Monday, October 28, 2024

A little bit of progress

Here it is the start of another week and this week I am going to see if I can make some progress on a couple of projects.

Last week was very busy for me so that meant that I didn't have a lot of time to pick up my crafting and work on it. During the week I was at a conference so that took quite a bit of my time and then I had a bigger impact to my life as my mom passed away on Friday. So, crafting just wasn't something that I wanted to do over the weekend, so I took some time to just do the things that I wanted to do and basically that was just do all the little things.

Let Flowers Grow - this got a little bit of attention as I was able to finish all the leaves on the sides of the design. It is a nice piece to work on and with some of the sections being repetitive and easy to do it meant that I would work on those when I wanted a bit of a distraction over the weekend.

I do hope to be able to pick up and work on my cross stitch this week as it was something that my mom also enjoyed doing. Being able to see some more progress on this piece would be really nice so I will see how that goes this week. I haven't finished the bottom border yet so that might be something that I try and get done.  Then the top border is just the reverse of the bottom border.

Little Meg Shawl - I was able to pick up and knit a few more rows of the shawl which is good. I now have about 20 more rows to go to complete this shawl, and it has been really nice to work on. Having something that I have enjoyed working on has been good. 

My goal for this week is to have this shawl finished by the time I write my next blog at the beginning of next week. Just seeing that I have been able to do that would make me happy. You can't really see the pattern of the shawl right now given it is bunched up on the needle.

Other projects - I haven't picked up any other projects over the last week as I didn't have much time. Hopefully this week I will be able to at least find a bit of time each day to do a little bit of crafting.

I hope you remember to make sure you take time to recharge your personal battery each day because it does make a big difference. Even when I was very busy over the last week, I did find time to sit quietly for those few minutes that I had to just do nothing, and it helps.

If things go well this week, I hope to have some progress to show you next week on both projects that have been my focus.

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