Maybe I'll blame Ravelry; it seems a convenient scapegoat for my growing knitting queue. There are so many great patterns out there and every time I get on Ravelry I add something (ok, five somethings) to my queue. The only problem is that I feel like I have the same WIPs hanging over me all the time. I never work on them, heck--I don't even like some of them. But they linger on in knitting limbo, hoping and waiting for me to pick them up again. But I, my friends, am fairly fickle. Odds are, if I shove you into the closet, you aren't ever going to get finished. Its sad, but true.

And so I joined the Clean Slate by 08 group in Ravelry and I'm going to try hard to get control of the WIPs--or rather WNIPs (works not in progress) as well as finishing the few things that are actually going on the needles so I can start 08 with a clean knitting slate and no WIP guilt.

So here they are:

WIP #1. Rogue.

This one is certainly going to be finished. I'm making good progress and am still happy with it. I'm ready for the upper cabling portion under the arm, then I'll divide for the front and back and knit the hood. Then I'll have to graft in pattern, which scares me but I'm not going to knit the whole thing only to leave the hood ungrafted.

WIP #2: Georgetown Socks

These are also nearly complete and I do actually like them. They've only lingered this long (what--like 5 months??) because I had so many other things going and then they were stuck in a storage box during the move.

I love the look of the pattern on these and it was so easy to memorize. I love socks like that!

WIP #3: Crinoid Shawl.

I'm guessing I'm about half done with this one. Its probably the only one of these thats going to give me any grief when it comes to getting everything done. I'm only about half done with it and the rows are loooonnngg...I think 400 stitches or something like that. I'll probably save it until last and end up rocking back and forth on the couch from knitting hours of garter stitch. Its a good tv watching knit though, so maybe that will prevent any impending hysteria.

WIP #4: Green Moss Shawl.

I know when to say uncle--there is no way I can finish this by the end of the year. Luckily, I don't want to. I like the shawl but I'm just not in a mood to knit lace a the moment and I'm tired of this one hogging my lace chart magnet set and a row counter. For as little work as I have into this, I can redo it during the summer, when I actually knit lace. RIP!

WIP #5: Twisted Flower Socks

I sized up the needle for the leg portion and it was a bad idea. It looks like junk and will be ripped. I can't believe I've put it off for this long.

There are also a few other things sitting around waiting for a good rip. Some socks I experimented with as well as the sadly fated Rainbow Socks. RIP RIP...

Since I don't knit for anyone for Christmas, I think this is totally doable. Not even half a sweater, half a sock, and half a shawl?

Do you have knits that linger over you? Do you like to think that you'll finish them one day or do you just hate to rip your own hard work?