Check-In Post December 31st 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: How has your crafting year been?


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[smallhobbit]

I've had a good crafting year. I've knitted Mini Hobbit a mermaid cardi, and I've also knitted several Christmas ornaments. I completed a cross stitch of swans and cygnets, as well as Tenby Harbour, and lots of Christmas and birthday cards. I've also been to 11 Dare to Dabble sessions, all different crafts.

[celli]

I just did a crafting roundup on twitter and it's 23 pieces (the link says 24 but I doublecounted a piece from last year) in different kinds of embroidery and crochet! Pretty happy with that.

[celli]

That is so cool!

[smallhobbit]

That's an excellent amount of crafting!

[smallhobbit]

Thank you very much!

[badly_knitted]

You've had an excellent crafting year! Well done!

[badly_knitted]

Oops forgot to comment!

First of the second pair of rainbow arm warmers is finished, and I've cast on and knitted two rows of its .

My crafting year has been... fair, I guess. Lots of meeces and mini meeces made, several pairs of arm warmers knitted, a bit of cross stitch done, and some preparations made towards the bouncy spiders I still plan on making before next Halloween. Oh, and I knitted some more pumpkins and stitched faces on the ones I'd already made. And some more pendants for next Halloween. I still owe photos of those and the mini meeces. I'll get around to it eventually, I hope.

[badly_knitted]

Well done! That's a very impressive array of embroidery!

[smallhobbit]

Thank you very much!

[smallhobbit]

Meeces and more meeces
Both large and small
Lots and lots of arm warmers
Some short, some tall
That's an excellent amount of crafting
I'd say you'd had a ball!

[wiseheart]

A very good crafting year indeed! And the pictures you shared with us were beautiful.

[wiseheart]

I had a very busy crafting year: three finished and two partially finished quiet books, ungodly amounts of felt ornaments, Christmas cards and other related stuff for the charity fair, the Fish Choir that I made just for the fun of it - I think I can be content.

As for today, I worked a bit on the deep sea page: fixed all the background stuff, including the stupid coral, so the submarine now can move up and down. I also finished the seahorse - it is rather cute. Left are a jellyfish, a starfish and a crab, and then I'll be done with this page.

[wiseheart]

You did a fantastic job! And that elephant bib is simply adorable.

[badly_knitted]

You know, I think I did. Actually, quite a lot of balls. Of yarn ;)

[badly_knitted]

You did get a lot done. I'd forgotten about your fish! They were brilliant =D

Excellent progress on the deep sea page! It's not going to be finished until next year though... *grins*

[smallhobbit]

Thank you very much!

[smallhobbit]

You've had a brilliant year. And the deep sea page sounds wonderful!

[yarnofariadne]

How has your crafting year been?
This was genuinely my first year of crafting, ever in my life. My aunt had enough patience to spend 15 minutes trying to teach me to knit once when I was 11, and got so frustrated with me not picking it up immediately that she abandoned it, and I figured that meant I just wasn't cut out for crafting. I started trying to teach myself knitting in 2021 but ended up having to start over from scratch this January. It's still not something I have a particular talent for, and I'm not used to not immediately being good at things, honestly, so it's been good for me to have something I have to work hard on. And I have some really lovely scarves! I'm still very much a work in progress but I expect that never goes away, to some degree. Looking forward to improving more next year.

[yarnofariadne]

That's a very good year!

[yarnofariadne]

That's impressive!

[yarnofariadne]

Lots of lovely things!

[yarnofariadne]

Sounds like a lovely year!

[darkcedars]

I didn't realize you'd been to so many of those craft events. They always sound fun.

[darkcedars]

I really like those fish.

[darkcedars]

At the very least you'd give the pied piper job security!