A finish, a start and some knitting

Here it is the start of another week and yes, a start of another busy week for us. I know that I should have some time to work on my crafts a bit each day but not as much as I have been doing in the last little while.

I am happy that I have been able to find a bit of time each day to get something moved forward even if I haven't bee able to see a lot of progress on things. Hopefully once things slow down a little, I will get back into a routine and I will start to see more progress on the various projects again.

Florence Law - here is the piece that has been my focus. I was loving working on it and I made sure that I was able to find the time where I could just sit and work on it.

My goal was to get this piece finished and early this past week I was able to put the last stitches in on her. It was a lot of fun working on this piece and of course, I am enjoying working on the various red samplers.

I still have quite a few red samplers to work on but after finishing this piece I decided to work on a different colour sampler so of course there was a new start.

Elizabeth Garrod - this piece has been one that I have wanted to start for the last couple of months but I wanted until I had Florence Law completed before I put the first stitches in on this piece.

This piece so far is stitching up relatively quickly, so I hope to have it finished before too long. This sampler is being done in a dark green, so it is a little different than I have done before but I am enjoying working on the piece. We will see how long it takes me to get this piece finished as there are a less stitches in it than Florence Law. Only time will tell how quickly it works up and a lot of that is also how much time I have available to work on this piece.

Baby sets - this past week I decided that I needed a bit of a change in my knitting. I have been working on a lot of large projects and I wanted to work on something a little smaller. This week I have been knitting some baby hats and mitten sets and I have been enjoying doing that. This is all I got done this past week and I still need to put the ties in the mittens. 

These are items that don't take me too long to complete so it is nice to have something that works up quickly and I can see them done. Hopefully I will be able to get the ties done for the mittens this week and then the hat for the green set. 

Other projects - I haven't been working on a lot of other things and part of that is because I haven't had a lot of time to focus on things. I have enjoyed being able to pickup the projects that I have been doing as it makes me happy to see some progress on something.

I hope everyone is continuing to find that little bit of time each day to recharge your own personal battery. It might only be 10 or 15 minutes but at least that bit of time helps you focus and have the energy to help those around you.

Have a good week and I hope to have a bit of progress on something this coming week. It might not be a lot of progress, but I will just have to wait and see.

 

A little more progress

Here it is the start of another week and yes a week where I have lots of things that I would like to accomplish. It is going to be a busy week for me so will see what crafting I can get done. This last week I did spend some time crafting and am happy with the progress that I made on the various projects. I did end up working on more projects than I thought I would, but it still means that I made progress.

Mini the Forgotten - this piece came out for a little while, but it didn't get as much attention as normal. I at least worked on it for a while on Saturday, but it just wasn't calling me, so it was time to put it down before I started to make mistakes. This week I will see if I pull it out or not as I think maybe I need a bit of a break from it. I think I will wait and see how this week goes and if I pull this one out or not. It's still a long way to go before this piece is finished.

Florence Law - here is the cross stitch piece that got the most attention this week. I am looking forward to seeing this piece finished as it is something that I have been enjoying working on. 

This past week I decided that instead of working on bits of each of the rows that I was going to try and work on getting more of the rows completed. It has been interesting watching this piece come to life. It started out slowly and now I am finally starting to see the areas of the design getting done. It would be nice to get this piece completed so that I can frame it, but I am going to miss working on it.

Having something like this on the go makes me happy as I enjoy seeing the progress on it each time that I pick it up. Now that I can see the end in sight, I guess it is almost time to figure out which project will be getting the attention after this one is finished. 

I know that I have projects that I could be working on so many one of those will come out for a while and maybe get some attention. Besides all the projects that I would pull out I am also thinking that I may have a new start soon and it will probably be another sampler but this time it won't be red.

Diagonal Garter Shawl - this piece wasn't going to be worked on very much this week, but it came out a couple of times. Yes, I did have a webinar that I was watching so it came out that day and it came out again another day when I just needed something simple to work on.

It is a nice piece to work on and I can see progress on it quickly right now. I am still working on the increase section so that helps me see the progress quickly on the piece.  

This week I think this project will get a bit more attention but will have to see how much more of it I get done. It would be nice to get to the end of the increase section as then I will be working on the main section which is what takes the longest to do. I guess, I will just see how things go this week and if I can get all the increases done or not.

Wedding Shawl - this piece was once again the main focus of the 30 minutes of knitting most days. I did miss a couple of days this week but given everything else I am happy with the progress that I made on this piece. The piece now measures 39 inches and I think I am going to make this shawl 60 inches long, so I am getting closer to a finish which makes me feel good.

