Immortalize your unfinished knitting projects

Finally, there’s something useful we can do with our unfinished knitting projects – you know, the ones we meant to get back to but know we never will. Admit it, you have them too.

I have six inches of the back of a silky sweater knit on tiny needles with the most incredibly luxurious, soft, microscopically skinny yarn. I knit feverishly for three weeks to get those six inches. Three more years and I would’ve been done. I have most of a freakishly large sock. I have half of a lovely twisted two-yarn hat which I would have finished except I ran out of the Jazz mohair yarn and the store closed because the owner moved to Georgia to be with her Russian internet boyfriend.

These projects – and yours too – don’t need to take up space and make us feel vaguely guilty forever. Perhaps they are destined for something greater – like art!

“Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest originally set out to explore the sky-high rates of mental illness and suicide among Asian Pacific Islander Women. Asian Pacific Islander American women have the highest rates of suicide in the country in a statistic that seems to be widely unpublicized and often disregarded. The unfinished knitting collected represent incomplete intentions, women’s work, “spinning a yarn,” and loneliness. During the show, Kristina uses the knitting pieces to represent “unravelling” women and even unravels some of the pieces during the show. These knit pieces may also be displayed as part of an art installation later in the run.“

Details here: Wong Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest