False Starts

This is the current state of my silk knit.  At one point, it looked like this, which I actually loved.  There just wasn't enough silk to complete the project, and I have no more to spin.

I tore it out and started again; this time, it was going to be a scarf.  I tried and passed on three or four different patterns, before settling on Strangling Vine.  It should have worked--gorgeous pattern, proper yardage, proper...oh, yeah.  The weight.   My silk is a bit finer than fingering weight.  Even with quite small needles, I wound up with the world's longest scarf, which I suspected would be the world's longest scarf long before I got up the nerve to confirm it.  I re-adjusted the pattern, started over, and lost my patience one and a half colors in.  I've never had to fight with a yarn or a pattern, and I have this peculiar philosophy that  things forced rarely work right.  I'm not going to force this yarn into something it apparently doesn't want to be.  I tore it out for the final time and it's sitting in the corner until I figure something else out.  I have an idea percolating.