Check-In Post August 15th 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]

Finished the ends off on the last 100 rings I've done. Yay! I now have 300 ready to match with spiders.

[wiseheart]

Fantastic! :)

[badly_knitted]

Thanks =)

[yarnofariadne]

Yay!

[badly_knitted]

Thanks =)

[syderia]

Yay!

[badly_knitted]

Thanks =)

[wiseheart]

I've laid the baby book aside for a bit (it's my horrible custom to delay the binding part as long as possible; I hate doing it) and picked up the felt songbook again. The individual pages are all done, thank goodness, so I started sewing together the corresponding pages. Three out of five double pages are done, two more to go. Of course, these three were the "easy ones": it's an absolute misery to stitch through five to seven layers, but at least it's simple blanket stitch.

The front and back covers (that need to be stitched to the first and last page, respectively) will be much more complicated. And then comes the binding that I still dread.

[yarnofariadne]

Best of luck with the binding, and well done on the felt songbook progress!

[wiseheart]

Thanks. :)

[syderia]

Yay for progress!

[wiseheart]

Yay indeed. :)

[badly_knitted]

Sounds like you're at the toughest stage of both projects, so good luck!

[wiseheart]

Thank you, I'll definitely need it!

[yarnofariadne]

Finished row 69 today; I was hanging out with a friend today and was too tired to get much more done, but I'm glad there was a little progress, at least!

[syderia]

Yay!

[badly_knitted]

Don't forget your rows are getting quite long now, so even one row is great progress!

[yarnofariadne]

Very true!

[syderia]

Between yesterday and today, I managed one back leg of the unicorn. Next up is probably the horn, then the other back leg.

[badly_knitted]

Your unicorn is progressing in stages =)

[syderia]

Yup!

[yarnofariadne]

Glad to hear the unicorn is taking shape!

[syderia]

Thanks!

[m_findlow]

Still learning my way through crochet basics, going back to square one (no pun intended) with some books mum bought with loads of different squares in increasing levels of complexity. The blue squares are the first four from the book, the others ones I've retried since brushing up on some basics.



These are the books I've been using. Lots of good little tips in them and lots of photos step by step. Includes both UK and US versions of each pattern. She also does a YouTube channel that shows you each square as well if you get stuck.

[badly_knitted]

Great work on the squares!

The books look really useful.

[yarnofariadne]

Ooh very cool!

[syderia]

They look great!

[spiralicious]

You're doing great!