Check-In Post March 2nd 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

[badly_knitted]

Today hasn't been fun, and now I have a splitting headache. I knitted one row while waiting to leave for my appointments, but it wasn't relaxing me so I gave up. Hoping to knit a bit while watching TV, starting in a few minutes.

[wiseheart]

Oh, poor you! Some days can be really unpleasant! *hugs*

[badly_knitted]

Hospital appointments are never fun, especially late afternoon so you get stuck in traffic on the way home and a ten minute drive takes half an hour, with detours because of roadworks, and more traffic lights than I could count. So tired now *sigh*

[yarnofariadne]

I'm so sorry. *hugs*

[badly_knitted]

Thanks. At least yesterday is behind me.

[spiralicious]

*hugs*

[badly_knitted]

Thanks. I'm still exhausted from the stress

[wiseheart]

I made the page bases for the twin pages of Baby Book #1. Which means that - save for a few embellishments - all pages of that particular book are done (since I decided to only have four double-sided pages per book, instead of five as originally planned). If I can keep up speed - and that is a BIG "if", since days like these are rare like hens' teeth - I might actually finish all three books on schedule. *fingers crossed*

[badly_knitted]

Crossing my fingers too, I hope everything will go smoothly.

Well done with your progress.

[wiseheart]

"Smooth" isn't the way how things went today. :(

[badly_knitted]

Sorry to hear that =(

[yarnofariadne]

Fingers crossed for you!

[spiralicious]

Great job!

And fingers crossed for you.

[alexcat]

I finished my crochet potholder. It's not very pretty but it will do the job.

[badly_knitted]

Potholders don't have to be pretty as long as they do what they're meant to. Well done for getting it finished!

[wiseheart]

As long as it does you are winning. :)

[yarnofariadne]

Well done!

[spiralicious]

Good work :)

[badly_knitted]

In the end I managed 18 rows on my sweater. Not going to get this one knitted as fast as the last one, that's for sure.

[wiseheart]

But you can take your time, can't you?

[badly_knitted]

Yes, I can, but I wanted to get this one done quickly before I want to be out working in the garden all the time. There are less stitches to this one, it should be progressing faster and it's just not. It's annoying.

[tielan]

Finished one binding!

[yarnofariadne]

Hooray!

[spiralicious]

Excellent!

[badly_knitted]

Yay, well done!

[annofowlshire]

Each day I see the thread from the night before, think "ah, it's too late, I'll do tomorrow night's thread" and then I don't see/have ability to reply until well into the next day and the cycle goes again.

So I'll just stop worrying about it and post anyway.

My Jumper II continues. Finished the yoke, about halfway done with the body, and then it'll be the sleeves.

I had a mental blocker on returning to my spinning wheel--I don't much enjoy spinning "natural" colored yarn. I've tried and tried, but honestly I love bright colors and watching them blend. I have some colored wool and other add ins for blending batts, but that means I have to do that for and that in itself becomes a production.

So earlier this week I decided to solve this issue with currency and logged on to Etsy to buy some pre-dyed combed top in the kind of tie-dye patterns and colors I like. (I've used up all that I already had.) Later this year I want to pull out my dyes and make a batch of my own, but for now I'm happy to support other artists ^_^ Hopefully they'll show up in my mailbox soon!

[spiralicious]

Sometimes solving the issue with currency is the best one in the long run. (And supporting other artists is always a good thing ^_^)

[badly_knitted]

It's never too late to join in on the thread, just check in with whichever one is there since my posting time varies wildly, and people drop in and out whenever they like.

Great progress on your second jumper (I'm not doing anywhere near as well with mine). You'll be done in no time!

Also great that you've figured out what's been keeping you from spinning and taking steps to deal with it. Have fun spinning your pretty colours, and later on dying your own!

[annofowlshire]

Oh, and don't think I ever shared images of the jumper I finished before this one!

[spiralicious]

Lovely!

[badly_knitted]

It's pretty!

[spiralicious]

The last few days I've been working on resetting my sleep schedule, so everything has been off kilter. I have managed to knit though and the main rectangle for the bag is up to 11 inches now.

I've also done 2 out of the 5 perler bead Care Bears from the kit I got a few months ago.

In honor of National Craft Month, I'm trying to work through as many craft kits I've got sitting around as possible. (But slowly, for sanity's sake.)

[badly_knitted]

Great progress on the bag!

Oooh, beady bears? Is curious.

Sounds like you'll have fun working on various kits =)

[wiseheart]

Oooh, beady bears? Is curious.

Me, too! Pictures, please?

[spiralicious]

Thanks! I think it's closer to 18 inches now.

Basically, you have these tube shaped plastic beads in different colors and you arrange them on a peg board in patterns (think 8 bit graphics for a visual). When you have them how you want them, you put a protective piece of paper over them and iron them until they fuse together. There is a trick to how hot an iron and for how melty, as you want connected, but you should also still have a visible hole in each bead. You iron both sides, by the way. My kit made 5 care bears in their current configurations and each bear is about 5x2.5 inches.

Thanks!

[badly_knitted]

They sound fun and cute, but I'd probably mess up the ironing...