If I measured things right and also counted correctly, I think I have around 14 more patterns to go on the piece before it is finished. Not sure how long that is going to take me to finish but being able to see it done would make me happy. This should be the focus piece for most of the week but will just have to see how things go.

Other projects - I haven't been working on a lot of other things other than my English Paper piecing which will be a separate blog.

I hope everyone is finding that bit of time each day to do something for yourself and recharge your personal batteries. Being able to find that bit of time each day for yourself does help so much as it means we have the energy to help other around us as well as being able to get things done that we want to get done.

Have a good week and hopefully next week I will have some progress to so you. I am not sure what I will be working on but at least seeing progress on something would be good.

Progress for the week

Another week has come and gone and now to show you what I have been able to get done. I have been busy with work so that means that I haven't been able to get as much crafting done as normal. Now to see if I can at least make more progress on things moving forward. 

It still feels great that I have been able to make progress on things and now to see if I can continue to make progress on things.

Mini the Forgotten - I have been able to make some progress on this piece this week. I continue to try and move this piece forward. It might not get a lot of attention but at least I have been able to move it forward slowly. I am continuing to try and get some of the dress completed as well as fill in some of the background. The background is slowly moving forward so that is great. If I can continue to get more of this piece done over the nice little while I would be very happy.

Florence Law - here is another piece that I have been trying to make some progress on. I didn't get quite as much work on this piece this week as I would have liked but at least I have been able to get things done. I have been able to get at least a few stitches in on each of the rows so that is great. 

Of course, I didn't get as much done this week as I had hoped but at least I know that I have continued to move this piece forward. It is fun working on the letters and words and motifs a little bit at a time. I haven't decided if I am going to continue to work on a row at a time or just work on the various sections as I want to work on.

Hopefully next week I can spend a bit more time working on this piece as I would like to see how much of it, I can get done. I don't think this piece will be done by the end of the month but that doesn't bother me as I would just like to see it done quickly. If, I can spend some time working on it this piece more this week I might be able to see some good progress on it. 

I have got over 50% of the piece done so that is good and now to see if I can continue to move it forward and get it done. We will see what I can get done this week as maybe things will slow down enough that I can enjoy some more stitching time.

Wedding Shawl - this project seems to have been a bit of a challenge for me over the last week. I have been trying to move this project forward but keep running into little challenges with it. Of course, the biggest challenge is when you make a mistake on one row, and you don't discover it until you have completed another 4 or 5 rows. This issue happened today so I didn't get as much progress done as I would have liked so that didn't make me happy.

I am going to continue to work on this piece as I would like to see how much more of it I can get done. I measured it part pay through this week, and I was at 31 inches so that is good. If I can spend some time to working on this shawl during the next week, I might be able to see more progress on it or at least I hope that I can.

I would like to see if I can get at a few more inches done before the end of the so that means that I need to work on that over the next week.

Diagonal Garter Shawl - well this project was going to be something that I didn't work on very much, but it became the escape when I needed something that was easy to work on.  I love how quickly this piece is working up right now and I know that is because I am still working on the increases but it's still nice to see the progress on this piece.

Now to see if I can keep this project as something that I don't work on much for a little while. I do have plans to work on it for a few days in early May but other than that I would like to see if I can put it aside for a little while and focus on getting more progress done on the Wedding Shawl. 

Other projects - I have been trying to make little bits of progress on my English Paper piecing which has felt good.  It would be nice to continue working on projects as I would like to see some good progress on things before the end of the month.

There are always other projects that I would like to work on, but I am trying to keep the number of things that I work on down each week. Being able to continue to see the progress on things makes me feel so much better so will see what this coming week is like.

I hope everyone continues to find that bit of time each day to do something for yourself. Making sure that you have that bit of time does help a lot as it ensures that you will have the energy to be there for others as well as yourself each day.

Have a good week and hopefully I will have some progress on at least a couple of the projects to show you next week. 
 

Progress, start and a finish

Here it is the start of another week and now to see how things go this coming week. It has been an interesting week as I have been pulling projects back out will also trying to continue to move projects forward that I have had on the go for the last little while. 

I have also been busy doing other things outside of crafting so that has meant that I haven't had quite as much time to work on things as I would have liked.

Mini the Forgotten - yes, this piece came back out this week as I want to continue to move it forward.

I didn't get a lot of time to work on this piece this week but at least I was able to move it forward again. It is rather difficult to see a lot of the progress as I worked on filling in some of the single stitches in the areas of her dress. It is something that I have wanted to try and do so now to see how it goes moving forward. I am trying to move the background up more as well as will in the dress so that I will be able to move the entire piece up before too long.

