Check-In Post January 22nd 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.


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[badly_knitted]

I managed to get the last pair of arm warmers sewn up last night, so yay!


Today, I started the back of my sweater while watching Dancing on Ice. I've ribbed 25 rows so I'm up to the increase row, which I intend to knit in a minute now I've calculated how to space the increases evenly. Tomorrow I can set the pattern and see how things go from there.

[smallhobbit]

Hooray for knitting rib! I've just been doing the rib for the front of a top for Mini Hobbit - almost finished it today.

[peaceful_sands]

Well done.

[spiralicious]

Hurray!

[sister_raphael]

Getting a lot done!

[annofowlshire]

Okay, so I finally started on the chart and it's a mess!

So I... rewrote the cable chart >_>;

I really hope that's the only problem since all the errata links go to 404 page not found errors...

It is also possible I decide to do another pattern entirely, but I'll give this one a bit more time.

[darkcedars]

Oh no. :( Good luck.

[badly_knitted]

Ugh, I hate when there are mistakes in a chart or pattern! Hope the re-writing works.

The great thing is, as long as you stick to to the number of stitches and the shaping for the pattern, you can use any knitting stitch you choose or invent your own. There are loads of different cables. I once used the same basic pattern for four sleeveless Aran bodywarmers, but used different cables for each one. They turned out great.

https://badly-knitted.dreamwidth.org/5645.html

[peaceful_sands]

Oh hope you are able to figure things out so you can make things work.

[spiralicious]

Good luck

[sister_raphael]

Fingers crossed for you!

[darkcedars]

The yarn finally arrived later last night. I guessed wrong on matching the blue but happy with it.



Working on this while waiting for chili to cook. I laid out half on a pre-existing cardigan and think I need 10 rows of the new blue to finish.

[badly_knitted]

Looks very pretty, and as long as you're happy that's what matters, right?

You'll be finished before you know it!

[peaceful_sands]

It's looking good.

[spiralicious]

It looks very pretty

[sister_raphael]

It's a lovely colour though!

[wiseheart]

Those colours look really great together!

[peaceful_sands]

So still not getting much on the crafting front done, but I have spent quite a bit of time with cookery books this week (I've acquired an air fryer and so am trying to figure out how to make healthy food things in it).

I sorted the threads for my cross-stitch during DoI. No mean feat but theoretically I'm ready to start now.

[badly_knitted]

Good luck with learning to use the air fryer! I'm sure you'll make lots of yummy things with it.

Yay for sorting threads! What are you planning to stitch?

There were enough add breaks in DoI that you really need something to do while watching. Some pretty impressive skating from most of the last batch, I thought!

[spiralicious]

Congrats on the air fryer, hope you find some tasty, healthy things to make with it.

Woot for getting your threads sorted!

[sister_raphael]

Ready to start!! Distracted by cookery books is 100% okay. Cookery is just crafting with food.

[darkcedars]

We made some very tasty salmon very quickly in the air fryer recently. Definitely makes fish and easier addition to the meal plan.

[wiseheart]

I've managed to bind in another page of the quiet book. Only the back cover left now. Unfortunately, I also happened to cut off too much from the width of the spine, so I'll have to perform some sewing acrobatics to make it work, but I hope it will. *sigh*

[badly_knitted]

Yay for progress, and oops for mistake. I hope you manage to wrangle it so that it works.

[spiralicious]

I had a very bad panic attack a few days ago and it's kind of thrown everything off since (at the library of all places, at least I was quiet >.>) But I have worked on a few things, just, when I did them is a bit jumbled.

On the stitch and stream front:
I finished the scarf! I would have finished a day earlier, but I ran out of yarn 10 rows short of finishing and lost the spare skein. I found it the next day, learned how to join in new yarn, finished the pattern, and added fringe. I still need to weave in the ends.

Of course after that, I immediately started another scarf. It's the last project I have yarn on hand for. It is going to be the same pattern I've been working, but without the neck hugging ribbing in the middle or fringe. The yarn was a thrift store find, a brand I've never heard of, but the color is called "merry magenta." The new scarf has given me the opportunity to try out the knitting needles I got from the Dollar Tree, they're the same size I've been using but twice as long and flimsier. It's been an adjustment. I've also discovered I can knit and read subtitles, though slowly.

For the streaming bit, I finished season 2 of Hilda, watched the Hilda movie, the first 2 episodes of the 2018 limited series The Haunting of Hill House, and season 4 of Aggretsuko.

Other things:

Made 2 recipes off my to try list, though I still need to check in at the cookbook challenge comm

Tried buying yarn locally, but every slot had a "sorry for the inconvenience" tag. I was able to get a pen I wanted to try and some stickers for a journaling project, so the trip wasn't a total loss.

I did some supplies research online so I can budget an online order.

Designed and outfit for my Human Avatar on Subeta.

Poked at a few Snowflake Challenges

Did some business paperwork for my father

Figured out hashtags for my friend's brother's puppet videos

I worked on a knitting project tracking layout in my bullet journal. It has numbered skull and crossbones, but with knitting needles instead of crossbones.

Drew an aquarius art card and a year of the rabbit art card

Discovered my label maker is broken when I went to use it on a journal

For those of you who read through all that, thank you for sticking with my ramble.

[sister_raphael]

Gosh! You sure have managed to get a lot done!

[sister_raphael]

Had a very busy morning updating computer and website things and giving the surcote hem sideways glances.

[badly_knitted]

Keep a close eye on it, maybe you can glare it into submission ;)

Well done with the updating!