Deterrent Question

I have a quick question for you. I know, I know, I don't normally post on Sundays. But since I've been slacking on getting anything out there, I thought I should get to it.

What is the one major deterrent for you when starting a new project. I know some people really struggle with picking yarn from their stash or choosing a pattern. So what is it for you?

For me it's this:

Trying to turn a beautiful skein of yarn like this:

Into a useable cake and I get yarn barf that needs to be untangled. So frustrating. It makes me want to just take a scissors to it. 

Casting On

I made it to the new month without casting on a new project so I'm very excited to start something new today! I chose this partial skein leftover from a gift knitting project to knit something for myself.

It's a nice, soft blue. Almost a Tiffany blue but muted with speckles in soft brown. As its a smaller skein since I used part of it already, my plan is to knit some shortie socks for the summer.

I'm thinking this is begging to become Rose City Rollers. I have 80 g of yarn remaining which should mean I have 347 yards remaining. That's IF I did the math right and it's entirely possible I did not. But that should mean I have plenty of yarn to knit some shortie socks. 

Here's to hoping that I will get some knitting mojo back with a fun, quick project like this.