Finished and Unfinished Projects

I finished a knitting project this weekend, and when doing some cleaning came across an unfinished embroidery project I must have started 25-30 years ago. It is in wonderful shape and is about 2/3rds complete. I enjoy the knitting process as much as the final product, and am a bit disappointed I remember nothing about the unfinished embroidery project. Did I like working on it? Did I put it down for a reason? Who was I making it for? The mystery of the day - will I ever finish it? Will I throw it away unfinished?

I hope I remember working on the knitting project I just finished. I bought the yarn for this beautiful shawl, shown on my profile picture, in Galena Illinois on a weekend trip with my girlfriends and our daughters. She was expecting our grandson, who is now almost a year old. I knit it in the car on visits to our children and granchildren, watching the 2009 NCAA basketball tournament, and when I should have been working on projects more pressing to my everyday life. The yarn (Noro Silk Garden) was such a pleasure to knit - it was luxurious, the vareigation in the colors was so beautiful, and the pattern was challenging but enjoyable. And the knots! The shawl was complete in the early spring, but it took me months to finish the knotted fringe. That's the way it always is for me. The finishing touches are the most difficult.