Check-In Post March 4th 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]

Now that the meece-making has concluded, today I made...

2 meeces.

Don't look at me like that, this is entirely smallhobbit's fault, she's the one who put the thought into my head!

The current prompt at one of the challenge communities I belong to, fan_flashworks, is Black and White. The great thing about this community is that it's not simply for writers, As long as your creation fits the current challenge, anything goes — graphics of all kinds, knitting, crochet, jewellery making, baking... You make it, the mods will accept it.

So, I have knitted two black and white meece for the challenge, and the idea is to take photos of them and see if I can create some very basic icons... That's going to be the hard part, I'm not an icon maker, but we shall see.

[wiseheart]

Haha, the meeces aren't that easily denied!

[badly_knitted]

At least these two have a particular purpose. I'll attach safety pins later so I can wear them as little meece-y brooches.

[smallhobbit]

Do a short illustrated story with meeces?

And yay for having inspired you!

[badly_knitted]

Something to think of for the future perhaps. First let's see if I can get the meeces to sit still for photographs that I can make into icons. They are cute... I just wasn't intending to make more, lol!

[m_findlow]

Meeces should definitely find their way into fic!

[badly_knitted]

They already have, smallhobbit wrote one that's up on AO3... An Explosion of Meeces

https://archiveofourown.org/works/35921101/chapters/89561842

[nagi_schwarz]

So cool of you to make icons out of things you've knitted. Looking forward to them!

(And to more meeces. :D)

[badly_knitted]

That's if I even CAN make the icons. I'm at the photographing stage, but my camera batteries run out after a few shots and have to be recharged, so it's a slow process trying to get suitable pics and then they have to be cropped, and made smaller.... Eeek!

Also have to figure out posting them as icons *scratches head*

[yarnofariadne]

The meece are unstoppable!!

[badly_knitted]

They're turbo-charged!

Beehives

[wiseheart]

I made two of them today, for the quiet-books-to-be. Simple, easy, flat felt beehives. That was about the amount of concentration I could bring up today. But better than nothing.

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[badly_knitted]

That sounds like good progress, well done. Some days are so stressful it's hard to find the brain power and energy to do anything.

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[wiseheart]

True. That meeting with the insurance lady completely drained my energy.

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[badly_knitted]

I can only imagine!

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[nagi_schwarz]

Quiet books are the best. Go you!

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[wiseheart]

I love quiet books. Making them is very time- and work- intense, though.

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[yarnofariadne]

They sound excellent, I hope they were soothing to make ♥

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[wiseheart]

They gave me the feeling of having done something - anything - useful with my day.

[nagi_schwarz]

I have been trying to stash bust by just crocheting endless amounts of granny squares till I have enough to turn into an afghan, at which point I'll join them together. I used up a whole ball of pretty variegated yarn with enough for an afghan, but the black yarn I wanted to use to join the squares was the wrong size so...I need to buy some black yarn that's the right size. In the meantime I just found some other balls of yarn to turn into more squares that will fit with the black yarn I already have, because why not?

[yarnofariadne]

Excellent work!

[badly_knitted]

You're going to be buried under granny squares at the rate you're going!

Why not indeed? Two blankets, and a lot of yarn used up.