Check-In Post January 16th 2022

[badly_knitted]

Hello to all members, passers-by, curious onlookers, and shy lurkers, and welcome to our regular daily check-in post. Just leave a comment below to let us know how your current projects are progressing, or even if they're not.

Checking in is NOT compulsory, check in as often or as seldom as you want, this community isn't about pressure it's about encouragement, motivation, and support. Crafting is meant to be fun, and what's more fun than sharing achievements and seeing the wonderful things everyone else is creating?

There may also occasionally be questions, but again you don't have to answer them, they're just a way of getting to know each other a bit better.


Today's Question: No question today.


If anyone has any questions of their own about the community, or suggestions for tags, questions to be asked on the check-in posts, or if anyone is interested in playing check-in host for a week here on the community, which would entail putting up the daily check-in posts and responding to comments, go to the Questions & Suggestions post and leave a comment.

I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[celli]

Hi all! I'm a new member. I'm doing a project where you learn an embroidery stitch every week and I caught up today by using front stitch, back stitch, and whipped back stitch on a sampler. Then I switched to my current cross-stitch project. I don't know how much progress I made because it's all long rows of black right now and I forgot to check where I started, but at least a couple of rows!

[badly_knitted]

Hello, and welcome. Happy to meet you!

That sounds very adventurous! I cross stitch, but I'm useless at other embroidery stitches, I pull too tight, so I'm very impressed that you've learned all that in a day!

Well done with the cross stitch. Those long rows of one colour can get really tedious. What are you stitching?

[celli]

It's a Schitt's Creek piece that says "Simply the Best" - here's the work in progress (along with the embroidery sampler) and here it is on the site I got it from.

[badly_knitted]

The cross stitch is going to be awesome once it's finished, but all the black has got to be hard to do!

The other embroidery looks really tricky. Great message, but stitching the actual heart... Looking forward to seeing how you get on with it. For a learning project it seems quite complicated. You're a lot braver than me, tackling that!

[darkcedars]

Hello! Sounds like a good learning project.

[celli]

It is! and hi. :)

[peaceful_sands]

Hi and welcome. It sounds like you're doing well on both projects.