Check-In Post June 9th 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]

After a few busy days, I decided to have a lazy one so I just sat around maki ng 20 sets of spider legs. I think that leaves approximately 60 sets to do. No idea how many spiders I have cut out altogether though...

[wiseheart]

You have an interesting concept of "lazy". *g*

[badly_knitted]

All I was doing was sitting down, so that's definitely lazy in my book =)

[darkcedars]

I hope the spider legs were relaxing!

[badly_knitted]

It's just sitting and twiddling yarn, so it's a nice, mindless task. I made another 12 sets while watching TV.

[spiralicious]

Sounds like a good day :)

[badly_knitted]

It was quite good, thanks =)

[wiseheart]

I've made two small tags together - had to redo the first one because the inscription looked really ugly - and worked a bit on the smaller ones. I hope to make better progress tomorrow as I won't have to leave the house for a change, but we'll see.

I also visited another craft shop today. I wanted craft punches, but while they had a great quantity of the stuff, all of them were either angels or flowers or holly leaves - all of which I already have. None of the simple, geometric ones I would need. Ah, well, I can always cut out stuff by hand, but punches would have made things so much easier...

[darkcedars]

Odd, but perhaps the geometric ones get bought up quickest.

[wiseheart]

That is possible. Those are the most practical ones, after all.

[badly_knitted]

Too bad you had to redo one, but you still did well!

Punches are very useful, if you can get the right shapes, but that's never easy.

[wiseheart]

Not to mention that I still have to find at least one that would cut felt. I had to cut out four pairs of animal eyes today, with a diameter of about 3 millimetres each, and it was a real misery.

[badly_knitted]

I use an ordinary hold punch for making the holes for ring-binders to cut small circles, but they might be a bit bigger than 3mm.

[wiseheart]

My punches adamantly refuse to cut felt properly. *sigh*

[badly_knitted]

So sorry =(

Thicker felt is impossible for punches anyway, but it's not always possible to find the thinner felt.

[spiralicious]

Too bad about the punches.

Good luck tomorrow.

[wiseheart]

Annoying, yeah. They'd make decoration work so much easier. I've got quite a few, but for some reason never the right size or motif.

[spiralicious]

There is something about craft tools that no matter how many you have, you never have the right size or motif somehow. It's like a rule or something.

[darkcedars]

I've been going back and forth between garden work and the bathroom redo project. And of course, always chores.

[badly_knitted]

You're being kept very busy with your current garden and house projects!

[darkcedars]

Weeding when I've planted a "wildflower mix" is...causing some cursing.

[badly_knitted]

LMAO! How can you tell what's a wildflower and what's a weed... Tricky!

[darkcedars]

I will definitely consider this in future plantings!

[badly_knitted]

Sounds wise. *nods*

[spiralicious]

*\o/*

[readera]

I worked on both of my knitting projects. Still working on undoing the bottom hem of the bralette so I can add more length & I worked on some fingerless gloves during a work meeting.

[spiralicious]

Great work

[readera]

Thanks!

[badly_knitted]

You'll be set for both summer and winter!

[readera]

Yup!

[spiralicious]

No crafting today? At some point I took an emery board to my broken knitting needle and tried it out. It's much less hurty now. I just can't remember when I did that, besides since I checked in last.

Yesterday evening I went to my sister's and hurt my wrist playing with one of the dogs. It's very minor and I didn't even realize until this morning, but I felt like I should take a knitting break just the same.

Instead, I finished up the horrible book for book club I've been avoiding. I worry I'm being too hard on it, but I really do hate it.

[badly_knitted]

Glad the knitting needle is improved, and sorry to hear about your wrist. Injuries can happen doing the most innocuous things.

Some books simply don't suit certain readers. Other people might enjoy it but that doesn't mean you have to. Hating it is still a valid opinion.

[spiralicious]

Thanks! The wrist was at least partially on me for playing tug of war with a hyper, full grown husky, one handed.

Indeed.

[badly_knitted]

That would do anyone's wrist in, lol!

[spiralicious]

Very much so!

[wiseheart]

Finishing up a book you really hate is quite the task. I usually try to do that, but there were a selected few I decided not to waste my life on them. (And they were considered classics, too!)

[spiralicious]

It was a very hard lesson for me to learn that life is too short to not just stop reading some books, even if they are considered classics.

[myrtaceaae]

I'm new to this community, so first up, Hi!
Projects are progressing slowly but surely. Finished crocheting my mindless crop top, now waiting on a wool order before I can start my C2C adventurer mouse rug (also gotta write all the charts into words...)
Have to finish sewing my practice C2C - Miffy together, endless weaving in of ends :/
On the knitting front, my mesh t-shirt is hitting a bit off a wall as I get bored with the repetitive nature of it... but it shall be done!

[badly_knitted]

Hi! *waves*

Good luck with the transcribing of charts and all the sewing up. Weaving in ends is one of the worst parts, along with the actual sewing up. I still have a sweater to knit the neckband and sew up, but I've shoved that aside in favour of more fun projects.

I can be difficult to maintain motivation when working on a repetitive pattern, but determination will prevail, I'm sure. You'll get there.

[myrtaceaae]

I am getting there, slowly slowly....

[badly_knitted]

Yes, those things can take forever.