Check-In Post December 29th 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: I've run out of questions!


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]

It did snow last night, leaving me in a worse situation than ever.

I finished knitting the other multicoloured arm warmer so I now have 4 pairs waiting to be sewn up. Also promised my neighbour a second pair so I have those to knit next.

[smallhobbit]

Really not what you wanted!

[badly_knitted]

Definitely not. Barely 9 C in my room this morning, and colder downstairs. I just want to be warm but no one's interested in doing anything to help. =(

[smallhobbit]

It won't warm you up, but I have posted your fic: The Carollers

[badly_knitted]

I saw, Thank you! I just haven't had time to read yet, but I promise I will!

[smallhobbit]

No rush, I just wanted to be sure you knew.

[badly_knitted]

Thankfully AO3 is good about sending notifications to my email inbox, so it's sitting there waiting for me =)

[froodle]

Oh no! Sending you wishes for a thaw soon!

[badly_knitted]

There wasn't a lot of snow, maybe an inch, and most of it's gone but the temperature is dropping to -2 again tonight and there might be more snow in the next few days =(

Wishing it was spring already, then I might not spend most of my time freezing. One electric heater is not enough to keep me warm.

[smallhobbit]

My wool and needles arrived today, so I've made a start to my hat (did the casting on!) Didn't get any further as I needed to begin the stegosaurus, which now has half a body (front half).

[badly_knitted]

Yay for knitting! Knitted stegosaurus, everyone should have one of those!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

No crafting, just cleaning.

But of the 6 cross stitches I did, only 2 people have received their cards. Maybe the post office will eventually deliver them but it's been 3 weeks and 2 weeks, so I'm not hopeful. :(

[badly_knitted]

Oh, that is so sad! All that work =(

Maybe you could email pictures to the people who didn't get theirs.

[froodle]

I had something that arrived in the UK on November 12, then the tracking just stopped. It arrived here (Isle of Man) on Christmas Eve and I *just* got the confirmation email, so your cross stitches may still turn up, albeit very late. Fingers crossed for you!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Oh, that's reassuring. I have been despairing a bit. What irks me most is that I posted 2 envelopes of same size & postage and one arrived in Leeds in 5 days and the other seems to be taking the slow boat to Gloucester, 3 weeks later. And it isn't just the UK. I posted 4 envelopes same postage, same size to 4 different places in the US. The one to NYC arrived in a week, and the rest are still floating in the ether, going on 2 weeks. There was such a hullabaloo around the elections about the postal service in the US but I didn't notice any problems then, so I was lulled into a state of complacency. I hope you're right and they're just delayed. I'm okay with that.

[shopfront]

It's been ages since I checked in but I finished my first hat before Christmas and I love it, it was such a quick knit! I'm still trying to decide whether to just line it with fleece fabric and call it done or try and work out a way to add more heavy duty insulation to it though *indecisive shrug* I've also finished my first ever sock. The cast on wasn't stretchy enough and I misjudged how high the ankle would sit in the example photos and added some unnecessary extra rows, so I'm going to have to either re-knit it or just re-do and graft the cuff back on. I'm thinking re-knit, I'm sure my second and so on goes will be much smoother than my first attempt at turning a heel and all that anyway. My second sock's cuff and heel are already done and the cuff is much better on that.

[badly_knitted]

Check-in whenever you remember, it's not compulsory.

Well done! In theory I like the idea of lining a knitted hat, but as I loathe sewing with a vengeance, left to me that would never get done!

You can always say your first attempt was a practice run to iron out the kinks and that the sock you're knitting now is the first of a pair ;)