  I posted this to urlLink the knitting group's messageboard , but I thought it might be good to post it here too, especially since I've been such a urlLink slacker when it has come to urlLink knitting and urlLink updating this blog lately. Basically, what it comes down to is that I have urlLink issues about working in urlLink plain stockinette stitch .
Lately, I have noticed that it takes me far longer than necessary to complete pieces that are to be done in plain, one color, stockinette stitch. I breeze through color work and cables... Hell, I even breeze through some lace. But, the problem is that I get so bored with st st that it takes me roughly three times as long to complete a project that uses it than it would if the project was full of cables and eyelets. For instance, I'm working on this item where one side is gingham and the other is st st. I started and completed the gingham side in roughly 8 knitting hours total. However, it is now taking me three to four weeks (with practically no knitting hours because I have no interest in the st st) to get more than a few inches worked on the stockinette stitch side.
Normally, this wouldn't be much of a problem, except the the item is to be given as a gift in April. Am I hitting some sort of stockinette stitch rut that is well known among other knitters, or is this something unique and quirky that I've managed to get into all by myself? - Nicole, who is hopelessly bored of plain stockinette stich. 