Florence Law - here is the piece that I only started a week ago and I have been trying to make some progress on it. 

This project is working on quickly and that is probably because it is just one colour and I have been able to focus on getting sections done on it. As it is a reproduction sampler, I am also making sure that if there are slight changes to the pattern, I can catch them. I hope that I can continue to move this forward in the next week.

On this project I have been trying to work each border row so that I know where all the words and letters will go moving forward. I have got to the top of the design now, so it is just a matter of willing in all of the areas. Now that I have the sections figured out, I think I will work on filling in the various sections instead of bouncing around like I have been doing.

This week I am going to be trying to focus on moving this piece forward again as I would like to see that I have been able to get closer to having this piece completed. It is currently almost 36% completed so if I can get to around 70% done by the end of this week, I would be very happy but only time will tell.

Diagonal Garter Shawl - this project became my knitting focus piece and that is because I started this shawl a few years ago and figured it was time to work on getting it finished. I discovered this piece a couple of weeks ago and figured it was time to pick it up and work on it. When I picked it up, I had 15 inches to knit on it as well as all of the decrease. This project became the piece that I worked on for the 30 minutes a day as I wanted to see if I could get it finished before too long.

Doing the 30 minutes of knitting on a project a day does help get the project moved forward even if it doesn't seem like a long time. Having that time where you can just sit and knit does mean quick a bit of progress on it. So yes, I finished this project this past week and loved how it turned out. Yesterday, I sat down and got all the ends also sewn in, so I just need to block the piece and it's totally done.

Now that I finished one version of the Diagonal Garter Shawl, I decided it was time to get another one on the needles so after deciding on which colour yarn I was going to use it was time to get my hubby to assist in winding a ball of yarn. As you can see, I didn't get very much progress on this piece last night but at least it is started and it will be the project that I work on when I want to keep my hands busy but need to focus on something else like watching a webinar or such.

This project will not be my 30 minutes of knitting a day for now but at least I have it available for when I need to pick up something for even those few minutes.

Wedding Shawl - here is the project that has come back to being the 30 minutes of knitting project for the next little while. There is no progress picture this week because I only got 30 minutes of knitting done on it. This should be getting 30 minutes a day this week and I hope to see some really good progress on it. Of course, 30 minutes a day normally means around 6 or 8 rows so hopefully I will be able to continue to do that.

Other projects - I haven't worked on any other projects this week as I have been trying to focus on keeping the number of things on the go to a minimum so that I can see more progress on a few items.

I hope everyone has a good week and you continue to find your time each day to recharge and focus on taking some time for yourself. I hope to have some progress on a few things next week but time will tell.

 

Moving things forward and a new start

Here it is the start of another week and yes, some different projects came out for a change this past week. We were busier than normal this last week, so I didn't have as much time to craft but I still found a bit of time most days to do something. Part of last week was the take time away from things so crafting did get missed one day.

Pandemic - here is a project that I haven't touched since September 2022, so it came out for a bit of time this past week. It felt nice to work on one small area and try and get it moved forward. I didn't get much done on the piece but at least another 500 stitches got added and now to see when it gets picked up again. I don't think it's going far away but there are other projects that I also want to work on.

Florence Law - This past week it was time for another new start, so I picked up and started Florence Law 1899. Of course, this is another red sampler that was on my list to start so I picked it up and started it on Friday. I hope that this project will be a fairly quick project to do but time will only time given other things I am doing. This project will be roughly 7 inches square when it's completed so just a nice size. This week I am going to try and get some more stitches in on this piece and see how it goes.

Diagonal Garter Shawl - here is a project that has finally come back out. I was going through some of my yarn stash a couple of weeks ago and discovered this shawl. I had been working on this three or four years ago and it just got put aside so I decided it was time to get it out again. Before this week I had about 15 inches to knit before I start the decrease for the end of the shawl. By last night I was at 14 inches knit so hopefully it I continue to work on this shawl this week I might be able to start the decrease of it which would make me feel very good. It is nice when you can find a project that you had on the go and pick it up and see good progress on it quickly.

Other projects - this past week no other projects got touched but that doesn't bother me. Part of the week was set aside as a recharge my personal batteries and do some of the other things that I enjoy doing. No, there weren't craft related but I am feeling like I should not be able to focus on getting things that I need to get done.

I hope everyone continues to take that personal recharge time as it is very important. Sometimes we even need to change up how we do our recharge as that can help a lot. Just making sure that we find some time to do something for ourselves is very important. This week I will see what I work on but I do know that I will be taking that little bit of time for myself each day as it does make me happier when I have the energy to help other around me.

Have a good week and I hope to have some more progress on things to show you next week.