Weekly Update

[atherleisure]

I worked a little on all my in-progress projects this week and started a new one.

1. 1897 shawl - I'm still plugging away at the trim; I'm getting close to 50 repeats finished. I'm trying to do one repeat a day on the days I go to work and two on the days I don't.

2. Cable-knit cardigan - I started the back last week and got through almost 1.5 repeats of the cable pattern. Cables are so cool. It's really funny to be knitting something where thirty rows gives you like 3" of knitting. I've been working on a sleeve during lunch at work, and I'm more than 2/3 of the way to the beginning of the armscye shaping.

3. "A Treasured Time" cross-stitch - I finished the top left section of the pattern yesterday. Now I just have the lower left section of the pattern to do. It's the smallest section of the pattern and is something like 90 x 110 stitches. It's 85% half-cross stitch if not more so it goes way faster than my usual cross-stitching projects do.

4. 1943 coral wool tricotine dress - I started this last week and made very good progress. I have two sleeves completely made up and two collar sections made up. The back of the dress is put together and the front is put together. I partially sewed the seams that connect back to front. I figure I've got about half a dozen hours of work left to finish it.

Comments

[mala_14]

I'm always impressed by the way that you work on multiple projects at once. But your strategy of a little bit of something all the time really pays off. Sounds like some great projects!

[atherleisure]

I pretty much always have a fairly plain knitting project and a sewing or embroidery project. Then much of the time I also have a complicated knitting project. Technically, I have a tatting project in hand right now, but I'm not counting it because I did one repeat of the pattern and then laid it aside and haven't been inspired to pick it up again. Does it count that I'm carrying it around in my knitting bag? Different projects serve different purposes for me, and I guess it helps keep me from getting bored with one project.

It always entertains me that I can have a project that I've been idling around on for ages, but when I get close to finished, I drop everything to work on it until it's done. It was interesting reading your post today since it sounds like you're just the opposite. Funny how people are motivated so differently.

[mala_14]

Having different projects for different moods/circumstances makes a lot of sense. I could see how it works to prevent you from being bored, too. I think what happens with me is that my favourite part of the project is figuring things out, so when it's just the little bits that need finishing off, I'm less interested because nothing new is going to be learned or tried out. But I totally get having that drive when you're close to being done because that's exciting in its own way. For me, maybe, that stage just returns after I've had some time apart from a project.