Check-In Post February 11th 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

[spiralicious]

More stitch and stream today, I watched some anime and this week's Svengoolie was a showing of Killer Klowns from Outer Space, while I started working on the body of the baby blanket. I am 13 rows in and it's finally starting to actually look like a blanket.

[badly_knitted]

That's great progress on the blanket! What colour is it?

[spiralicious]

Thanks!

The color is called onyx. It's part of Red Heart's gemstone line. All of them have two different variegated yarns twisted together in one strand. (I hope I got all those words right.) In this one, both colors are actually variegated white to black, but going in opposite directions and fading at different rates, so the same shades of grey never quite meet.

In the store, I thought it was white to black and the other was shades of blue. Ah, lighting.

I've made a few other projects with the amethyst color, it's shades of grey twisted with shades of purple.

[badly_knitted]

Both sound gorgeous! I love variegated yarns anyway. Artificial lighting does screw with the ability to correctly tell what colour something is though, and somehow it's worse in shops. (I love anything gemstone colours).

[spiralicious]

The whole line is beautiful and they're so soft. I love having an excuse to use it.

I sometimes wonder if the lighting in stores is extra screwy on purpose, but I don't see the profit of it because it's not like they make it more flattering.

[badly_knitted]

If I can't see something properly I ask if I can take it over to the door or window to look at it in natural light.

[spiralicious]

That is a very good idea