Check-In Post January 12th 2023

[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]

Today has been exhausting, so once again no crafting, but I did get some writing done on one of my WiPs, so at least it hasn't been a wasted day.


Gales blowing outside though, I think I need to go rescue some stuff...

[wiseheart]

Good job with the writing, I wish I could get back into it any time, soon.

[annofowlshire]

Rest well! I hope the wind doesn't blow too much away, it's been quite breezy this way, too!

[darkcedars]

Ugh, cold and blustery here but not to the point of chasing stuff.

[spiralicious]

Writing is good.

Hope you didn't have to chase down too much stuff

[wiseheart]

I worked a bit on seaming the first double pages of the quiet book. 1/4 of the seaming is now done, and I'm developing blisters on my fingertips. But the show must go on. I've somehow misplaced my thimble (not that it wasn't way too small for my sausage fingers to begin with), so now I use the desktop to push the needle through the multiple layers of hard felt. Grrr! I'm so angry that the idea with the simple blanket stitch edging didn't work out! Cross grain ribbon is a real pain to work with.

Oh, and DW still refuses to import my comments, while sending me notes that they *have* been imported. Drat!

[badly_knitted]

That's great progress, but your poor fingers!

I've used hard surfaces to push needles through thick fabric too. Sometimes it ends up being the only way.

[darkcedars]

Oh no, your fingers!

[spiralicious]

Your poor fingers

[annofowlshire]

The year has been off to a chaotic start, but here I am... Using my new set of needles (previous sets still stubbornly hiding!) and the wool I got from the Black Friday sale several weeks ago, I've cast on a heather hoodie vest.

[badly_knitted]

Sorry your year hasn't got off to the best start, I can empathise.

Glad to hear your knitting is underway, even though you had to buy new needles.

That sleeveless hoodie looks brilliant!

[darkcedars]

Great, you got started. :D

[wiseheart]

So, the evil needles still haven't shown up? Shame on them! But that hoodie does look very pretty.

[spiralicious]

*\o/*

[darkcedars]

Well, when I was cold and achy the other day, it was the start of me being sick too. I am mostly just extra tired now. Worked on my cardigan project a bit more, and I've used up the gray leftover yarn -- next, the stripe yarn.



Current size would fit a four year old. So a ways to go (each side is a hexagon, worked in the round, and folded). It is nice to have it to a point I can see how it will work out.

[badly_knitted]

Hope you're feeling better!

That cardigan is a very clever design!

[wiseheart]

The cardigan promises to be very pretty! I hope you'll get better, soon.

[spiralicious]

The cardigan is looking good.

Hope you feel better soon

[sister_raphael]

No sewing while my sis and her hubby visit for a few days, but they've left now and really looking forward to doing more on the surcote lining!
Ps I bought more silk for gownes to go under it yesterday. Berry red and ice silver blue. Pic later tonight!

[badly_knitted]

Hope your sister's hubby is doing good.

Oooh, those two colours sound positively delicious!

[spiralicious]

Nice

[wiseheart]

Your fingers will be grateful for the break, I think.

[spiralicious]

Today was a rollercoaster!

Plans:
*Weekly food shopping, possibly battling the chaos of it both being discount day at the discount grocery and potential panic buying
*Knit
*Force myself not to nap

What actually happened:
*Research pens for bullet journaling
*Do challenge 6 of the Snowflake Challenge (the fandom scavenger hunt)
*Catch up on DW, mostly
*Finally go to the store, as it opens, somehow missing all the craziness and by pure dumb luck getting pulled into a different cashier line just before I was going to have to use the one that throws my food
*Find out my GREAT NEPHEW WAS BORN LAST NIGHT
*My dad then tacks on a request to do a bunch of paperwork for him by the end of the month in this announcement
*Assembled Stranger Things cat play structure for my wee demon
*End up on surprise mystery trip across the bridge where I end up with knitting needles, tiny octopi, assorted craft supplies, and 8 cans of cream of mushroom soup
*Try to catch up with a friend, but... Did not go well. Not bad, just not well
*Resist napping like a toddler
*End up napping anyway
*Wake up to leftovers plated up and ready for the microwave (never, ever happens)

Oh and 1 of the 2 phone cases showed up in the mail.

[badly_knitted]

That is an INSANE amount fitted into one day!

Congratulations on your great nephew! Awesome news!

I have to ask... tiny octopi? Are we talking real ones or something else? They sound adorable, I'm just j-hoping they're not meant to be eaten...

[wiseheart]

Congratulations to the extension of the family!