A week of different projects

Here it is the start of another week, and this last week was a little different for me. I didn't focus on getting one cross stitch project completed instead I worked on two different projects. 

Pandemic - of course this piece was the one that was part of the focus for this last week, and I was able to get a page finish which made me very happy. I now have 7 more pages to do on this piece so we will see how it goes.

It has felt really good being able to continue to work on this piece and see more of it done. I am going to focus on this piece for another week and hopefully I will see more progress on it again. It feels so good being able to move this piece closer to a finish, but I do know that it is still going to be a while before this piece is finished.

Summer Keep - here is a project that got pulled out this week and got a bit more attention. This is the project that I work on when I have a few minutes, so it doesn't get a lot of progress but at least it gets moved forward a bit at a time.

At least this year I have been able to see quite a bit of progress on this piece and hopefully it will be finished before long as when I look at the piece now it doesn't look like there is a lot more to go on it. Hopefully over the next couple of months I will be able to get this small piece finished and be able to start working on Winter Keep which is the companion to this project.

It has been fun working on this piece again as I hadn't worked on it since June so seeing a bit more progress on it makes me feel good. It also brings back memories of when this was started which was in 2005 at the Creative Needlework and Sewing Festival. 

Forage Shawl - here is the knitting project that has been my focus piece since I started it on September 1st. It was a lot of fun to work on as it used 7 mini balls of yarn to make the shawl. 

At first, I wasn't sure if I was going to like how it would turn out because I don't normally do things like this but after working on it for a little while I started to enjoy how it was turning out and before long it seemed to move forward very quickly. I think for me having the mini balls of yarn made this project fun to work on as I thought of each section of the shawl a mini finish so that helped move the piece forward quickly.

I have now finished knitting the shawl and all that is left to do is sew in all the ends and then block the shawl and it will be ready to wear. I am looking forward to having this shawl finished as it is going to be a fun shawl to wear.

Ex-boyfriend Shawl - here is a shawl that I have been working on but there haven't been any pictures taken of it until now when it is finished. This shawl has been a project that has been living in the car as something that I work on a little bit at a time when we are out for a drive or away on a trip.

I am not certain how long it has taken me to knit this shawl because sometimes it gets a couple of rows completed and other times when we are out, I can add quite a few rows to it, so it has been fun to make. This past week I was able to spend a bit of time on it and by the end of the week I was able to finally cast it off so now the ends need to be sewn in, and this shawl also needs to be blocked.

Other projects - I did start a new shawl yesterday but there isn't much to show yet. Other than the start of the shawl, I haven't worked on any other projects so that is good because having four projects worked on in a week is quite a bit. 

I hope everyone is finding that bit of time each day to do something that you enjoy doing. It does help to recharge your personal battery so that you are available to help others. If things go well, I hope to have some progress to show you next week, but we will have to wait and see how things go.