Check-In Post February 6th 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

[badly_knitted]

Made up for last Sunday by knitting 40 arm warmer rows!

Also finished 5 meeces. Didn't knit any today, but I still have 10 waiting to be finished so it's okay.

[peaceful_sands]

Wow! That's really good progress on the arm warmers!

Hope you enjoyed DOI tonight.

[smallhobbit]

What colour do you say these latest arm warmers were, I forget?

[wiseheart]

Well, you can afford to take your time with the meeces, can't you? And you've made nice progress with the other project, so you still rock.

[yarnofariadne]

That's fantastic!

[m_findlow]

Well done with all your meeces. I see that they (unlike the rest of us) are getting to travel the globe! How many have you made now?

[medievalrosalie]

I can't wait for mine to arrive!

[peaceful_sands]

I haven't got anything done on the crochet projects - I was too tired on Friday by the time I finally finished work, then yesterday I went out for a walk and managed to end up being too tired afterwards which caused a flare up of pain in my hands, wrists and elbows and couldn't face trying to handle anything at all.

I did manage after some painkillers and a rest to do a bit of writing and filled some more prompts. Did a couple more this morning - unbelievably I've written 15 fills so far over the couple of weeks! I'm going to try and do a bit of work on the sweater now, but might only be a little bit of work.

[smallhobbit]

Even a little all helps. Hope the pain is easing now.

[badly_knitted]

You can only do what you can manage. Trying to do things when you're tired or in pain isn't worth the effort. Crafting is supposed to be fun, and you can't enjoy it if you're hurting.

Well done with your writing, that's a lot of fills!

Enjoy your crochet if you manage to do any.

[wiseheart]

Let's hope the pain will lessen, soon. Impressive progress on the writing front, though.

[yarnofariadne]

I hope you feel better soon ♥

[m_findlow]

Hope the pain is easing off. Tryi g to do anything creative when you feel rubbish is hard, but we'll done on your fills!

[medievalrosalie]

Slowly slowly still gets things done.

[smallhobbit]

Having revamped the nose for my knitted cat I've now amended the arm (front leg, but this is a doll-style cat) because the original pattern just looked all wrong and out of balance. I need to undo part of the first arm, since I've now knitted the second with the revised sizing and think it looks much better.

[badly_knitted]

Great work on designing new cat arms as well as a new nose! Patterns are great, but should maybe be considered more as a starting point to be improved upon.

Looking forward to seeing the completed cat doll!

[peaceful_sands]

You're doing really well and it's great that you are able to improve on the original pattern.

[yarnofariadne]

Great work!

[m_findlow]

I'm sure your cat is looking better now, though I'm always amazed at how knitters can just modify a pattern. I can't follow them at all! ;)

[medievalrosalie]

Awesome!! Can't wait to see it!

[wiseheart]

All cat tails are firmly attached. Coming up: the paws. Those will take longer, though, as each cat has four of them. *g*

[peaceful_sands]

Sounds like excellent progress.

[threewalls]

I have finished my first cardigan! It needs ends weaving in and blocking (badly), but all the knitting is done.

[peaceful_sands]

That's fantastic. I shall look forward to seeing a picture once you've finished the last bits.

[celli]

I actually made about an hour's worth of progress on my bib today, after about 20 minutes or so of work yesterday. Plodding along, which, given that it's an elephant, is apt enough!

[badly_knitted]

You're doing really well!

LOL! Yes, very apt.

[annofowlshire]

Didn’t do anything Friday/Saturday as we had guests and usual knitting time was replaced with boardgaming time.

But back to it on Sunday with “craft night” with the Mr. (He paints Warhammer 40k figs while I do needlework). More on the waistcoast/vest thing: joined V-neck into the round, and in a few more rows will be splitting off the arms and moving on to the body which will be nice and simple knitting in the round until the hem ^_^

[badly_knitted]

Sounds like your waistcoat sweater vest is coming along well!

[medievalrosalie]

Wool hood embroidery is finished!
pic didn't copy across, but post here: https://medievalrosalie.livejournal.com/82430.html

[badly_knitted]

It looks wonderful! Well done!