Check-In Post April 23rd 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 rained most of the day so I stayed indoors and wrote, and then I managed to fit in some crafting! I continued with the small owl design I started a year or two ago. There are two more to do from the set when I finish this one. I've already stitched 9 of the designs.

[celli]

I love owls! It's been raining here a lot too.

[badly_knitted]

Yay! Lifelong passion for owls here, one my mum shared. I'm enjoying stitching them =)

[yarnofariadne]

Yay owls!

[badly_knitted]

Yay indeed!

I need an owl icon...

[alexcat]

We have SUN! but so much pollen that the world is yellow! I am staying indoors, crocheting and wishing that my writing mojo would return.

[badly_knitted]

Yikes! Pollen is EVIL! (even with my antihistamines I'm still suffering itchy eyes).

I hope you find your writing mojo again soon. Maybe it's down the back of the sofa...

[celli]

Fingers crossed on your mojo!!!

[wiseheart]

Awww, the return of the pretty owls!

[badly_knitted]

I'm pleased to get back to them, but there are so many other things I want to stitch...

[celli]

I've been AWOL due to work & life stress, but I have been stress stitching, and I just finished this gentleman:

[yarnofariadne]

Ooh this is fabulous!

[celli]

Thank you so much!!!!!

[alexcat]

Lovely!

[celli]

Thank you! :)

[wiseheart]

Amazing!

[badly_knitted]

Stress stitching is good for you! He looks great!

[celli]

:D Thank you!

[yarnofariadne]

Just finished weaving in the ends on the rainbow scarf! I thought about casting on the red infinity scarf but I have so much to do in the next few days, I'll probably hold off until I've had a chance to block the rainbow scarf.

[celli]

That sounds awesome!

[alexcat]

Love to make scarves... they make me feel accomplished.

[wiseheart]

That is great!

[badly_knitted]

You're going to be very busy so maybe it's best not to start anything new quite yet. There'll be time for that once you're moved in.

[alexcat]

I'm chugging along, crocheting on hubby's afghan, hubby some fingerless gloves and a potholder. I've found that I need some short projects going because sometimes I just need to have a thing done!

[wiseheart]

We all need the feeling of accomplishment. :)

[badly_knitted]

All crafters need that, so we can feel we've accomplished something when big projects just go on and on. You're doing great!

[celli]

I love doing a little thing when a big thing is taking forever. A sense of accomplishment is so important!

[yarnofariadne]

I feel the same way about short projects! I'm glad to hear you have a few good ones on the go :D

Hello Kitty!

[wiseheart]

Sooo, the little folding booklets are all completed (I even added the bedside lamp, after all), and I've posted an ungodly amount of picspam to my LJ. Be warned, though, the colours could make your eyes bleed. *g*

Re: Hello Kitty!

[badly_knitted]

Fabulous! I'm sure you're glad to have them done though.

Re: Hello Kitty!

[wiseheart]

"immensely relieved" would be the right expression *g*

Re: Hello Kitty!

[badly_knitted]

That's understandable.

Re: Hello Kitty!

[celli]

They're amazing!!!!

Re: Hello Kitty!

[wiseheart]

Thank you. :)

Re: Hello Kitty!

[yarnofariadne]

Oh I love them!

Re: Hello Kitty!

[wiseheart]

Sometimes a bit of kitsch is good for the soul. *g*