What's your oldest piece of 'work in progress'?

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I was looking for something to knit and so needed my mum's old knitting pattern box for inspiration.

Needless to say, we couldn't find it (well, she died over 10 years ago and I haven't looked for it since) but I did find a box of WIP knitting amongst all the empty lego boxes and children's old school work.

I have never seen it before in my life. Obviously, I have, but I can't remember either buying or starting it.

I haven't knitted since I left home in 1987 so I guess it pre-dates that.

Are you as bad as me?!

This is making me feel better!

I too have a longstanding patchwork project. I bought all the fabric with the intention of making it as a wedding quilt for my sister. Her first marriage ended and she was on her second before I cut a single piece. Now the top is finally pieced and patched but the wadding and backing are sitting in a box unattached to the top and have been for months. Perhaps it will be finished in time for one of the DDs weddings (they're both under ten!)

I have lots of projects that I didn't finish when I was a child. I got into cross stitch when I was 10 but I actually find it too boring to finish. I have a tapestry I was making for my dad when I was 9 that I spot occasionally (always forget where it is, see it and go "oh yeah").

I'm getting better since I started knitting, definitely my craft.

Oh, this makes me feel so much better. I've got a xstitch I started in 1994 ish. Just got it out again recently and finished it last night! (Well, apart from cleaning and framing it, but I'm still counting it as a victory!)

I have an embroidered tablecloth that was started in about 1935 - obviously not by me!!!
It ground to a halt as the threads that were used became obtainable during WW2!!

My mil started a tapestry when admitted to hospital with pre-eclampsia when expecting dh. She finished it about three years ago when he was 35.

starfish

we have a winner - and quite a story!

are you going to finish it?

Should we start a thread to encourage each other to finish off our UFOs? Do we even want to now, fashions change?

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/arts_and_crafts/1957073-CHALLENGE-14-Craft-Projects-in-2014?

this is a good one- I hope you all join in!

Oops, sorry, hadn't seen that

I don't know, given my record so far, if 14 projects in 2014 is even close to feasible. 1 project in 14 years is more like it!

Guilty as charged! A few years ago I found in a bag on a door a sweater I began for ds1 when he was a toddler. He is now 23 (years not months). Not long before (I found the bag) I had knitted a sweater for my niece's child - exactly the same pattern and colour, and had no recollection of the first one. And we had moved house, so at some point I must have unpacked and hung it on the door.

A few months ago I got to the bottom of my stash (really sorted it through, possibly so I could add to it, but anyway ....), I found a sweater for myself begun before I had the DC. It's beautiful yarn, nicely knitted (so far, if I may say so) - but I think it's too tight for me now, in a size4 I am unlikely to be again. It's in a style I'd still wear. I'm going to have to restart it.

Tonight I am ripping out a summer top I finished a couple of years ago. It's some task. I need ot make it longer. I don't have enough years left to finish to all, truly I don't.

That's enough of the confessions from me.

I've also got a patchwork begun by my grandma about 1950. I do want to finish it, some day.

Typo alert. Sorry. Not size4, just size. I was never a size 4 beyond about 10 yyrs perhaps.

BasketzatDawn, I was trying to imagine how very tiny you must have been

i think if we all put our bits of patchwork together we'd actually get one decent seized piece.

Mind you mine is squares (because my mum took and completed my hexagon one) so it wouldn't fit in

Zing. I did a bit when it was first given to me but the threads were never made again and the sorts available new do look different - its a very twisted thread with no equivalent

Also it is absolutely hideous!!

But I still keep it!!