Comments on: Monday Mumblings

By: Victoria

Victoria — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:28:11 +0000

I lose my knitting mojo when I have something OTN with a deadline. I work on it so much, and then I don’t want to, but I know I should be working on that and nothing else, and so I end up working on nothing. I just have to plough through til it’s done, and then work on something I really love. I always get my mojo back though. Sometimes I think my brain just needs some time off.

By: Barbara

Barbara — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 16:32:06 +0000

I seem to have lost my mojo due to some unfortunate circumstances. I might
say that I lost more of my ability than my mojo to knit. I think I lost them on
Olive Street Road somewhere. The next time I go out I will see if I can fnd them
again. I also am looking forward to seeing your scarf in the Malibrago silky.
Would like to make one of those. Want to see what yours looks like.
Get your mojo back and happy knitting.

By: Alexis

Alexis — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:45:08 +0000

Usually when I dont want to knit, I’ll either read a book, spin (though I lost the hook to thread the roving through my wheel), or quilt. If I just focus on those for a little while, my knitting mojo usually comes back and all is well again.

By: Seanna Lea

Seanna Lea — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:41:14 +0000

I knew I was going to miss the kit, but I just couldn’t justify spending the money before pay day. Obviously I’ll have to keep some aside for it next year!

I tend to not so much lose my knitting mojo for a few days but have something else overwhelm it. So, I’ll have 4 or 5 days where I don’t want to do anything in the evenings other than read or bake or play video games. Then that will pass and I will go back to knitting with a random movie going on in the background.

By: madison

madison — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 15:11:44 +0000

can’t believe no one’s said it yet, but, mojowise: go look at some pictures of gorgeous knitting, even if it’s something you would or could never do in a million years. look at some finished objects in some awesome, awesome yarn. a lot of us started knitting in the first place because we wanted to create stunning objects of beauty, right? and we ended up making a garter-stitch scarf. but that was all right because were *knitting*. i know when i see really beautiful pictures, my fingers twitch. i bet yours do, too.

also: feeling guilty about it only makes it worse. it’s like wanting to take a vacation without your husband/boyfriend/whatever. you need some time, everyone does, absence = heart fonder, etc. so relax and come back when you’re ready.

(i noticed that someone’s comment said you’d gotten your mojo back already. if so, well, disregard the advice. save it for next time, i guess. and i’m glad you got your groove back, if you did.)

By: Deborah K

Deborah K — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:09:41 +0000

I have lost my knitting mojo on occasion, but usually it’s when I have really lost interest or are just not crazy about a project underway. What I do then is to put that aside (for a while) and look at some knitting stash/books/patterns that excite me…then it comes back, but unfortunately – I also usually just want to chuck the boring project and start the new!

Good luck at Sock Summit, try not to work too hard (may you sell it all and not have to crate it up to send it home!). I and thousands of other knitters wish we could go too –

And TRIPLE ditto on Wollmeise, Numma & Bugga.

By: Beth

Beth — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:50:23 +0000

My knitting mojo has been missing for more than 6 months. I’ll pick up and pick at a small project here or there, but I’m no longer rushing home to dive into a project like I used to. My brain decided to roam elsewhere for a while and I know it will eventually find it’s way back around (it has to, the two sock clubs I’m in are still growing the stash even though I’m not knitting it down any).

By: JulieM

JulieM — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:55:39 +0000

Sheri, sometimes knitting just needs to take a break, too. It always comes back when it is ready!

“Numma Numma/Bugga/Wollmeise knitting wells will be filled enough for us to be able to actually STOCK those lines, and not just have them visit briefly for 10 minutes, every month or two!” Oh, boy — I absolutely, wholeheartedly agree!!!!!

By: Theresa in Italy

Theresa in Italy — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:04:34 +0000

I periodically lose my knitting mojo, too. Usually it’s because I’m tired of the current project but have a deadline to meet—the baby blanket I’m making for my husband’s niece, for example; I’m really tired of looking at it but the baby is due next week!—so I can’t pull my usual trick of switching to something else. (This is why, despite my best efforts at monogamy, I can’t help casting on multiple projects.) It never lasts too long. Looking at patterns and playing with the stash helps get me back on track. And meanwhile I catch up on my reading!

By: Doris

Doris — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 04:05:11 +0000

I have had times that I have lost my knitting mojo…but it usually doesn’t last long. It usually happens when I am way over-tired. I had a burning desire to knit over the last couple of weeks and did virtually no knitting (except for one “boob Hat” that I knit for a friend recently diagnosed with breast cancer…my sister did a breast cancer walk a few weeks ago and I knitted boob hats for her team so when my friend told me of her diagnosis I knew that she needed a hat too).We were too busy getting a room renovated before my oldest came home for a visit, needing a bed. And then we were getting ready for my younger son’s graduation party, which was a ton of work but even more fun. But, I am going away on Saturday and have packed a very large tote of knitting, including my gorgeous skein of Wollmeise, and I know that I will get a bunch of knitting time over the next several weeks…thank goodness.