A finish, a new start and some progress

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.
 

A week of different projects

Here it is the start of another week, and this last week was a little different for me. I didn't focus on getting one cross stitch project completed instead I worked on two different projects. 

Pandemic - of course this piece was the one that was part of the focus for this last week, and I was able to get a page finish which made me very happy. I now have 7 more pages to do on this piece so we will see how it goes.

It has felt really good being able to continue to work on this piece and see more of it done. I am going to focus on this piece for another week and hopefully I will see more progress on it again. It feels so good being able to move this piece closer to a finish, but I do know that it is still going to be a while before this piece is finished.

Summer Keep - here is a project that got pulled out this week and got a bit more attention. This is the project that I work on when I have a few minutes, so it doesn't get a lot of progress but at least it gets moved forward a bit at a time.

At least this year I have been able to see quite a bit of progress on this piece and hopefully it will be finished before long as when I look at the piece now it doesn't look like there is a lot more to go on it. Hopefully over the next couple of months I will be able to get this small piece finished and be able to start working on Winter Keep which is the companion to this project.

It has been fun working on this piece again as I hadn't worked on it since June so seeing a bit more progress on it makes me feel good. It also brings back memories of when this was started which was in 2005 at the Creative Needlework and Sewing Festival. 

Forage Shawl - here is the knitting project that has been my focus piece since I started it on September 1st. It was a lot of fun to work on as it used 7 mini balls of yarn to make the shawl. 

At first, I wasn't sure if I was going to like how it would turn out because I don't normally do things like this but after working on it for a little while I started to enjoy how it was turning out and before long it seemed to move forward very quickly. I think for me having the mini balls of yarn made this project fun to work on as I thought of each section of the shawl a mini finish so that helped move the piece forward quickly.

I have now finished knitting the shawl and all that is left to do is sew in all the ends and then block the shawl and it will be ready to wear. I am looking forward to having this shawl finished as it is going to be a fun shawl to wear.

Ex-boyfriend Shawl - here is a shawl that I have been working on but there haven't been any pictures taken of it until now when it is finished. This shawl has been a project that has been living in the car as something that I work on a little bit at a time when we are out for a drive or away on a trip.

I am not certain how long it has taken me to knit this shawl because sometimes it gets a couple of rows completed and other times when we are out, I can add quite a few rows to it, so it has been fun to make. This past week I was able to spend a bit of time on it and by the end of the week I was able to finally cast it off so now the ends need to be sewn in, and this shawl also needs to be blocked.

Other projects - I did start a new shawl yesterday but there isn't much to show yet. Other than the start of the shawl, I haven't worked on any other projects so that is good because having four projects worked on in a week is quite a bit. 

I hope everyone is finding that bit of time each day to do something that you enjoy doing. It does help to recharge your personal battery so that you are available to help others. If things go well, I hope to have some progress to show you next week, but we will have to wait and see how things go.