It is easy for one's attention to flag particularly when working on a huge piece of knitting. Most knitters are so daunted, for example, by the idea of doing 250 stitches on a single row that they would rather divide the work into several pieces, knit them separately, and then stitch them together afterward.
Contract time by mentally grouping your stitches while you work on them.
To illustrate, instead of doing (K1, K2) 125 times for a total of 250 stitches, group the stitches by fives as follows:
(K1, K2) "One", (K1, K2) "Two", (K1, K2) "Three", (K1, K2) "Four", (K1, K2) "Five", then tell yourself, "First group done";
(K1, K2) "One", (K1, K2) "Two", (K1, K2) "Three", (K1, K2) "Four", (K1, K2) "Five", then tell yourself, "Second group done";
and so on.
Your 250 stitches will register in your mind as 50 groupings (or 50 units, or 50 "stitches").
This is one way of contracting time, and you will find yourself accomplishing a lot more work in significantly less hours.
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