Check-In Post January 21st 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]

The new mini meece (27 of them) and the not so mini meece (5) all have their faces now, so they're finished! They've also been persuaded to pose for photos.





I still have a pair of arm warmers to sew up, but I've completed most of what I wanted to get done before starting my new sweater.

[darkcedars]

Those always make me laugh. They're great, no surprise that they are popular.

[wiseheart]

Oh, they are sooo adorable!

[spiralicious]

They're so CUTE.

And yay for the getting the arm warmers mostly done

[darkcedars]

Snowy today. Not a lot accumulated, but cold and dark.

I have failed to convince myself to work on mending and am making a dishcloth. New yarn has not yet arrived.

[wiseheart]

Well, dishclothes are useful!

[badly_knitted]

I hope it hasn't got lost in the snow!

Dishcloths will always be needed, and crocheting is far more warming than mending. Gets the blood circulating.

[spiralicious]

Dish cloths are always handy

Sorry about the weather and the yarn

[wiseheart]

I've finished another quarter of the inner binding of Dani's quiet book. This was an easy page, as it didn't have as many layers as the front cover. The next one will be slightly thicker, but (hopefully) not too brutal; and then the back cover comes. *shudders*

[badly_knitted]

Well done! Definitely a good idea to do the hardest pages first and last with the slightly easier ones between. Lessens the strain on your fingers

[darkcedars]

Getting close!

[sister_raphael]

Getting there!

[spiralicious]

You can do it!

[annofowlshire]

I cast on the back piece on the hoodie a few days ago and didn't get very far before I finished the ribbed edge and hit the cable chart and...it's been many, many years since I did anything with cables. (I don't find them relaxing knitting.) But also other stuff on the chart had me baffled, and this week has been a Thing (in part because we have also acquired a new puppy) so I finally sat down tonight and worked out what all the symbols meant and put them on a post-in in the book next to the chart so maybe tomorrow I can actually do a bit of knitting...

[badly_knitted]

Symbols can be a nightmare, deciphering them, but hopefully now you have you can make faster progress! Just keep the yarn out of reach of your new puppy. What breed did you get, or is it a mixed breed?

[sister_raphael]

I am enjoying the puppy posts!

[spiralicious]

Sorry this week has been a Thing (congrats on the puppy).

Deciphering charts can be such a pain, glad you were able to work the symbols out.

[verdande_mi]

I did something new this week! I went to a basket weaving course, well binding, since there was no actual weaving involved. And I didn't make a basket, as I wanted a round flat shape as decoration. I think that was a good choice for a beginner project. I finished it on Saturday, and it is a bit shabby, but I am happy with it. Certainly something I want to try more of.

[badly_knitted]

That sounds like so much fun! Glad you enjoyed it and that you're happy with what you made!

[sister_raphael]

Oh very cool!

[spiralicious]

Very nice!

[glinda]

Today I have been mostly knitting boobs. No really. One of my pals works in social care, one of the things in her box of useful props/icebreakers is a knitted boob. It used to be one of a pair, but one of them has gone missing and the other is looking a bit sad. So I’m making her a new set! I finished one today, and I’m halfway through the second one. They’re actually pretty cute, and a fun knit in and of themselves.

[badly_knitted]

That is so cool! Hope the new knitted boobs prove as helpful as the old pair.

[sister_raphael]

Excellent!

[sister_raphael]

Both the surcote and the lining is finished and now to join them together!

[badly_knitted]

Such a lovely combination of colours! It's going to look wonderful.