Check-In Post December 1st 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]

Busy day today, with a lot of writing done because my stupid OCD brain has decided I have to reach 300k words before the end of the year. I tried to ignore its demands, but it wouldn't shut up *pokes annoying brain* Anyway, it meant that I only managed to sew ears on two meece today, leaving eight more to do.

[yarnofariadne]

Congrats on all the writing and the meece ears! I meant to write today but only managed eight words.

[badly_knitted]

8 words is 8 more than you had before, so yay! It's progress!

Thanks. I've been trying to ease up on writing, but it's not quite working yet =/

[wiseheart]

The muses can't be ignored! *g*

[badly_knitted]

I just wish my brain would let me ease up on writing so I have more time for other things, but I guess this isn't going to be the year =/

[celli]

ah, brains!

[badly_knitted]

They have good points and bad points. I just wish mine wouldn't decide on something at the last minute and refuse to budge. It did the same the first time I got a bingo card. I was aiming for a line and running low on time when it decided I had to get a blackout. Now it's doing the same sort of thing. *rolls eyes and sends brain to the naughty corner*

[wiseheart]

Well, at least you *have* a brain. Too many people of my acquaintance aren't so lucky... they just don't know it. ;))

[badly_knitted]

I suppose I should count myself fortunate.

[yarnofariadne]

Wove in the ends on the scarf, still haven't blocked, but we're getting there.

[badly_knitted]

WOOO! Another step closer to a wearable scarf!

[wiseheart]

Originally, I planned to make the surprise packets and the pencil holders for the fair today. Only that I realized the lolly stick items are very fragile and wouldn't survive being carried away in enthusiastic kiddie hands. So I spent the rest of the day turning 38 simple envelopes into gift bags, with the help of Washi tape, stickers and motif stock - one for each lolly stick ornament. I think they turned out well enough, but of course my schedule got turned upside down again. God, I don't know how other people get everything done in time!

[badly_knitted]

Sounds like a great idea for protecting the lolly stick items!

It's always a mad scramble! You'll get there!

[wiseheart]

I will, unless I end up in the madhouse right before the fair. *g*
Fortunately, I have a hairdresser's appointment for the day after; that's always relaxing. And the best craft shops are in close vicinity to the hairdresser's...

[badly_knitted]

That sounds like it will help you de-stress after.

[celli]

oh man, it's a good thing you thought of that!

[wiseheart]

Indeed. Those things are so fragile, I'd get a coronary seeing them in pieces all over the place! I put so much time and labour in them last year; not to mention the costs. One would think lolly stick crafts are inexpensive, but if you have to paint them (=acrylic paint) and glue them together (wet glue *plus* double-sided tape, or they'd fall apart) and decoratre them (self-adhesive acrylic stones or whatnot) they turn out quite price-y, in the end. Not to mention that while the ice cream sticks come for free, you still have to buy (and eat, although that isn't the hard part) the ice-cream first.

[althea_valara]

Stitch club today! Everyone: "Where's your red and white?" "How's the Peppermint blanket coming?" "Did you finish it yet?" 😅 Reader, I have not been working on it, because the last time I went to Stitch Club I brought it with, only to have to rip and redo several times because I kept messing up. So I put it in time-out. I'm going to try to do a motif today, though!

Instead of the Peppermint Swirl blanket, I started a different project. I'll just say it's a knitted amigurumi and is a gift for someone; I'll reveal what it is once it's been sent to its recipient. It's a fun pattern that I've knit twice before, and I'm already enjoying doing it again.

Once I came home from stitch club, I cast on for a pair of gloves. I've done fingerless mitts many times, but never a proper glove, but I can't imagine it being too hard, just maybe a bit fiddly. The gloves are for two Nerdopolis challenges - one glove is being submitted in Wildcard: Pink (I'm using Red Heart with Love in Cameo color, which is a dusty pink) and the other in Nerdopolis University: Webb Space Telescope. My inspiration for the second one is the famous Pillars of Creation image; to me, the pillars look like fingers, so a glove would be appropriate.

This is round 3 of the current Nerdopolis tournament, and as always at the start of a round, I have start-itis, lol. I get excited and want to MAKE ALL THE THINGS! Funny: at stitch club someone mentioned they know someone who has a record of everything they've ever made, and I raised my hand and said, "I do, too!" Because Ravelry started right when I started knitting/crocheting, and I love data so it was natural for me to log my projects there. There might be some projects I've missed recording, but the bulk of them are there, and as of this last cast-on project, total EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTEEN (816) projects. WOW!

[badly_knitted]

Hope you get a motif done! I know you want to get your blanket finished.

Wooo for new projects! I've done gloves before, but with short, open-ended fingers. The fingers are fiddly to work in the round, but aside from that not difficult.

My goodness, that's a lot of projects! Amazing! How many years has it taken you?

I know the feeling of wanting to make ALL the things! Enjoy!

[althea_valara]

I started crocheting in September 2007, and knitting the month after (I took classes). So it's been a while. I had a few years of close to (or over) 100 projects, but I've slowed down. My goal this year was 36, but thanks to the craft fair I did more - I'm at 48 so far this year!

[badly_knitted]

Awesome! Some years are bound to be more prolific than others, but you've well exceeded your goal this year. You've got a lot to be proud of!

[celli]

816!!!!! Amazing!

[celli]

I did the finishing work on five projects last night, but I'm only posting them one at a time so people don't get sick of me (that's the hope, anyway). Here's today's:



bigger picture and more details here - it was part of an art challenge for an album that comes out tomorrow.

There's another challenge for a different event that I just thought of a cool idea for, and I was going to the store for hoops anyway, and oops $$ later...but I have to sit with it for a day and make sure it's planned well before I touch anything. They only gave us til 12/8 for it, though, so I can't sit very long!

[badly_knitted]

A very cool idea, well done!

Good luck with your next challenge. It's a tight deadline, but planning will make it go more smoothly. You want to get it right first time.