Well, I'm a bit stymied.

I don't know whether to start another sweater-type project (the Zelda pullover? the Dolman-sleeved sweater out of the most recent IK? the Cul-de-Sac vest?) or whether to plug along with what I have going right now, and figure I'll start something new once I finish something that I have on the needles right now.

The four "active" projects I have are:

the Lion Brand Homespun "Prairie Stripes" afghan, which is what I've been working on the most lately.

the Kilimanjaro Kat shawl, which I've only done a few rows on in the past couple months.

the Art Nouveau socks, for which I have pretty well decided that I am going to gut up and do the rose on the heels in intarsia. (I could duplicate stitch it but my duplicate stitching looks like crud, as I think I've said before, and I don't think I'd be satisfied with it).

the "Happy Stripes" socks, which would be the quickest and easiest thing to finish at this point. (I am in the middle of the gusset decreases on the second sock).

oh, and I have another sock project, that probably qualifies as "inactive" because it's been over a month since I worked on it: the Canal du Midi socks.

I also have two long-stalled, "inactive" projects: the Zig Zag socks (yes, I WILL finish those someday. I WILL. And besides, I've put so much work into them now I don't have the heart to cut my losses and rip them). And I have an afghan somewhere made out of a fluffy Bernat yarn in a feather-and-fan pattern. It bored me but like the socks, I don't have the heart to rip it out.

Hey, every knitter needs some unfinished projects hanging about, so that her heirs - whoever they may be - can look at them and either think "wow, I should finish this, Auntie Erica would have wanted me to" or "gee.. I don't knit but maybe if I give these projects to my friend she will find someone who can finish them and use them."

Because I've been on the receiving end of unfinished projects myself - to whit, the Shawl With Udders, which I hate to say, is still unfinished. I've also been the recipient of needles that could no longer be used by their orignal owner. (No wonderful yarns have I inherited yet, but that may happen someday.)