Check-In Post August 26th 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]

10 of the bonus spiders are finished! Also I've dug out my shirring elastic and it seems okay. Fingers crossed.

[syderia]

🤞

[spiralicious]

Hurray and finger crossed

[m_findlow]

Fingers crossed for you. I'm guessing you'll need an awful lot of elastic for all those spiders!

[syderia]

The unicorn's head is growing.
I also managed, by visiting two different stores, to get the materials for the second project after the unicorn (first project will be a hairband for which I already have the correct yarn) and for a random project for the lines tomorrow.

[badly_knitted]

Yay! Sounds like you're well prepared.

[wiseheart]

Getting the right materials is very important!

[darkcedars]

Being ready for 3 projects! Nice.

[spiralicious]

Very nice

[m_findlow]

Exciting news! Hopefully unicorn will soon look like a unicorn!

[wiseheart]

I managed to sew in another page for the songbook and made another little purse, despite being cooked alive over here. So the day wasn't completely wasted. Go me!

[badly_knitted]

Yay, well done! Sorry you're so hot =(

[darkcedars]

Glad you got some crafting before it heated up for the day.

[spiralicious]

Way to go!

[m_findlow]

Yay for progress! Sounds like summer isn't giving up any time soon.

[darkcedars]

Heat wave broke with rain this morning. Yesterday it was 105F, down to a comfortable 83 now.

I'm working on a last dishcloth. Also did some more sanding and felt like I made good progress.

[spiralicious]

Hurray and good job :D

[m_findlow]

Sounds like the sanding has been a big job. Well done on your progress.

[badly_knitted]

Glad you're at tolerable temperatures now.

How many dishcloths got made this round?

Well done! Sanding is doable now it's not so hot.

[wiseheart]

Comfortable temperatures are good for working and crafting. So nice that the heat wave broke. We did have rain a week or so ago, quite a lot of it, but it only made thing worse: wet heat instead of dry heat.

[spiralicious]

I added to the drop stitch shawl while camped out on the couch, watching Letterkenny. I had planned on also working on the full sized baby blanket, but I just felt too sickly to make it happen.

[m_findlow]

All progress is good progress!

[badly_knitted]

Rest. You can only do what you can manage. Hope you feel better soon.

[m_findlow]

A victim of too many projects and not enough time at the moment.
Have temporarily shelved my crotchet squares for projects with outcomes.
Cross stitch is getting closer to being finished but also sidelined by a knitted scarf project.
I found a really simple mistake rib that even a knitting dunce like me can do, and bought two kinds of wool - one burgundy red and another mixed (pink, white, blue, green and black).
Slow going on the knitting with the mixed yarn. It suggested 4mm needles but looked too loose to me after knitting a few inches so switched to 3.25mm and started over, which is a much better gauge. Whatever they say, no two 8 plys are the same. I thought it was finer than the burgundy before I started so feel justified by the needle change.
Probably too late to start knitting warm scarves coming up to spring but I always wear scarves (thick woolen or thin fabric). Oh well, at least by next autumn I should have two new scarves!

[badly_knitted]

Great work on the cross stitch!

Yay for scarves! Sometimes you just have to follow your instincts when it comes to gauge. I prefer a tighter knit, floppy knitting catches on everything. Sounds like you've got it sorted to suit you. The colours sound great!

[tielan]

Quilt is done and handed in!

[badly_knitted]

Congratulations! It looks amazing!