Check-In Post February 18th 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 have picked up stitches around the neck of my sweater and ribbed the first row, but that's all I got done because the day turned really dull and overcast and couldn't see well enough to tell if it looked right. Because of the colour of the yarn, turning the light on didn't make it any clearer.

[wiseheart]

Yeah, artificial light can mislead you in that area. So un-curteous of the weather!

[smallhobbit]

That's a major achievement - picking up stitches for the neck is always hard and it doesn't help when the weather decides to continue being miserable.

[darkcedars]

Ugh annoying

[peaceful_sands]

Sorry you didn't get to finish the neckband. What's going to be next once you do get this one done?

[spiralicious]

Sorry the weather was uncooperative

[wiseheart]

Page #2 of Baby Book #3 is finished. That makes - so far - 10 pages out of 33 altogether, if one counts the front cover and the insides of both covers. Not bad in itself, but still an awful lot to do.

[smallhobbit]

That sounds very good, it may feel like there's a lot left to do, but you've made a great start.

[darkcedars]

Nearly a third, fingers crossed you continue to have time.

[badly_knitted]

It means there are only another 23 to go, so that's great!

[peaceful_sands]

It's good steady progress - even if you still have a long way to go.

[spiralicious]

You are doing great! Each page is a step closer to victory!

[smallhobbit]

I spent a while putting right some stitches where I'd made a mistake - it's back on track now.

I also did a post on some papercraft, for anyone not on my flist here

[darkcedars]

That paper thing is very cool!

[badly_knitted]

Oh dear, how annoying for you =(

The papercraft was cool though.

[peaceful_sands]

I love the papercraft images - fantastic!

[spiralicious]

Great work on being able to fix your mistake.

That paper layer art is very nice

[darkcedars]

Last night I finished the second hat. Today all I've done is write up my notes (since I mostly made this up as I went along). They aren't identical.

I much fear that I have caught a SECOND cold while still exhausted from the first! Unfair! But that is what happens when one member of the household works at a grocery store and another an elementary school.

[badly_knitted]

Cute hats and lovely colours!

Oh no! You need something to boost your immune system *hugs*

[smallhobbit]

Those hats are lovely! Sorry about the cold - definitely both places are germ hives.

[peaceful_sands]

The hats look great - well done. I hope you feel better soon .

[spiralicious]

They look great! And good work on writing your notes up right away.

Oh no! That is very unfair, if, unfortunately, somewhat unavoidable.

[peaceful_sands]

I took some breaks between chores and favours for other people and worked on my painting. I'm quite a good way through it now, but still not sure that it's going to look good when I've finished. I wonder if it's one of those things that might look better at a distance. I hope to get some more done tomorrow - if I can finish my chores in time (and the work I need to do for work *sigh*)

[spiralicious]

You are making good progress on the painting.

And speaking from experience, paintings almost always look better both at a distance and some emotional distance (meaning after you are completely done and having looked at in awhile), regardless if paint by number or otherwise. You just got to trust the process until then.

[spiralicious]

I finished the baby blanket!

I also did some mental plotting for my altered book, so I have a better idea if what kind of prep to do to it Monday.

And sort of crafting, I used my new to me paper trimmer. The accordion file holder I keep my magazine clippings in needs to be organized and the best way to do that is to use file folders (which were ridiculously difficult to get locally). The problem once I got them was that they were about a 1/16 of an inch too big for the file holder. I could get them in, it was just not pretty. So I figured out how much I could trim off on each side and the clippings would still be protected, taking off as much as I could for optimal ease of sliding in and out of the slots, then trimmed all 48 I had on hand. For whatever reason, they did not all trim up the same, so I have some adjustments to make later, but for now it works.

I tried to have kind of a catch up day to help make up all the "blanket fort" days I've had this month, but I am still moving sorta slow and most things take longer than I think they're going to. I am doing my best to be okay with that.

[badly_knitted]

Yay! That was very fast.

Oooh, I love a good paper trimmer! There's something quite satisfying about cutting things to a usable size.

You'll catch up when you have more energy and you're feeling less stressed. Don't push yourself too hard, that only adds unnecessary stress. You're doing fine, even if you're behind where you'd like to be with some things.

[sister_raphael]

Pinned! And it's sewn up too, to be honest, but I haven't the photo on my laptop yet.

[badly_knitted]

Woohoo! Well done! The silk looks lush.