Check-In Post December 18th 2020

[badly_knitted]

Hello to all members, 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: Do you have any crafting plans for the festive season?


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[shopfront]

Yesterdays swatch dried overnight and the final gauge was... hilariously wrong. I wish I'd thought to measure it before blocking so I knew whether it was just my tension or how water affects this yarn. But that meant today I did two more swatches for that project that are currently drying, and then decided stuff it and swatched for my next (socks) so I can run those swatches through the machine early. Also rolled yarn for my next two projects while waiting for things to dry for measuring, so all in all I've spent a lot of time with my needles but don't actually feel like I accomplished much :|

Now that my Christmas scarf is done I'm all wrapped for festive things, although I made a scarf for my wife that wasn't specifically for Christmas and is sitting waiting for me to be bothered washing it a million times because it was crocking a lot. So I'm thinking I should get a wriggle on and do that before Christmas and add it to the present pile.

[badly_knitted]

I do hope it's not the water shrinking your swatches because that doesn't bode well for whatever you make with the yarn. You don't want it shrinking! That happened with a sweater I made for my mum, it was a mohair mix yarn, machine washable, but now it's child sized >.< I don't think she ever wore it even though she bought the yarn and chose the pattern.

Hope you get your wife's scarf sorted so she can be wrapped up snugly!