Slow Progress

Konecny Logo - May 11th

 This past week I wasn't able to spend a lot of time working on crafts but that is fine.  I was at least able to work a little bit on making a few more baby hats.

More baby hats

The baby hats were the big project that got worked on this past week and now I am sitting with 12 more hats ready to be finished. I need to sew the ends in on the hats and then they are ready to go into the bag and be ready for being given to the hospital.  It feels so good when I can see that even when I haven't had a lot of time to focus on crafting that I have something that I can show for it. 

This weekend the heat also meant that I really wasn't in the mood to be sitting and holding either yarn or floss so I just took some time to relax.  It did feel good being about sit outside once again and enjoy some of the fresh air instead of having to be stuck indoors.  The heat and humidity was really bad this weekend as we had temperatures around 30C and with humidity around 40C but if you were able to be in the shade it wasn't too bad.

This week I will see what crafting I will be able to find some time to do.  It would be great if I could work a bit on the Konecny Consulting logo as I would like to get it completed.  I also know that baby hats will probably be worked on a little bit at a time so I do have things that I would like to get worked on.  Now I just need the time where I can sit and work on them and not have all the other items that need to be done on my plate.

The pile of work is still around so that is what needs to get done first so now it is time for me to go and get some of that done.

Progress for the week

Purple v-stitch afghan - May 23rd

This past week I wasn't able to get a lot of crafting done but I did find a bit of time to enjoy the sunshine and work on an afghan on holiday Monday. 

This afghan has been sitting and slowly been worked on for the last couple of months.  This was one of the projects that I was working on between all the cross-stitch projects that I did. The v-stitch afghan is a very simple afghan so it means that I can pick it up and work on it while I have a few minutes and need to do something with my hands.

In the last week I was able to get it from half done to completed and that was wonderful.  It doesn't take me long to make an afghan but when I am just working on it a few minutes at a time the progress seems extremely slow. 

Purple v-stitch afghan - finished - May 23rd

Besides the afghan I have continued to work on the baby hats and those make me happy as well.  This weekend we were able to give a friend of ours around 80 hats for the hospital.  He does the actual delivery to the hospital as he works right across the street from it.  He did the delivery yesterday for me and they were very happy to receive them as they were running low on hats.  This makes me feel so good because it lets me know that the hats are really appreciated.

Our friend was also telling us that two of his staff had babies and both of them have received hats that I have made. Seeing the smile on our friend's face made me happy because it lets me know that people do appreciate the hats.

This week I am not sure what crafting I am going to be able to accomplish but I am thinking that I may try to either work on another baby afghan or more hats. 

There is a lot of work that requires my attention this week and considering it is four day week it means a lot of things to try and get accomplished in less time.  Off to getting things done.

Where did the week go?

Konecny Logo - May 5th

I would really like to know where the last week went because after looking at the cross-stitch that I was able to complete this week I really wonder what happened.

Konecny Logo - May 11th

I do know that part of last week I was busy trying to get some of the other projects off my desk so that meant that I wasn't able to focus on crafting in the evenings. Originally at the beginning of the week I thought it was going to be a week where most evenings I was able to craft but it didn't work out that way.

When I was able to find a little bit of time to craft it was enough to work on a baby hat for a little bit and that was about it. I was also able to make a bit of progress on a baby afghan so that also makes me feel a little better.  I forgot to take a picture of the afghan so that will have to wait until the next post that I do.

This week looks like it is going to be another extremely busy week for me so I am not sure how much crafting I will be fitting in.  I am thinking that when I do have the time to sit and relax I am going to try and work on a couple of baby hats.  The baby hats are something very easy for me to work on and I can see some results quickly when doing them. 

I will see what this week is like and I know that when I have a bit of time I am going to enjoy the crafting because this last week I noticed how much I valued even the half hour or so some nights that I was able to get.

It is now off to gt the work done so that maybe tonight I can find a bit of crafting time before the rest of the demands on my time are back.

Found some time

Konecny logo - April 21st

 Now after a couple of crazy weeks of trying to get things ready for the Art Show and also a busy week schedule I was able to find a little bit of stitching time this week.

With some juggling and making sure that I was able to get work done during the day I found some time where I could stitch some evenings.  The first project that got the attention was the logo for our business.  I wanted to see how much stitching I could get done on it this week and I was able to get all the name outlined so now I am just filling in the areas which is nice. 

Konecny logo - May 5th

The logo is now one colour so that means it works up pretty quickly as I don't need to figure out when the colour changes or any of that.  Also now that I am just filling in areas I don't even need to look at the pattern so that makes it even quicker to do. I am not sure when this project will be done but I would like to ensure it is done before the end of May.  This week I am looking forward to seeing if I can get a bit more stitching done on this piece. 

Monarch Butterfly - May 8th

Of course, considering all the pieces that I finished lately I figured it was time to have just one more start. The start is a pattern that I am designing so it is going to take a bit of time as I am changing colours as I stitch.  This pattern is based on a photo of a Monarch Butterfly.

This project was started Friday evening after it was all kitted and I got a bit of time then as well as a little bit of stitching time on Sunday. 

It makes me happy to see that I have been able to get some stitching done.  The stitching is done in the evenings when the work has been completed and a lot of evenings this means there if I get stitching time I am normally sitting down for around an hour of it before going to bed. 

