Check-In Post April 21st 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]

It poured with rain half the night and all morning. It did stop this afternoon, but by then I'd done a load of laundry and was wrestling with writing something for a challenge with no clear idea of what it was I was trying to write. Then I had to write something else for another challenge, so in the end, between writing and chores, I ran out of time, so no gardening or crafting. Maybe tomorrow I'll get time for crafting, I'll have to wait and see.

[wiseheart]

That sounds like a demanding day. Better luck tomorrow!

[badly_knitted]

Very demanding, but I got things done, and once I was halfway through my fic and knew where I was going with it, the second half came together much faster.

[yarnofariadne]

I'm glad the second half wasn't as much of a struggle!

[badly_knitted]

Once my characters figure out what they're doing, I can let them get on with it. All through the first half, they kept looking at me, all confused, as we inched our way forward, looking for a solid plot, but we got there in the end.

[spiralicious]

That is quite a day!

I hope your writing came together in the end.

[badly_knitted]

It did. Once I was halfway through I figured out where I was heading and the rest came together quickly.

[spiralicious]

Wonderful :D

[yarnofariadne]

A few more rows on the rainbow scarf - very close to casting off, though I probably won't block until after the move.

[wiseheart]

Steady progress is still good.

[badly_knitted]

That sounds wise, since it might get scrunched in the move.

[spiralicious]

*\o/*

[wiseheart]

I managed to make some small embellishments for the Hello Kitty booklets, namely the coffee table with a coffee jug and a mug for each living room. Tiny, tiny pieces that I had to handle with my sausage fingers. Lots and lots of time required for each move. *sigh*

[badly_knitted]

Fiddly work, so well done for getting it done.

[wiseheart]

Very fiddly indeed.

[spiralicious]

Kudos on getting that bit done. Those tiny bits can be such a pain, both in the making and the placement.

Have you considered a pair of tweezers? Having sausage fingers myself, I have found they can be helpful placing the extra small pieces sometimes.

[wiseheart]

Oh, I do have a very fine pair of tweezers! Inherited it from my Grandpa, who was an avid stamp collector. Alas, I'm not very good with them, although I do use them from time to time.

[spiralicious]

Ah, I see.

(I have 1960s Batman playing on the TV right now and he just pulled out his "trusty bat-tweezers" to deal with a poisonous fruit fly on Robin's nose and I find the timing hilarious.)

[yarnofariadne]

Well done on such a difficult task!

[wiseheart]

Thanks, I'm glad it's done.

[spiralicious]

I can't believe it's the 21st already.

The second not-a-baby-blanket only has 12 rows and the bottom border left. I've been knitting on it in little spits and spurts all week. Every day has had its own (or multiple) minor crises. Each have been resolved or at least at a point where it's all that can be done for now, but it's been stressful and, obviously, disruptive. I had some classes and meetings coming up I've been excited about, but now I don't know if it's just going to be too much on top of everything else that's been happening. But I also don't want to miss out. We'll see.

[yarnofariadne]

I can't believe it, either! Where did this month go?

I'm so sorry it's been such a stressful week. Well done for making progress despite that! I hope the upcoming events turn out well, too.

[spiralicious]

I know!

Thanks :)

[badly_knitted]

Well done on the blanket! I hope you do get to your classes and meetings, and that all the crises settle down so the stress can melt away.

[spiralicious]

Thank you :)

[wiseheart]

You are a hero to have done this much on a such demanding week. Perhaps a change of tapestry will do you some good?

[spiralicious]

Thanks :)

It does sound tempting. This blanket is pattern is extremely easy - right side: knit 5 stitches, purl the rest of the row until the last 5 stitches and knit those; wrong side: knit the whole row. I almost don't have to think about it.

But I might look at some patterns just the same.