UFOs. How they do vex me! Don't worry, I'm not one of those "I want to believe" people who sit around with tinfoil hats on their heads. I'm talking about crafting UFOs. Un-Finished Objects. You know, those projects you start with a hiss and a roar and all sorts of good intentions, but just never seem to get finished. After a lifetime of crafting, I've got a dossier full of them, let me tell you, and they "fool and confound me"* just like the flying saucer kind.
I promised myself a while ago not to start any new projects until I'd finished my UFOs. And I have been diligently working on the quilt for The Young Lad -- I'd intended to have it made in time for his move from cot to big-boy-bed, but that was three years ago, and I'm still not half way done. But as for the clothes for myself, or the cushions and curtains for my sewing room... well, lets not even go there... And then, after making myself that promise, you know what I went and did? Only promised Grandpa a pair of hand-knitted socks for his birthday -- which was in February, so they are rapidly becoming UFOs themselves.
BUT the library Gods smiled on me recently when Seed Bead Chic fell into my hands and gave me the inspiration I needed to finish a UFO that had been dogging my life for, oh, only about ten years already! This project was a necklace for a dear friend of mine. Not only did I keep changing my mind about what to use for the pendant, whenever I tried to work on it, nothing turned out at all the way I wanted it to, and I threw it aside in disgust.
Finally, it is a UFO no-longer. I actually, really and truly finished it! I even took a picture to prove it! What do you think?
I like it so much, I'm even thinking I'd like one myself. (Uh oh. Is that the sound of another UFO approaching?)
* To paraphrase Kevin D. Randle author of The UFO Dossier
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