Cardigan Back Done and first up on the UFO pile

I finished the back of the cardigan Saturday night.  I didn’t manage to get any knitting done on Sunday, except for the cast on row for the left front.  Tonight is supposed to be movie night if I get my act together and get a few things done and dinner on the table early enough.

I love knitting this cardigan.  I want to plow on ahead and finish as soon as possible.  However, since the pile of unfinished projects is ginormous, and I also want to be able to wear all of those sweaters, I need to do some finishing. 

Now that I have finished the back of this sweater I also have to finish one of the sweaters in the  UFO piles.  The idea is that I will do the finishing before I finish the next piece of this sweater, using the  cardigan as a kind of carrot to encourage me to get something actually finished.

After I finish both of the front pieces, I will once again force myself to finish something else before moving on to the sleeves.  I am not going to be absolutely strict.  I can start knitting the front of Lilac Serenade before  I finish the UFO, for example (did I say tonight was movie night?!?) but I have to finish the UFO before I finish knitting the left front.

It is all about motivation.

The first finishing project will be this pullover I started in February.  I called it dreaming of spring, although at the time it was in anticipation of spring-to-come and now it is in memory of spring-past.  The yarns are colinette and, for those who did not read the sewing blog, I will update all the details when I finish the sweater, which I intend to get started on tonight.