Check-In Post December 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.


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[badly_knitted]

I was out all morning buying stuff for Christmas so I'm beyond exhausted.


No work on the mini meeces today, but I've started knitting a pair of arm warmers for a friend, and I'm 52 rows into the first one. I'll carry on with that once I've posted this comment.

[wiseheart]

A bit of variety is good for us crafters. Sounds like good progress already, and arm warmers will come in handy this winter.

[badly_knitted]

She works in a small shop and her hands are getting so cold. Hopefully these will help.

[wiseheart]

my poinsettia flowers are done. They are a bit avant-garde, seeing that I've made them free-hand, from whatever felt rests I could dig out of my stash, but I find them lovely nonetheless:



In Hungarian, they are called "St. Nicholas's flowers", so finishing them on this day of all days was fitting, I think.

Also, I've packed all my wares together and took them to school, in case there'll be rain on Thursday. A good half of them are paper-based or otherwise sensitive to water, and since I don't have a car but do have a long walk from the bus stop to the school, I thought "better safe than sorry". I really hope nothing is gonna happen in the next two days and the fair can take place (and I can attend, too). It's been too long!

You can see a few pictures from the earlier fairs here. The last one was in 2019, due to stupid Covid.

[badly_knitted]

They are so lovely! And what perfect timing for finishing them.

Yes, best to get everything where it's going while the weather holds. Good luck with the fair!

[althea_valara]

So far today I have finished the motif I started yesterday. "...Why is it cupping?" I kept asking myself. All the motifs cup a little but this one felt like it was doing it more. Once I finished it off, I counted the corners to make sure I didn't miss a chain space (I sometimes get on a roll and just do straight DCs instead of 3DC, ch 3, 3DC) and I had... 7 corners. Counted THREE times and still came up with 7 corners. It's supposed to have 8. ARGH.

SO this means I screwed up at the very beginning of the motif, and did (dc, ch1) only 7 times in the ring instead of 8 times. Which means I have to pull the entire motif out and redo it. Yes, I'm cranky.

To give myself a palate cleanser, I did some felt kits I picked up from the library. It's these, from a dollar store:
https://www.dollartree.com/crafters-square-felt-ornament-kits-12x16-in/207375

I just glued everything on. If that doesn't hold, I can needle felt them (I have a needle felting tool from a previous library kit). It took all of 20 minutes to do the three kits.

In a few minutes, I'll dive back into the crochet again. Right now I am taking a short internet break to catch up on all my sites. It's only 3:25pm here so still time to get a motif or two done today... done PROPERLY this time, I hope!

[badly_knitted]

Oh no! How annoying for you. It happens though. Hopefully you'll still have time to complete a couple of motifs.

The felt kits look cute, simple but effective.

[tielan]

Made peach pickles last night.

[badly_knitted]

Oooh, delicious!