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

[james]

I third (or thirteenth) the TV! Then I'm not looking at the blanket and seeing it not get bigger. Another thing that helps is accepting the fact it won't get bigger anytime soon and bargaining with myself 'do four rows on the blanket, then knit on project C.' Unless there is a deadline for the blanket, it will still get done but I get the satisfaction of *finishing* things.

Also, another great coping mechanism: don't start large projects. ;-) (I only make baby and lap blankets anymore! I can't stand large ones. If I need a big blanket, I make a quilt!)

[notyourwendy]

Right now I've gone and acquired a head cold, so I'm knitting mechanically with a blank stare on my face and not tracking my progress. Then, when I look down and an hour's gone by, suddenly it looks like I've done a huge amount!

And oh yeah, no more big projects for me. :) Learned that lesson.