Check-In Post October 25th 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]

The last 10 mini meeces have their faces! Tomorrow, if I can get my camera to work for long enough, I hope to take photos of them.


Also, I decided to make some more pendants. I was aiming for 10, but only managed 8, partly because I was really struggling to get the split rings through the loops at the tops of the charms, which are rather thick, and partly because on the last one I made, the cord would NOT go through one of the beads I'd picked out. I kept trying to enlarge the hole, but I use a waxed cord to thread everything on, and after a while the end gets frayed and then gets increasingly floppy. I was at the point where I was going to have to take a bead off the other side if I couldn't get the last one threaded, but I eventually succeeded.

[wiseheart]

That must have been a tough task. Go you!

[badly_knitted]

Thanks!

Yes, I like making pendants, but the cord is quite thick so I need beads with big enough holes, and some are a tight fit.

[peaceful_sands]

Well done - it's great that you were finally able to get that last bead on - frustrating battle along the way but worth it in the end.

[badly_knitted]

Thanks. It was a huge relief when I finally managed to wrestle the cord through.

[wiseheart]

I was stitching on tiny little dots for an hour or so. Of the almost 80 required only 23 are left. I hope to finish that part tomorrow, before turning my attention to the joys of Velcro work. [/sarcasm]

[badly_knitted]

Excellent progress! Sounds incredibly fiddly though.

[peaceful_sands]

*sending encouraging thoughts for your trials!*

[althea_valara]

So there I was, working on my double-knitting project. I had the setup rows done, and it was time to start the chart. I'm using the dragon only from this chart. Something made me count my stitches before I started the chart, and I found out I had 19 stitches between the border stitches, not 20. ARGH.

If this was not double-knitting I would have snuck in an increase somewhere, but wasn't sure what to do. This was supposed to be a Nerdopolis project, and I'm very slow at double-knitting. I decided to say frak it, I'm not starting over, I'll do something else.

"Something else" turned out to be Small Eastern Dragon which I bought earlier this year for a different Nerdopolis challenge but ended up not doing. I started this today and I'd love to know the designer's definition of "small". I am up to the first bend in the body and the tail is a whopping 17.5"(44.45 cm) long! This dragon is probably going to be HUGE. Hopefully I finish it in time.

I did figure out how to do a thumbnail for my YouTube videos, and am slowly uploading my streams to YouTube. Channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtJ7-8OZDNnXxRPi3zrHCTg

Yeah, I don't have a pretty URL yet, but supposedly that is coming soon. YouTube is rolling out a new feature called "handles" which you can use in your channel's URL. Looking forward to it so I don't have gibberish I need to keep copying and pasting.

[peaceful_sands]

Sorry to hear of the frustration with your knitting project. Good luck with your dragon - it looks exciting - but huge from your description of the bit you've managed to do so far.

[badly_knitted]

How annoying for you! Hopefully you can try that design again some other time.

The Eastern Dragon is awesome, but yeah, doesn't sound small at all. Good luck with it!

Well done for getting your youtube channel up!

[sister_raphael]

I am always sad about unpretty URLs so I feel your pain.

[pensnest]

That Eastern Dragon is amazing! Alas that I do not crochet.

[peaceful_sands]

I didn't do anything last night because I was too tired but I did get some exciting news that a friend is unexpectedly expecting - I have until round about the end of January so will have to go and have a rummage to see if I have another nice cross-stitch that would suit the occasion. I love actually having someone to give some of the results of my endeavours to.

[badly_knitted]

It's always good to have a recipient for what you're making. Hope you find something that will suit for a nursery.

[sister_raphael]

A visitor! How nice!

[sister_raphael]

A picture of the blue silk kirtle with buttonholes finished and buttons on! it's an overdress so it has short sleeves to show off the dress underneath. I love the colour so much! Silver belt and circlet with silver roses to go with.

[badly_knitted]

It's stunning! Definitely worth all your hard work.

[pensnest]

That is gorgeous! I have immense respect for people who can sew.