UFOs -- we come in peace

I've been feeling guilty lately about the number of UFOs among my projects (UnFinished Objects, for the uninitiated). I  get all excited about new things to try, and put down the old things.  So in a brief moment of sanity, that happened at 4 in the morning as I couldn't sleep, I began going through bags of UFOs, seeing what I could easily finish and pat myself on the back over.  And I came across this sweater, started 2 years ago, right before we left Missouri. It got packed in boxes for the movers to bring, and I never got into the boxes to see what was there.  So I pulled out the rest of the yarn (Caron Country), flipped through my pattern binder for the pattern, got out my Hiya Hiya size 8 circs and started picking up stitches for the trimwork.  The body and both sleeves were done; all I had to do was sew everything up and do the blackberry stitch on the front and bottom hem.  Did I say "all" I had to do?  Man, I'm glad I learned to "read" my knitting, because that blackberry stitch was getting to be a pain!  And voila!  2 days later, I don't have to be afraid of little green men on this one!  Needs to be washed and blocked, but that's another day's post.  I haven't yet made it to the toy store to buy the jigsaw-shaped puzzle mats to do blocking.