July 14, 2009
Here is most of a sock. The pattern is the super-popular Jaywalker from Ravelry, and it is so easy and fun, but it is also taking 69 eternities to do, and I am getting a bit burned out on it. It’s the first sock of the pair, too, augh. If you click through to flickr you can see where I made the weird screw-up that I do where I start knitting all the heel flap stitches backwards: they get all tight and I have to do them as ktbl instead of knit stitches, and it looks slightly weird. However! This does have the distinction of not having giant holes where I picked up the gusset stitches, and that’s the first time I’ve accomplished that, having knit two pairs of slightly holey socks prior to this one. Still, though: my feet are sooooo big and that means soooooo much god danged sock left to make, and the needles are so tiny and I’m afraid I might be running out of yarn. So, knitters and crafty people: how do you combat project burnout?

Here is most of a sock. The pattern is the super-popular Jaywalker from Ravelry, and it is so easy and fun, but it is also taking 69 eternities to do, and I am getting a bit burned out on it. It’s the first sock of the pair, too, augh. If you click through to flickr you can see where I made the weird screw-up that I do where I start knitting all the heel flap stitches backwards: they get all tight and I have to do them as ktbl instead of knit stitches, and it looks slightly weird. However! This does have the distinction of not having giant holes where I picked up the gusset stitches, and that’s the first time I’ve accomplished that, having knit two pairs of slightly holey socks prior to this one. Still, though: my feet are sooooo big and that means soooooo much god danged sock left to make, and the needles are so tiny and I’m afraid I might be running out of yarn.

So, knitters and crafty people: how do you combat project burnout?

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