Failing at everything!

The whole making a list of UFOs is not working out so good.  I did try, but by the time I'd filled my coffee table with ziplock bags full of half knitted yarn I started to realize that this was going to be a really big project.  This was something that was going to require some thought about how to organize and what info I really wanted to include.  Since I think best when I'm knitting, and having to find where I left off on any of the multitude of projects before me would take valuable knitting/thinking time, I cast on this:

Yes, I thought so long and hard that I actually finished it, except for the buttons.  It's Elizabeth Zimmerman's Baby Surprise Jacket in Jitterbug's Dusk colorway that I got from The Stitch Niche in Diamondhead.  I realize this means that I've failed in keeping my resolution to not start anything new, but I rationalize it by claiming that I was overdue to start knitting for my newest grandchild that is due in February.  I chose this yarn as I wanted something that either a boy or girl could wear, and in the hank you could see much more of the purple than you can once knitted up.  Now, I'm thinking it is much more a boy jacket than a girl.  Of course I realize this on the day my son-in-law calls and says that the latest ultrasound is "80% girl, but don't buy clothes yet".  Such is life.  In any event, I had a grand time knitting this, and talk about an exercise in trusting a pattern!  I had no idea where this was going until it was done and properly folded up.

I have taken up with one of my UFO since I finished above, but I don't really want to talk about it now as last night during the Saints game I had a most unfortunate accident that is going to require tinking back approximately 200 stitches of lace to fix.  Add another failure!

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