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

[tephra]

TV if it is the sort of knitting I can do without looking at it much, audio books if I have to see what I am doing.

Bribery. For ever X rows on the project I don't want to work on I can do X rows on the one I really want to be knitting instead. I did this when I had a sweater that had gotten monotonous and a shawl I really wanted to work on. I took how many stitches I had in a row on the sweater and figured out how many rows that would be on the shawl. If I wanted to knit more rows than that on the shawl I had to go knit some on the sweater first.

[notyourwendy]

I think I am going to promise myself a cake if I can get this thing done my the end of the month.