Plans, plans, plans

I have too many unfinished projects. 

Originally, I thought the idea of knitting on something for 7 to 14 days would answer my need desire to not get bored with the thing.  The problem, however, is that then I forget what it is that I was doing and I keep making stupid mistakes.

For example, I am working on a sampler scarf.  It is from Lion Brand.  It is called "The Road Scarf" and you can find it here.  I am using Knitpicks Andean Silk.  Well, the pattern said to cast on 40 stitches.  So, I did.  It is a sampler and scarf.  I did two patterns and had started the third when I decided that the silly thing was WAY to WIDE to be a scarf.  So I ripped it out and started over, casting on 32 stitches. 

Everything is going along smoothly except that given my self-imposed (self imposed be critical here) timeframe, it was time to switch to something else.  So I went back to Zachariah's hat.  In reviewing the pattern for Zachariah's hat and what I had knit so far (it was mostly done), I decided that the thing was butt ugly and needed to be frogged, not a simple task since the stupid thing was in stripes, with decreases and increases and my decision to carry the opposite colors up the side rather than cutting and knotting. 

So I am back to the scarf, knitting away on it at a meeting at church, where, by the way, several people said "gee, I wish I had brought my knitting and/or crocheting."  It was a ridiculous meeting, lasting 2-1/2 hours and could have been over much quicker but the speaker talked  i n c r e d i b l y  s  l  o  w.  We could have been out in 90 minutes, tops.  So then, I discovered that I had messed up the pattern (was that God telling me that I should be paying attention to the speaker?) and had to frog everything that I had done.  Last night at my knitting group, I discovered that I was off by one stitch, then two.  Duh.  so, now the thing is wider in the second pattern that it was on the first.  Blechhhhhhh.