Heading to a finish and some progress

Here it is the start of another week with things that do need my attention, so it is going to be an interesting week. The weather has been crazy again here as we just had another heat wave so it's been a little difficult to do a lot of things.

Mini Magic of Books - here is the project that I worked on last week as it was one of  my WIPGO calls for July, so that meant it needed to get 500 stitches in on it before I could put it down. Instead of doing just the 500 stitches I work on the project for a week so get more of it moved forward and that makes me happy.

This project is one of my larger projects, so it is taking some time to get it done but at least I am seeing progress on it even if it's just a bit at a time. When I picked it up, I decided to work on the darker colours as there are a lot of those stitches in this piece, so getting some of them done would help. 

It is now time to put this piece down as it's time to pull out the other WIPGO call for July and see how much progress I can make on it. I hope to have some good progress on this other call, so we will see what happens this next week.

Spindrift Shawl - this last week I was able to make some good progress on the shawl, and it felt really good. I was able to get all the plain section completed and have almost finished the eyelet section of the shawl. It does knit up quickly until you get near the end when you have over 300 stitches on your needle. This past week I did end up putting it on my circular needle so that I had room to work on it.

This week I hope to be able to spend a bit more time working on this shawl as I know that the end is getting closer so seeing it finished would be nice. Finishing this shawl means I am going to have to figure out another shawl pattern that I would like to make. 

Other projects - I didn't work on any other projects this past week and that is because of how hot and humid it was out. Hopefully this week the weather will be just a bit cooler so that I can work on moving some projects forward.

If you are dealing with the extreme hot weather, I hope you are staying cool and hydrated. This coming week I will be working on my second WIPGO call for my cross stitch project and working on getting my shawl finished.

Hope everyone continues to find that little bit of time each day to do something that you enjoy doing. If things go as planned, I should have some progress to how you next Monday. Have a good week and try and stay cool.