When I first read up on round robins, I remember reading that one of the chances that you always take when you participate in them is that you might end up with a pattern that you don’t want to stitch for one reason or another; the most common reason for being that you don’t like the theme that your round robin partner has chosen.
Unfortunately, that has now happened to me. I didn’t really think it would be a problem: After all, round robin patterns are relatively small in size and I figured that if I tried, I should be able to find something interesting about any pattern, whether I liked the theme or not.
However, last week when I finally received one of the round robins that I had been waiting for I was immediately put off by it. It is a crudely drawn self-designed pattern consisting of only 5 colors.
Though I have put about 2 hours into it in total, I realized it was going to be a very simplistic and boring stitch about 30 minutes into the design. Therefore, those two hours have been two very excruciating stitching hours! The pattern really isn’t too big and I think if I can sit down and do it, it shouldn’t take me more than 15 hours to stitch, but how do I find the ambition?
Right now, I am going to try and stitch on it for the first 30 minutes of my stitching time each day. Once the 30 minutes has passed, I will put it aside and stitch my own things. I don’t know if it will work, but it is the best solution I have at the moment.
However, since I am actively soliciting opinions and suggestions, this week’s Stitching Blogger’s Question is:
What do you do when you have some sort of obligation stitching to do, but don’t want to do it?