it took me a while to work out all the kinks but i never abandoned the idea

Yes, I tried knitting a Kaffee Fassett sweater because I like things with a zillion colors. Unfortunately it was in a library book and though I made notes and worked on it after I returned the book, I got more and more confused. It was a vast project. Eventually it just ended up in a box somewhere.