Check-In Post January 24th 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.


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[badly_knitted]

5 meeces completed, 5 more knitted.

The rest of the meece mugshots have been taken, and the meeces are partway packaged, in their padded envelopes and with the address labels attached. Tomorrow I'll have to seal them in, ready to go...

[smallhobbit]

That is very exciting.

[badly_knitted]

I think the meeces are excited too!

[wiseheart]

Woo-hoo!

[badly_knitted]

Hopefully they will get posted this week. We shall see. I'm a bit under the weather at present, but still hopeful.

[peaceful_sands]

Hope you feel better soon. Take care. x

[badly_knitted]

Thanks, I hope so too!

[peaceful_sands]

I don't know about anyone else by mugshots for travel documents never look like the photographee in real life - real life is always so much more awesome :)

[badly_knitted]

Hopefully that will be true of the meeces too!

[smallhobbit]

Recently, one of the craft bookshops I follow had an offer for a knitting book of 'free book, just pay postage', so not totally free, but in this case a decent sized book for a cheap price. 'Knit me, Dress me, Love me' it's called - knit a toy bear/dog/rabbit etc, plus make the clothes as well, with a great selection of clothes. The book arrived a few days ago, so I shall soon be knitting from it, because I know someone who will appreciate it :D

[wiseheart]

That sounds exciting!

[smallhobbit]

I think it will be fun.

[badly_knitted]

Mini Hobbit is going to be very happy, I think!

[smallhobbit]

I'm hoping so!

[peaceful_sands]

That sounds like an excellent deal - and an interesting book. I hope you enjoy whatever you make from it.

[smallhobbit]

Thank you. There should be photos.

[wiseheart]

I've made the main photo mats for the original baby book, but I'm not happy with the outcome. I'll have to remove the sticker numbers and replace them with something less... garish. We'll see.

[badly_knitted]

Good luck with getting them how you want them.

[wiseheart]

Let's hope so.

[smallhobbit]

You've got time to try something else out.

[wiseheart]

Oh, definitely! This is the original book that I'm planning to put away for the time someone with artistic sense is expecting a baby, so I'm not in any schedule.

[peaceful_sands]

I'm sure you'll find just the right thing.

[wiseheart]

Oh, I assume I will. It's just annoying to unmake something you've already finished and hoped to have out of your hair.

[althea_valara]

I WON YARN CHICKEN!!!

Unfortunately in the process, my cake of wound yarn collapsed and got tangled, so I spent time last night and this afternoon untangling it. That means I didn't finish the base of the bag until about 45 minutes ago. I'm now about five rounds into the body. Still using the Cascade 220 until it runs out, it doesn't matter if I start the stripes mid-round.

[peaceful_sands]

Woo hoo!

[smallhobbit]

Hooray!

[badly_knitted]

Yay! That's great!

Not so good that it got tangled, I had that problem myself Sunday night, trying to unravel huge tangles. So annoying.

[peaceful_sands]

I finished another jigsaw - I'll try to post a photo this evening.

The good thing about finishing the jigsaws is this is real decluttering because I'm currently doing ones that even though I'm enjoying them, I won't keep to do again - I'm saving those ones for later!

I need to make a decision about one on my shelf. It's by one of my favourite artists, Schim Schimmel and I think it's this one shown here which the more I think about it is just terrifyingly lacking in variety of colour etc to make assembling a challenge but not a frustrating impossibility!

[smallhobbit]

Congratulations. And very satisfying!

[badly_knitted]

Well done with the jigsaws.

Oh, I LOVE those pictures. Never knew the artist's name though. I don't have any of the jigsaws but I have a chart I printed out for one of them to do as a cross stitch. I'll never do it, too many colours and stitches, but I love the picture. I used a computer program to turn it into a cross stitch chart MANY years ago.

[peaceful_sands]

I love his art - I had a few postcard pictures in my late teens/early twenties stuck on my wall when I was studying, but after I’d been working a few years I took a trip overseas and I was killing some time walking around the airport before my flight home, when I saw a bookshop and two of his books ‘Dear Children of the Earth: A Letter from Home’ and ‘Children of the Earth …Remember’ were on a display inside. I was amazed because I hadn’t seen anything in the intervening years so I bought both straightaway. Since then I’ve bought another couple of books by him as they came out. I’ve often looked at his website with a view to buying a picture for the wall but haven’t done it yet.

[badly_knitted]

I'll have to look him up online to see more of his pictures. Maybe look on ebay for the books.

[wiseheart]

It is a beautiful picture, though, so well worth the effort, isn't it?

[peaceful_sands]

I might have to give it a try.