Check-In Post January 29th 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]

Despite making a stupid mistake that required me to undo a quarter of a row, I have managed to complete the ribbing for the front of my sweater, including the increase row, while watching Dancing on Ice. So, tomorrow I get back to the fun part, the diamond lace and the cables!

[wiseheart]

It's always a relief to get the tedious parts done - even if you have to redo some of them. Good luck with the fun part!

[peaceful_sands]

Well done but now what will you do in next week's DoI?

[alafaye]

Woohoo

[sister_raphael]

Even with a little unpicking, it sounds like a lot of progress was made.

[yarnofariadne]

Hooray! Glad you got through it and have fun things up next.

[spiralicious]

Excellent

[wiseheart]

Today I finished the front cover of the "Hello Kitty" booklet, and in a sudden bout of madness I started to cut out the bases of four other booklets. I've got five recipients, between the age of two and eight, either sisters or cousins of each other - it won't do for one of them to get a treat while the other one doesn't, right?

I decided to go into mass production mode - meaning that I won't complete one booklet and then go on to the other one. Instead, I'll do one phase at a time... or rather five times. That proved to be easier by other projects that required the same things to be done repeatedly.

[badly_knitted]

Sometimes the production line method is the best way of dealing with making several similar or identical items. It makes the job easier somehow.

[peaceful_sands]

I'm impressed by your scaling up of the project! Will all of the booklets be the same?

[darkcedars]

ha, well, doing them all at once in a way is easier. You don't forget things.

[sister_raphael]

Oh wow! So much done!

[yarnofariadne]

I think that's a sensible way to tackle these. Good luck!

[spiralicious]

Mass production does tend to make projects where you're making multiples of similar/the same things go better, and sometimes even faster.

[peaceful_sands]

Yesterday and today I finally got to do a little work on the cross stitch. Given the vast quantity of ad breaks in DoI, I even made progress then!

[wiseheart]

Ad breaks can be useful sometimes. I always make the beds during them, or brush my teeth or other small tasks like that. ;)

[darkcedars]

Commercials are good for that!

[alafaye]

Nice.

[badly_knitted]

Ad breaks are good for crafting, and one of the reasons I like having something to knit during DoI. So pleased you got to do some cross stitch.

[sister_raphael]

progress still happened!

[yarnofariadne]

Hooray!

[alafaye]

Finished up a small cross stitch piece and finally dragged out a piece I'd begun but messed up within a few stitches -- I'd put it down because I got overwhelmed, but figured even messed up I could do something to finish it especially given that I hadn't messed up too badly. Sometimes just have to carry on I guess.

[darkcedars]

The little flowers look good. I'm sure you can fudge whatever was messed up in the other!

[darkcedars]

I've been working on my cardigan in small chunks today. I put it down where I can't see it but I still have 3-4 rows to go. Yesterday was a really pretty day. There was another clean-up day at Neighbor John's, I sat on the south side of the house in the sun, pulling nails and staples out of cedar shingles that they are going to feed through the wood chipper and make mulch.

Tonight we made almond flour pancakes. I really should have thought about them being more like bean or crab cakes, not pancakes. I think will do better next time. They're filling and were good with a little butter and jam.

[badly_knitted]

Well done with cardigan progress!

A fiddly but important job if the shingles are going in a chipper.

The pancakes sound yummy!

[sister_raphael]

I got a lot done on the kontusz. Gold trim on the jacket itself (armhole trim to do yet.) I got the button loops made and the tassels started. They don't quite match the gold across the chest but maybe it's not noticeable. I may need to speak to the guy who I'm sewing this for and see what he thinks.

[badly_knitted]

So much detail!

[spiralicious]

Quickly checking in on my way to bed, I added about 10 more rows to the scarf while watching 1950s Superman.

I also looked at several other projects, and actually picked up and handled a couple of them, but I did not work on them.

[yarnofariadne]

Well done!