Life's not only too short to knit with ugly yarn, it's

too short to knit projects you aren't happy with.  I have ripped out two shawls in progress in the last month - one a  knitalong shawl I was making and it had to go due to complete boredom with the pattern so far.  It had many endless rows of stockinette stitch interspersed with a bit of yo/k2tog and another odd made up stitch and from the last clue it didn't seem that was ending or changing any time soon.  And another completely lovely black crocheted lace shawl that was done in lace weight yarn and each row becoming more annoying than the next because I can't really see what I have done. I then went to the stash and found some black angora/wool worsted yarn a yarn rep had given me and am looking for a more interesting pattern, lace, but not so complicated that I get eye strain from using black yarn.  I have been needing a black shawl since we moved to town and the one I'd had from some time in the late 70's had disappeared.  No notion yet what it'll be though.  I have been in "working on UFOs" mode for a few weeks and am working on squares for an afghan that I started last year - there are 64 in all and I am at 35.  The cables section.  Not my favorite - I appear to be into crochet, or lace knitting or even fair isle knitting at the moment.  I guess I should skip these for now and do some others first.....But for now - except for the lace shawl - I am trying really hard to finish up a UFO.  (I've ripped two things - that means I can start one new thing, right?)