Making some good progress

Here it is the start of another week, and I am going to stay that it has been a crazy week given the snow that we received last weekend and just trying to dig ourselves out of this mess. We are also dealing with some really cold temperatures so that isn't us at all.

Hopefully things will start to warm up here and we will be able to enjoy some time without feeling like we are going to freeze every time we go outside even just for a few minutes. For me it's been time where I can find some time after getting the work that needs to get completed where I can curl up and work on a project to see how much of it, I can get completed.

Silver Anniversary - here is the project that I picked up this week as I wanted to see how much more of it, I could get done and I am happy with the progress that I was able to achieve. Hopefully I will continue to make some good progress on it each time I pick it up.

I am now at just over 80% completed and that was so rewarding to see that I was able to achieve that this week. What I have also been able to do is making sure that I could continue to move this piece forward and getting rows and columns completed this week was really nice.

This week I was able to complete three rows and three columns and that was great. It is showing me that just being able to focus on areas of this piece helped get it moved forward. I am not certain how much longer it is going to take me to finish this project, but I must admit that I am now seeing that before long this piece will be completed and that is what makes me happy.

Argyle Sweater - here is the project that gets bits of attention when I have those few minutes to pick up something and see what I can get done. It isn't a big piece so that helps as well and just seeing that I can get colours completed on this piece has been good. I have now finished two of the four colours, and I am looking forward to seeing how much more of this piece I can get completed.

Being able to continue to move this piece forward even a little bit at a time is great and we will see when it is completed. I am not pressuring me to finish this piece quickly because it is nice to just work on it when I have those few minutes where I just want to work on something.

I would like to see if spending a bit of time over the next week or so could help me get this ornament completed. There is no pressure or not deadline and that is what makes this project so much fun to work on.

Talisman Shawl - here is the knitting project that I have been working on as I would like to see how much of it I can get completed in the next little while. I do have reasons for wanting this project moved forward quickly so we will have to see how it goes.

I haven't figure out what size that I will be making with this yarn because there are three sizes and it will depend on how big the shawl is when I have finished up using the first ball of yarn. I haven't figured out if it is going to be the medium or large shawl but at least, I know that I have enough yarn to make a shawl that I am happy with. 

Hedgerow Mystery Knit Along - for those of you that have been falling me for a while you may have realized that I really enjoy working on knit patterns by Helen Stewart (link to pattern). So, in the last couple of weeks Helen let everyone know that there was going to be a Mystery Knit Along and it didn't take me long to purchase the pattern so that I could immediately start it when the pattern is released. All I know is the amount of yarn that I need as well as the shape of the project and rest of it will start to come alive on February 12th. If you are interested in joining me making this shawl, I have attached the link for the pattern and just a heads up the price of the pattern will go up on February 12th.  

I haven't figured out the yarn that I am going to be using yet for this piece but hopefully by the time I post next week you will see the colours that I picked but we aren't going to see any progress on this shawl until the final pattern is released by Helen Stewart in March of this year.

Other projects - well, I haven't been able to work on any of the other projects that I have on the go because I have been trying to focus on getting things completed. I am trying to stay focused on the projects that I currently am working on, but we will have to see how things go in the next little while.

I hope everyone has a good week and you are able to focus on your projects no matter what they are. Being able to focus on things that make us happy is extremely important. I know that I try each day to ensure that I spend a bit of time making sure that I do something that makes me happy and helps recharge my personal battery.

English Paper Piecing - update

I have been writing a monthly update regarding my English Paper Piecing for a while and some of you may have noticed that I am not getting as much completed monthly as I was when I first started doing the updates.

I have decided that I won't be doing a monthly update until I have some progress to show you. I have been putting a lot of pressure on myself to at least make some motifs even when I didn't want to do it. The pressure to make motifs or join motifs to a project started making me not want to do any EPP and that is where we are right now. I have lots of projects that I could be working on but right now I need to allow myself to want to work on the projects instead of feeing pressured to work on something.

My English Paper Piecing projects aren't going away by any means, but I need to find the join again that I had earlier on. I will continue to have a project close by so that if the desire to work on it comes up, I will do that. So, my next update will be on the 1st of some month, but I am not saying when it is going to be only that it will happen.

If you are working on an EPP project, please share with me what you are working on as it makes me happy when I heard what other people are doing.