Check-In Post March 31st 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]

18 rows on the front, so that's the first pattern repeat completed. Yay!

[yarnofariadne]

Yay!!

[badly_knitted]

Thanks!

[smallhobbit]

We're delighted to let you know
Concerning the pattern repeat
The knitting is starting to flow
And the first one is now complete

[badly_knitted]

Woooo!

Thank you!

[wiseheart]

Go you!

[badly_knitted]

Thank you!

[spiralicious]

Whoo hoo!

[badly_knitted]

I am very pleased =)

[yarnofariadne]

Migraine kept me from knitting again yesterday (all better now!) but I'm back working on the rainbow scarf this evening. I'm getting down to the end of the first skein - I don't think I'll quite finish it tonight, but it's getting close.

[smallhobbit]

I'm glad you're better now and your scarf is going well.

[wiseheart]

Work as long as you enjoy it; no need to put pressure on yourself, especially after a migraine.

[yarnofariadne]

I'm very happy to work on it! I was sad when I didn't have the energy yesterday.

[badly_knitted]

Ugh, you are getting too many migraines. I started the day with a bad headache myself, but for once taking a painkiller actually worked.

Hope your migraines are history now so you can do the things you want to do.

Good luck on the scarf!

[yarnofariadne]

I've had chronic migraines since I was 12 so it's at least not anything new! I suspect the weather we had here wasn't helping.

I'm glad your headache went away!

[badly_knitted]

I spent years having hormone-induced migraines for three days every two weeks, so I can empathise.

I have another headache today, but it's not as bad as yesterday's. Probably mostly stress and the weather.

[spiralicious]

Glad to hear you're feeling better!

[wiseheart]

I've finished decorating my biscuits, adding coloured parts to the hens and chickens and roosters. Does that count? Because I really didn't have the time (or energy) do do anything else even remotely crafty.

[yarnofariadne]

That definitely counts!

[badly_knitted]

It definitely counts! There is an art to decorating biscuits!

[wiseheart]

Well, today's batch certainly won't qualify as a work of art, but I did my best.

[badly_knitted]

Maybe they're abstract art, or impressionism...

[wiseheart]

Weeell... there's abstract art, there's impressionism and there's clumsiness. You may guess three times in which category my biscuits belong. *g*

[badly_knitted]

I'm sure they'll taste great regardless of how you think they look.

[spiralicious]

Definitely crafty!

[galeogirl]

I got in a few rows on a wall pocket that I'm crocheting for a friend's camper van project. She's doing her inaugural van trip to Yellowstone in June so I was going to give her the wall pocket, a stick-on hook, and a package of her favorite instant chai sticks for the road.

[spiralicious]

Very cool

[yarnofariadne]

That sounds like a cool project and a fun trip for your friend!

[badly_knitted]

That sounds like a wonderful idea, handy storage as well as being decorative. I'm sure your friend will appreciate it.

[spiralicious]

Only crafting adjacent things today - I caught up on posting my national crafting month posts on Instagram, even if it's not as many as I wanted for the month, and I put everything together in my aunt's gift bag in the bag. Her bunny's ears had to get glued back on and I never found any candy, but it should be okay.

I tried doing a few other things, but just ended up spinning my wheels.

[yarnofariadne]

It's nice to catch up on posts; I always feel so accomplished just clearing out a backlog. I hope it was a satisfying endeavour for you!

[spiralicious]

It was very satisfying!

[badly_knitted]

You got a lot sorted anyway. I hope the bunny's ears stay put this time! Too bad about the lack of candy though.