Here it is the start of another week and looking out the window, I would say it was either late December or January not early November. I think someone is playing a very mean joke on us we had our first snowfall yesterday and not certain how much we got but I head somewhere between 2 and 4 inches (5 and 10 cm). For November and us that is a lot of snow and it's the most snowfall ever for the 9th of November.
Unleash the Butterflies - here is the project that got some attention over the last week. It was nice to see that I could move this project again and I am slowing starting to see the piece come to life.
This past week I decided that I would work on the colour that had the most number of stitches left to go so that was black. When I started the week, I had 8,742 black stitches to go on this entire piece and at the end of the week I now have 6,830 black stitches remaining. I was able to move black from the highest number of stitches remaining to 4th highest number of stitches left. It feels good being able to move this piece forward like I have been able to do.
Next time I pick up Unleash the Butterflies I may pick up the new colour with the highest number of stitches left and see how that goes. Seeing this piece start to come to like makes me very happy. It is now going to be going away until December, but we will see what I can get done then on it.
Little Meg Shawl - large version - this week I was able to make a bit more progress on this shawl. It takes quite a while to get a row done so that means that I don't get lots of rows completed each time I pick this project up. I am trying to get it finished before too long, so I have decided that I am going to try and get at least a couple of rows done each time I work on it.
A couple of rows doesn't seem like a lot of progress but this week I have started to see some the shawl continue to grow which is good. Being able to spend some time working on this shawl a bit at a time is starting to pay off. For a while I was having a challenge picking up this piece but now, I am starting to see progress on it again.
Of course, as I am working on this project, I am also trying to figure out what the next project is going to be. I haven't decided the next project yet as I want to ensure that I can get this one completed before I really focus on figuring out the next project. The next shawl that I work on isn't going to be as large as this one so that I can see progress on it a little faster.
Toque - here is the other knitting project that I have been working on a bit at a time. It feels good seeing that I have been able to make more progress on this as well. I had hoped to get more of this done this past week but there is no schedule for when this needs to get done which is good. Hopefully this week it will get a little bit of attention as I would like to see if I can get this one off the needles and another toque cast on.
Knitting toques or mittens is a great way to use up the odd balls of yarn that you have. I am someone that does have quite a few odd balls of yarn so working on toques is helping me use some of these balls up. I am not certain how many toques I will knit over the winter months but at least I will have some to donate by the end of the winter which is good.
Other projects - I haven't worked on any other projects this past month and part of that is I have been trying to focus on keeping the number of projects on the go down so I don't feel overwhelmed. This coming week I might try and work on my English Paper Piecing a little bit, but we will see how things go.
I hope everyone continues to find that little bit of time to do something that you enjoy doing. Being able to continue to get little bit of progress on something each days makes me happy. I might not have lots of time to do anything but even those few minutes moves something forward.
This coming week I hope to be able to make some more progress on things and there is going to be a different cross stitch project that will get some attention. I am looking forward to this next project so we will see how much time I have to work on it.
Hope everyone has a good week and I hope to have some more progress to show you next week.
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