Failure

 I failed. 

I failed to make my New Years Good Luck Sweater.

I've been doing it for more than a decade now, my rules kind of formed themselves, though it was increasingly hard to keep myself to them (see, last year the sweater was NOT red).

I had an idea for this year's sweater since last January, and I've had a swatch knitted. I seem to remember I even picked the yarns at one point, but I could not find that bundle, so I supposed I did not do that (picked the yarns) after all. I was rummaging my stash to collect enough yarn that might work as a variation of the original idea, I did cast on and knit for a while...

And I did not like it. I did not hated it or anything I just did not LOVE it. At the same time, I had something else on the needles. Okay, I do have a bunch of things on the needles all the time, but this one I started in December, and unlike the one I started at New Year's, I loved this one, and insted of putting it away in favor for the NYGLS, I desparately wanted to finish it. 
Also I have some stocking on some other needles, I really, really HAVE to finish. 

So, even though I am generally hard headed and stubborn, this time I felt, I am to old to have dragging on something I do not enjoy, because in my head, I want and need to do something else... After all, it was supposed to be SELFISH knitting.

So unceremoniously I pilled the needle out and frogged it. 

As for luck... I've made no secret out of the fact that 2025 was not my best year. I am not saying it was so bad, it does not matter if I make a good luck sweater or not, because it could not get worst... I thought that the year before and the universe said, "hold my beer", and proved me wrong. 

I did finish (at least the knitting of) the sweater I started not long before Xmas, and I am working on the stockings I promised months ago for someone. When those are out of the way, I will think again. I might restart the good luck sweater project, or I might just cast on for some-whatever-thing and I will postpone the New Year's Good Luck Sweater project for next january.

What would YOU do? Would you slog through it, just because yo always did? Would you have done something else? Or would you just forget about it for a while? Or?