Here it is the start of another week, and I must admit that this past week has been a little crazy as I have been trying to get a lot of things done. Being able to see that I have been able to move projects forward has been nice so now to see what I was able to accomplish.
Work also required some of my time so that means that I wasn't able to just hide and work on my crafting but that was ok because I did see some good progress on a bunch of things before the end of the week. Being able to balance both work and crafting has felt great so now to see what the next couple of weeks is going to be like as I am starting to see a bunch of things on my calendar.
Silver Anniversary - this week I was able to add some more stitches to this piece, and it makes me feel good seeing that I have been able to move this project forward. Of course, I would have liked to get more of it done but we will see what I can get done next week.
This piece has been fun to work on and I have slowly been able to move it forward a bit at a time. Something that I was able to achieve this week was reaching the top right corner of the piece. It was nice to be able to achieve that and now to see if I can continue to work on this piece over the next few months. I have reached the 60% completed on this piece and that makes me happy because it shows that working on it one week a month has meant that I have been able to get a lot of it finished.
Little Meg Shawl - large version - here is the knitting project that I started my week working on because I was at the point that I just needed to work on the cast off to get this piece off the needles. Given there were over 570 stitches on this piece the cast off wasn't going to be something that I could do quickly, so I just decided to work on it for a couple of days and by then I was able to say that I got it finished.
I am so happy with how this piece turned out and I know that I need to get it blocked to see what it really looks like. It was nice getting this piece off the needles because you know what happens when one project is finished.
Something that I was doing while finished off this project was figuring out which shawl was going to be the next one of my needles. The next project was something that I wasn't sure how it was going to turn out but I have been having fun working on it and am looking forward to seeing it off the needles before too long.
Memories of Juneau - this pattern did call for a five bundle of yarn, but I decided that I was just going to work on it using one skein of yarn. The run part of this project is the pattern is Memories of Juneau which is in Alaska and the yarn that I am using was dyed in Newfoundland so that is both sides of the continent and that made it a little more run to work on.
This project reminds me of the Ex-boyfriend shawl, and the only difference is you can add eyelet rows whenever you want to add them. I have decided to add them every ten increases (every 20 rows) so that makes it a lot of fun to work on.
I have been able to make some good progress on this shawl given I only started it on Wednesday, and I haven't worked on it each day. I am currently at 90 stitches on the needle, and I am not certain how many stitches I will get completed before it's time to cast off this project.
Other projects - I have been trying my best to just focus on getting projects finished or at least focused on and that has made me feel so much better. I know that there are a bunch of things that I would like to accomplish over the next couple of weeks so that means that I need to work on getting things accomplished.
I hope everyone has had a good week and you have been able to spend a bit of time each day doing something that makes you happy. There have been days for me that I haven't had a lot of time to accomplish anything, but I do make sure that I at least take a few minutes to do something that makes me happy.
This coming week I hope to be able to continue to move some of my projects forward and we will see what I have to show you next week. I do know that I will have a different cross stitch project to work on and then I will see much more of the Memories of Juneau I am able to get done.
