Check-In Post May 13th 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

[wiseheart]

I've put in all the temporary stitches to the outer cover of my textile book. It was a lot of work; I had to stitch double rows because of the lining. Those will be ironed on later, but it has been my experience that they aren't as self-adhesive as they are said to be, hence the stitching. I don't want the fabric to wander off under my hands when I'm putting the book together. It's bad enough that the fabric inevitably stretches and loses some of it shape when being hand-sewn.

I also started to re-learn how to knit. It was a present surprise to realize that I actually still remembered how to do the two most basic stitches. Now I have a small practice piece on which I can experiment how to create various patterns using aforementioned basic stitches. It is more fun than I expected.

[badly_knitted]

It sounds very tricky, but with luck it will all come together right.

YAY! Have fun with your experiments. One you gain a bit of confidence you can make yourself something nice.

[wiseheart]

Hah! The only thing I've ever knitted was a scarf... well, two scarves, actually, and both ended up rather lopsided. But experimenting is fun. *g*

[badly_knitted]

You never know what you can do until you try. In my experience, finding something you really WANT to make is what inspires you to keep trying until you succeed. The first thing I made from a pattern that I actually finished was a little matinee coat when my sister was expecting her first baby. It might well have ben the most complicated pattern in the shop, but I loved it. Took me forever to figure out the pattern, I kept having to start over, but then it clicked and I've been knitting ever since.

If you're knitting something that doesn't excite you, that makes it easy to lose interest and give up.

[darkcedars]

That's a lot of progress, and good luck with the knitting.