This week I am not sure how much stitching I am going to find but I hope to be able to get some done.  I do have stitch night this week so that does mean that I have one evening where I normally can get quite a bit of stitching done so will see if that happens this week. 

Now it's time to get the work done that is on the agenda for today and then I will see if there is any time left for stitching later in the evening.

Slow week

Art Show - April 29 - May 1st

This last week wasn't a week to get a lot of stitching in as I had another project on the go.

The project that I was working on was finishing up all the framing for the Art Show that I was participating in this past weekend. It was great having this many in the show this year as last year I had two pieces.

Throughout the Art Show I heard a lot of really nice comments which made me feel good.  All the hard work of getting all of these pieces done paid off.   One piece also found a new home and that as Growf which I finished earlier in April.

Blackwork Dragon - April 28th

Once I got all the pieces ready for the show I was able to sit down and start another project.  This is Blackwork Dragon by Jennifer Aikman-Smith and it goes along with the Blackwork Knight and Blackwork Princess that I have done.  I didn't get a lot of time to stitch as this was actually started on Thursday.  I took it with me for the weekend to see if I could find some stitching time but it came home with maybe two stitches done on it.

Now that all the pieces are framed and I have finished the Art Show I am going to try and focus on getting a couple of the other pieces finished that I have on the go.  The Konecny Consulting logo will probably get some attention soon as well as Bluenose Dime.  I would like to get both of these pieces completed so I am thinking that is what I am going to be focusing on for a while.

It is now time to get some work done as it is the first working day of the month so it means it is time to sit and get all the invoices out to the clients.

Tonight I hope to find a little bit of time to craft as between work and getting all the pieces framed I haven't done much for the last couple of weeks. 

Moving forward slowly

Konecny Logo - Apr 17th

This past week there wasn't a lot of time for crafting so I decided to focus on just one project when I had the time to sit and stitch.

Konecny Logo - Apr 21st

Our company logo is slowing starting to appear and I am happy being able to work on this project.  It is something easy to work on and I am going to be very  happy to be able to hang it in our office once it is done. I was able to finish up the word "consulting" and that is the only other colour that is on the design.  This means that I should be able to make some progress on this piece when I can find some time to work on it again.

Other than working on this project I did make a couple of baby hats but that was all the crafting that I was able to find time for.

The focus over the weekend was actually sitting and working on getting a few of my cross-stitch projects framed.  This is what takes the time as you have to ensure the piece if absent of any folds before you start the stretching of each of the pieces.  The other fun part is figuring out which frames I was going to use for each of the projects so that is what took some time. The stretching of each piece takes some time to ensure that they are straight on the mounting board.  Because of the frames that I used I had to use some thinner mounting boards and that meant a bit of a challenge but at least we were able to get all of the stretching done.

I hope to be able to have pictures of all the pieces that we have been framing by next week.  A couple of them have already made it into the frames so I am  hoping that the rest of them will be finished up within the next couple of days.

This week is another busy week for me so I am going to see if I find some time to craft.  If not that's fine because I know that it means that I have been getting work done. It's time to try and get some work done so that I can continue to work on the framing this evening and then see what the rest of the week has in store.

A finish and some progress

Growf - April 9th, 2016

This last week I was able to find some stitching time some evenings and that made me very happy.

Growf was the first project that got the attention and that was because I wanted it finished before the weekend.  I am happy to say that Thursday evening I was able to finish the project and now it is waiting to be framed.  Growf was a quick and fun project to work on as it didn't use a lot of colours and is only around 5 inches so it isn't big either. Of course, once Growf was finished it was time to pick up something else to see if I could make some progress on it.

Growf - April 14th, 2016

Once Growf was finished I had planned to pick up a project that I had on the go but then sat and realized that I needed something simple to work on for a while. Most of the projects that I currently have to work on are bigger and are a lot of colours and take quite a bit of concentration.

What this meant was it was time for another start and this start is something that I have wanted to do for a while and it is only two colours.  The project that got started on the 15th was the Konecny Consulting Logo.  This is the logo that we have been using since our business was incorporated which was in 2009.  I decided that it would be nice to have a version that we could hang in our office so converted into a cross-stitch pattern last year.  It has been sitting and waiting to be started and now finally I have been able to put a bit of time into the project.

Konecny Logo - April 17th, 2016

This is another hopefully quick project because it is only 3 inches by 10 inches so will see when it gets enough attention to get finished.

Sugar - March 17th, 2016

This weekend I decided that considering I had a bit of time that I would pick up a project that I started in January and it has been getting little bits of time since then.  This is a cross-stitch of a Bichon Frise that I took a picture of last year.  I am trying to get this project worked on but it is a larger project at around 10 inches square.  It is going to be taking me some time to get project completed but it was nice having a little bit of time to actually put a few stitches in on it.

Sugar - April 17th, 2016

Of course there are a lot of other projects that I have started that are waiting for some attention and I am hoping to get back to some of these other projects in the next while as well.

It feels good knowing that I have been able to make some good progress on a number of the projects that I have on the go. I don't have a lot of time to work on these projects so I try and get the most out of my stitching time.   There are times when the simple projects work extremely well and those are when I know that focusing on a lot of counting and colour changes isn't going to work.

I hope to be able to continue with my stitching as I have been enjoying seeing the progress that I have been able to make on some of the projects that I have on the go.

This week will see how things go and will see if stitching is part of the evenings.  It's now time to get some work done and then hopefully there will be some stitching time in the evenings.