Made a bit more progress on my Sophie's Universe tonight. I'm not enjoying it though, and there's still loads to go, but I'm determined not to give up!
It's partly the yarn - I'd seen it done in a whirl and thought it looked good, but it's so thin that it just makes everything really fiddly, and because the pattern requires you to work into stitches from previous rows, doing it all in one colour makes it quite tricky to work out which is which. Plus I think it's going to come up really small, so won't actually be useful for anything!
And then the pattern is so intricate that it requires lots of concentration - there aren't any rows which are just straightforward and repetitive - it's all back post crochet, crochet into the stitches from two rounds ago etc.
The problem is, I know that if I have a break from it and do something else, I won't go back to it, so I have to persevere. Anyway, whinge over, it's my own fault for being over ambitious in my yarn choices when the pattern clearly says to use a different yarn! I'm definitely choosing something more simple for my next project though.