Check-In Post January 23rd 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]

Today has been quite eventful! Sent my car for her MOT test and she passed, no repairs required, so YAY! Only had to pay the test fee.


I happened to glance out the window while working on my computer and saw something odd in the sky so I whipped my reading glasses off and put my regular glasses on so I could see properly... There were two paragliders drifting past, on a bitterly cold day in January. I live in the suburbs, so where they took off from and where they were headed I have no idea.


On the crafting front, I had to adjust my plans for the sweater slightly because I miscalculated and increased to 122 stitches but when I added up the panels I had planned, it came to 120. I didn't want to undo the increase row so I fiddled with the layout and went with cables over 8 stitches instead of six between the pattern panels. I've done the first 26 rows, but it's a 38 row pattern repeat for the main panels. It's looking good so far.

[wiseheart]

Oh dear, it's so annoying when you have to adjust your original plans! But you got it under control, so it's good, right?

Congratulations to the car test! I didn't even know you had a car.

[badly_knitted]

It wasn't a serious problem. Adapting a pattern or combining two or more always requires a certain amount of planning and double-checking calculations, it's easy to miscount how many stitches are needed, but it's fine now I'm underway.

I learned to drive as soon as I was legally allowed to and I've owned cars since I was 18. I don't drive a lot these days, but I hate being without a car. It makes life a lot easier whenever I have to go anywhere, but it's expensive to run.

[darkcedars]

At least it was only minor fiddling.

Congrats on the car getting good grades. I would also do a huge double-take at gliders!

[badly_knitted]

Yes, and the results so far are very promising!

Hot air balloons in summer is an occasional thing, although not since the pandemic started, and I've seen the odd microlight flying high overhead, also in summer, but paragliders is a new one, and very unexpected in midwinter. I wish I could have taken a photograph, but there must have been a pretty good wind up where they were because they were travelling fast.

[spiralicious]

You have had an eventful day.

Congrats on the car test.

The paragliders had to be quite a shock.

Hurray for being able to adjust your sweater plans

[badly_knitted]

Very eventful indeed!

I was relieved not to have a huge repair bill. I get to keep my car going another year.

It was weird to see. They weren't close or anything, quite high up, but still not something I would have expected.

Thanks. I've been knitting long enough that it wasn't a big problem, and what I've done so far looks good.

[spiralicious]

:)