I've been able to knit and follow a pattern since I was about six. My mother taught me, starting me off on scarves and progressing to more complex patterned jumpers. I bought the wool for this one about 18 months ago. A colleague at work - an accomplished knitter - challenged me to a knitting race. We both chose patterns and wool and we both got off to a good start.... and we both put them in bags and forgot about them so, neither hers nor mine is finished. But now I've remembered it...

However, I must come clean and say that this isn't the worst slow knitting case I'm responsible for - I have a complicated cable pattern cardigan that I've been knitting for about 20 years. Every so often I find it, do a few rows, and forget about it again - I've been knitting it for so long that the style has been in and out of fashion several times - hehehe.