Check-In Post April 1st 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 more rows completed, but it hasn't been smooth sailing. I messed up, lost a stitch and had to undo two rows.


I've also apparently lost the ability to add up, because I decided if I could do 18 rows one day and 20 the other, I could complete the 2nd pattern repeat in just two days. But today I realised 18 and 20 only make 38, not 48, so I guess I won't manage what I was hoping for. Brains! Why are they so hard to use?

[yarnofariadne]

Oh no, I'm sorry it was a rough road today :(

[wiseheart]

Maths are the spawn of Sauron! I can't even count the biscuits/cakes/whatever I've messed up because I didn't have the tins the size the recipes required and tried to calculate the right amount of ingredients for a different size.

[darkcedars]

Ugh. This is surely nothing I've ever done, not familiar at all. :P

[spiralicious]

Brains should come with instruction manuals

[yarnofariadne]

I was right about not finishing up the first skein yesterday, but I did get the second skein joined in on the rainbow scarf today! I'm taking a little break but will probably be back at it later this evening.

[wiseheart]

A little break is always good - it enables you to look at your project from a distance. (Of course, taking a 6-8-year break in the middle of a fanfic doesn't really help...)

[darkcedars]

Sounds good! Will be looking forward to seeing it (if possible) I like rainbow.

[badly_knitted]

You're doing really well though!

[spiralicious]

Well done

[celli]

Friends, my scarf turned into a pyramid again. I thought I was doing it right! I'm so frutrated. I know I should count better but I pick it up and set it down so often that it's really hard for me to keep track.

Sigh. Maybe I'll switch to amugurini, where you totally have to count but it's smaller numbers.

:(

[wiseheart]

You can always wear it as a head scarf or a shawl, can't you?

[darkcedars]

Annoying. I do have a couple scarves that were meant to be like that though!

[badly_knitted]

How annoying for you =(

Maybe some amugurini will prove more soothing.

[spiralicious]

I'm sorry. That sucks.

[yarnofariadne]

Oh no, I'm so sorry :(

[wiseheart]

I've baked mutant hybrid Easter bunnies today. Their momma was a rabbit, their dad probably a pig. You can view the results here, if you are very, very brave. *g*

And that is as crafty as I got today, I'm afraid.

[darkcedars]

Those are funny, are they flavored like the other day?

[badly_knitted]

I think they're cute.

[spiralicious]

They are ADORABLE

[yarnofariadne]

I love them so much XD

[althea_valara]

Monthly crafting update post in my journal, here: https://xnera.dreamwidth.org/1134827.html

I have Big Plans for this month. For one, I need to finish the stuffed toy for the baby shower, which is on the 16th, I believe? Planning on working on that this afternoon.

I also need to start third nephew's graduation blanket. I do have over a year, BUT he has a cousin graduating at the same time so I want to get an early start and get his done.

Plus there's the usual Nerdopolis shenanigans, and a couple of other bigger projects I have planned. Gonna be busy! But I should have time to work on it this month.

[darkcedars]

Starting the blanket early is a good plan, that way you can take a break from it if you need to.

[alafaye]

I've been managing a bit of time each night this week to work on a cross stitch I had abandoned in frustration. I've made a few more mistakes, but nothing too terrible. I'm actually happy with how it's coming out despite my errors.

[darkcedars]

Great, that you like it an are having fun after frustration.

[darkcedars]

Have been working on more of the humidifier mineral catchers - I'm out.

I emptied the project bags and the big basket. Scraps and printed patterns have been put away, yarn bands tossed.

[badly_knitted]

Well done for clearing up from completed projects!

You do seem to go through a lot of the mineral catchers!

[spiralicious]

I was all prepared to seize a new day, a new month. That is not what happened.

On the bright side, I did start another knitting project. I have no clue what I'll end up doing with it. It's the same baby blanket pattern from before, but it's going to be too small to be a baby blanket. I really just needed something to work on to try and destress while I watched The Sea Beast. The yarn is so soft though.

Oh and I tried to deliver my aunt's gift bag and she wasn't home.

[yarnofariadne]

Sometimes it's nice to just have something to keep your hands busy even if it's not going to be anything!