Check-In Post August 28th 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]

The last 5 bonus spiders are done, and I've cut some lengths of elastic ready for trying to attach spiders to rings.

[wiseheart]

Yay!

[badly_knitted]

Thanks!

[syderia]

Yay!

[badly_knitted]

Thank you!

[spiralicious]

Woot!

[badly_knitted]

Thanks!

Happy dance!

[wiseheart]

I've finished the felt songbook. Sewing in all the pages and making the spine was a gargantuan task; at one point I had to stitch through eight layers, but at least I know now what I'll do differently with the second one. I hope I'll still remember when I get there. But it is done now, and I'm incredibly relieved. My poor fingers are lobbying for a short break, so I might take a day or two off. Not more, though, as the Christmas fair will come in three and a half months, and that is less time than non-crafty people might think. ;))

Re: Happy dance!

[badly_knitted]

Yay, congratulations! *breaks out the ginger beer*

Make some notes about what you'll do differently, so you won't forget.

Yes, time goes by so fast it'll be Christmas before we know it.

Re: Happy dance!

[wiseheart]

Thanks for the ginger beer! And yeah, it's a huge relief to be done.

Re: Happy dance!

[badly_knitted]

You're welcome, I like to share ;)

Re: Happy dance!

[syderia]

Congratulations on the felt book!

Re: Happy dance!

[wiseheart]

Thank you, I'm happy for it to be over. Now I can pick up the other two unfinished felt books. And the Christmas projects. And think of something for the two boys who'll have their 3rd birthday in a month's time or so...

Re: Happy dance!

[spiralicious]

Congratulations!

Re: Happy dance!

[wiseheart]

Thanks :))

[tielan]

Didn't end up getting started on the bindings, did a Crafting Hang-out instead, and sewed together stars for the Restless Hands quilt:



I feel like the star patterns are getting lost in the colours, but I'm not sure what to do about it.

[syderia]

They're pretty!

[badly_knitted]

They're beautiful! Some of them stand out well, especially the blue on yellow and yellow on blue.

[wiseheart]

Yes, I think, too, that those are the best.

[spiralicious]

Very pretty

[spiralicious]

My internet finally came back!

I was too sore to do much of anything today, but I did attempt to watercolor paint a full moon to use in the background of my Halloween village and I knitted a couple rows on the drop stitch shawl.

I did not go back and help my dad get the last few things from the storage unit. He managed to enlist one of the guys he works with sometimes to help and my mother helped clean up the unit.

[badly_knitted]

Yay, internet! Also moon painting and knitting!

Glad your dad was able to get someone else to help finish clearing out the unit.

[spiralicious]

Thanks!

Me too! He was very determined and I was worried he was going to try to do it all himself, which technically he did try, but thankfully Young Corrigan didn't listen XD

[badly_knitted]

At least that's one big job done.

[spiralicious]

Yes!

[wiseheart]

Hmmm... I have vague memories of knitting a drop stitch scarf, back in the 1980s - is that the kind when you pull it apart once you are done and it becomes twice as long?

[spiralicious]

I think that is called a drop stitch scarf, but I am not sure.

This is a basic simple beginners shawl, but every 3 inches, you do 4 repetitions dropping every other stitch for the entire row, making these giant holes. I think that is where the pattern got its name for this one.