Motivation help?

[notyourwendy]

I have just recently discovered that I'm not so good at large projects.  Unfortunately, I've this learning moment came to me in the middle of a large project that has a deadline and I'm having a really hard time motivating myself to work on it.  I'm at the point where it doesn't seem like my skein is getting visibly smaller or my project visibly larger and I've been doing the same pattern over and over and over and I'm bored with it.

I swear, when this blanket is done, I'm going back to shawls and hats and socks.  I even have the projects all lined up but I can't touch them because I know if I start on something else, this stupid blanket will never get done.  What do you all do to work through times like this?

Comments

[dhae_knight_1]

N'thing TV. Or, in my case, TV-Shows on an external harddisc, hooked up to my TV. Last time I did this, I inhaled the entirety of Criminal Minds in under 3 weeks, because my TV automatically moves on to the next file in the folder, so it usally goes something like this; ep. ends, but I'm in the middle of a round, so the next ep starts before I get around to stopping it, and then, oh well, since it's already running I'll do just *one* ep more. Conversely, when I'm done with a round the ep's still running, so I might as well continue knitting.

Also; I knitted a dress during fall with some pretty complex increase-patterns, so I actually had to write up the number of rounds and cross them off, just to get the increases right. Did wonders for my motivation to say; "I'll do 10 rounds today." Not to mention looking back and seeing I'd actually done 15!

Tl;dr version? Find something to do so you're not *just* knitting and find a way to track and/or visualize your progress.

[notyourwendy]

TV on DVD is doing the trick for me right now. Well, that and being sick with a head cold so that I'm no longer really capable of keeping track of progress.