help me, fellow knitters!

Jul 5, 2007 at 10:32 AM
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and crocheters. = )

i have a post planned about my new sewing machine and the fun of learning to use it, but i seem to be having trouble getting my ducks in a row as far as taking and uploading pictures and sitting down at the computer to write a post. so that's coming up for anyone that cares. for now, i need all my knitters and crocheters out there to send me some motivation vibes, cause i just don't seem to feel like picking up and finishing (or starting) my stuff! i've been almost done with my fluttersleeve top for like a month now (all i have left is two and a half sleeve pieces), but i just don't ever feel like picking it up. i cast on like a half a dozen times for a camisole seester and i are going to knit at the same time, and i really need to frog my half a row and do a gauge swatch, but that's not thrilling me wither right now. what is wrong with me! i'd blame it on the excitement of the new sewing machine (which i would lurve some name suggestions for) but i don't think that's it. i was feeling this way before mymr.jonjon so sweetly surprised me with the singer. and since i can sit on the couch and knit but i have to set up the machine to use it, i don't think they're really competing for the same time slots in my little life. i've just misplaced my needle arts motivation. = ( help me find it please!

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I don't know...seems like you are pretty normal. I abandoned my sewing machine for two sticks and yarn. But you're right, they don't compete for time. I say go ahead and sew and the knitting bug will come back. Since you're doing a knit along with your seester, you maybe want to set up a time when you will work on only that so she's not feeling put out.

lol! I do that all the time! I sew, crochet, knit, cross stitch and quilt. I only have all these hobbies because I get bored with one and move on to the other for a while. I've found what helps when I need to get motivated to finish or make something is to look around for an inspirational pattern or something to rev me up. Either that, or just wait for the need to come back. I guess I'm no good as a help to you, I just recently tossed a cross stitch project in the trash because I couldn't handle that there was too much of the same beige color in one spot. I held on to it for atleast 7 years hoping that I'd feel like finishing it! Hopefully you're not as bad as me. :-)

i usually look up other people's FOs on flickr to get me revved up. or i look up the pattern i am working on to see what other people have accomplished. seems to work for me! i know how it can be with a sewing machine. my bf gifted me one for a birthday and i just can't swing it. i'm not a sewer!

thanks for all the suggestions! i actually worked on a sleeve a little day before yesterday, so i think i'm getting back into it. hopefully soon i'll have some finished objects to show off.

You would think I'd be able to be of some inspiration to you, but unfortunately (though I've been knitting quite a lot recently) I'm somewhat in a knitting funk myself, due to being completely bored with making everloving golf club covers. *sigh*

Oh, and I agree with HobbyZu....next time you need some inspiration, troll the internet or the knitting mags for something you really, really want to make. Of course, then you'll wind up with like 20-something unfinished objects like the rest of us....so maybe entertaining yourself with the sewing machine isn't so bad!

help me, fellow knitters!

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