Check-In Post February 1st 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]

Same as yesterday, 5 more completed meeces and 5 more knitted.

I'm using a yarn that's white and several shades of blue, combining it with various blues, pinks, red, and purples.

The ones I've been sewing up are using a similar yarn, but in shades of purple and pink with white. A couple of the pinks I've used it with haven't worked too well, but I couldn't tell until they were knitted, so... *shrugs* I have a couple of weird-coloured meeces.

[wiseheart]

Well, the weird ones will make people admire the non-weird ones all the better! *g*

[yarnofariadne]

I'm sure they've got character :D

[peaceful_sands]

Perhaps weird like beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

[medievalrosalie]

I'm sure they're still cute!

[froodle]

The weird ones are the best kind!

The piccies I promised

[wiseheart]

For your viewing delight, here are pages 6 and 7:



And the same pages with their respective flaps opened:



The quality of the book is a bit uneven, but this is the best I can come up right now - before I'd start on the originally planned baby book that I've come to call The Thing of Beauty (TM) and that doesn't have an intended recipient just yet. Which means I can take my time with it and re-do things that don't work out until I'm fully satisfied.

Re: The piccies I promised

[badly_knitted]

How lovely!

That shouldn't matter, it's handmade, it has character!

Re: The piccies I promised

[yarnofariadne]

Lovely!

Re: The piccies I promised

[peaceful_sands]

It looks lovely in the pictures - I'm sure the recipients will be very pleased with it.

Re: The piccies I promised

[medievalrosalie]

That looks really great! I'm sure your family will love it!

[annofowlshire]

I’ve cast on my semi-traditional “Imbolc* jumper” (actually a hooded waistcoat this year). The ongoing joke is that if I start a jumper this late in the season, certainly that means winter will end!

*Or Candlemas or Groundhog’s Day or whatever suits you for Feb 1/2nd.

[smallhobbit]

I can't think of a better reason for starting a jumper!

[badly_knitted]

WOOO! Good luck, that sounds like a useful item of clothing to have, and if you making it means winter will end sooner, so much the better!

[peaceful_sands]

Gives you plenty of time to work on it before it's needed - it would be worse to be finishing just at the point when it stopped being needed.

[medievalrosalie]

But starting still gets it closer to finished!

[wiseheart]

You see? The right kind of inspiration is all it takes! ;)

[froodle]

Oooh a hooded waistcoat sounds lovely! And also, thank you for getting shot of winter :D

[yarnofariadne]

I finished my first scarf today! It's too dark in my flat to take a photo but I'll have one tomorrow.

[smallhobbit]

Congratulations - looking forward to seeing the pic.

[badly_knitted]

Yay, congratulations! Your first completed project!

Looking forward to seeing it.

[peaceful_sands]

Well done, a brilliant achievement. I shall look forward to seeing the photo when you post one.

[peaceful_sands]

Didn't make progress on any crafting projects but did get my book related journalling up to date for the end of January.

[medievalrosalie]

Catching up with journalling is good too!

[medievalrosalie]

Got more on the kontusz done. The front is stitched down and one armhole is finished. I'm sewing the sleeves on separately once the linings are sewn in because they seemed to sit better that way.

[yarnofariadne]

Yay!

[froodle]

I hope its okay to share here, as this is your craft achievement not mine,but my little meeces arrived today.

They're so cute and I love them so much:



They don't all have names yet, but I've named the big green one Agate and the little light blue and navy one is Rolling Dave, because he keeps rolling off stuff and out of sight

Here they are meeting the main man of the house, Fattiyeti



And here's Fattiyeti introducing them to some of the rest of the gang (as you can see, Rolling Dave is already causing mischief)

[badly_knitted]

YAY! So glad they arrived safely, and I love the names so far, ands the photos!

I hope you'll share the rest of the names when you decide. Rolling Dave was trouble when I was making him too. A real mischief maker, kept winding up upside down. The others were like "Show off!"