Tough Weeks and Growth

It's been a crazy week of mixed emotions and stress at my job. My colleagues now know that I'm closing one chapter and starting another professionally. With the news spreading and a deadline this coming week I felt so overwhelmed. The good news is that everyone has been so kind, and I'm thankful that I've had such a great team.

I have less than two weeks to go before I'm done with my current job. I've never been so sad to leave a job, which tells you I've been very lucky for the last almost nine years.

Ok, back to crafting. Let's start with what felt like a fail...I tried to teach my son to crochet again. He can definitely chain, but that's it. We argued about how he's supposed to hold his hands and the yarn and then he claimed he wanted his loom. He hadn't touched his loom for months. My older son is 10 years old, and I've tried to teach him both knit and crochet a few times. He actually picked up knitting for a brief time, but has to be reminded how to do everything each time we come back to it. Even the loom is problematic. Anyway, I'm hoping we can sneak one more hour in tomorrow and something will stick.

I'm still frantically test knitting. I'll post about the four projects I've worked on for one book next weekend. I have lots of knitting left on the last sweater and I have until Halloween to get it done. I really want it done a week early and there are other project that I want on my needles.

WestKnits MKAL had it's second clue released and I've barely started the first. I knew this would be tricky. I think sharing an image wouldn't need a spoiler alert at this point. Seeing others make progress and watching the videos for the third section are so tempting to steer me away from the test knitting.

Soon, Jessie of Yarn Over New York will have her mystery sock KAL and I hope to keep up with that on time (at least for one sock). I'm planning to use scraps. It was so tempting to get one of the mini skein sets to go with the pattern, but I need to stop buying yarn for atleast a year. The Christmas Advent set will be a nice way to quell my appetite. I often get yarn form Christmas too.

Then, there is Rozeta, the Scheepjes KAL that started and I'll be a month behind on it for sure, but it should still be fun. The yarn for that project is set to arrive on Tuesday (my work deadline day).

I don't have any images or any links in the post, but you can definitely find the all the crafty things I referenced pretty easily.

I'm hopeful next weekend will be more restful and I'll have lots more to share.

Happy crafting!