Check-In Post September 30th 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]

Decided to post early today because of Strictly Come Dancing.


I've worked some more on the cross stitch flowers, started the orange lily, then checked the chart and thought, Oh no, I'm using the wrong shade of orange! So I unpicked what I'd done, checked the chart and key, and realised I'd been using the right colour all along. *headdesk* The lily is the hardest part of the design because there are two symbols that are very similar right next to each other in the chart, and both are for shades of orange. Anyway, I did make a reasonable amount of progress.


Also, the charms I ordered a few days ago have arrived and they're brilliant =D

[wiseheart]

Oh dear, how frustrating! But at least the charms make you happy.

[badly_knitted]

I was annoyed with myself for not checking more carefully before unpicking. I might have saved some time.

[darkcedars]

I have, of course, NEVER done a similar thing such as ripping back to discover I was doing it right the first time. ;)

[badly_knitted]

*grins* Why of course, we crafters are far too clever to ever make such a mistake!

[spiralicious]

Hurray for progress and nice charms! Sorry about the frustration with the chart misread. That had to have been maddening.

[badly_knitted]

Fortunately I hadn't got far before unpicking and having to re-do it, but I wasted at least 15 minutes, which was annoying considering I have a tight deadline and will have to make the stitching into a card once it's finished.

[spiralicious]

That is fortunate, but definitely annoying

[badly_knitted]

Yeah =(

[wiseheart]

More tiny little things today because of very little time. We had our pre-birthday party (my actual birthday is still a week and a half away, but this was the time people could come), and a friend gifted a stack of assorted 15cm by 15cm felt squares upon me. :)

[badly_knitted]

Hope everyone had a good time at the party, and yay for the felt!

[wiseheart]

Oh, yes. we did - including the toddler, who was the only "man" present. *g*

[badly_knitted]

If there has to be a man involved, that's the best age ;)

[darkcedars]

Ah, you have leveled up and are doing a whole *birthday month*! Happy birthday in advance.

[wiseheart]

Thanks. We just celebrated earlier (for me) or late (for one of my friends), since this was the day most people could come.

[spiralicious]

Hope it was a wonderful time! What a very nice gift :)

[darkcedars]

I gave up on the leaves, and decided to make a giant bat instead. It has turned out, I am happy with it.



Looks okay on the porch, can't tell as far away as some of the others I've made.

[badly_knitted]

I love it! A very seasonal decoration indeed =)

Then again, I love bats.

[m_findlow]

Very cool!

[spiralicious]

It's a wonderful bat!

[wiseheart]

The bat looks great!

[spiralicious]

Today was a bit of a victory lap. I got my art hung up at the library. It will be tweaked a bit as we figured out we needed the industrial stapler to hold the hanging cords in place and we can't get it until Tuesday, but they are up and arranged and I don't care if they are crooked.

Also, with the aid of the library computers, I managed to get the part of the Fall Fest Bingo post that needed tweaked fixed so my co-host got the post up at allbingo. And I got the prompts for the table comm typed, edited, and sent to my co-mod so she can do the coding for the table and I got the table intro for it's post done and sent to her as well so the table can just go up when she is done. This was a sprint. I had an hour before art hanging and an hour afterwards and that prompt list ended up being 544 prompts after editing and removing duplicates.

I forced myself to relax the rest of the day as much as I was able to try to prevent myself from riding that high of good energy and getting myself into something I would not have the energy to finish later. October is crazy enough already. I don't need unplanned extra projects.

It did knit on the drop stitch shawl for a bit to try and expell some nervous energy, but I over did it. My left arm is already aching. It is close to done though. I'm pretty sure once I finish the current section, I will officially be out of needle space and need to cast off.

Sorry this is such word salad.

[badly_knitted]

Well done with all you accomplished! How long will your art be on display? Are you selling some of the pictures?

Glad you got all the prompt and table stuff sorted out, that sounds like a huge task, and a lot of prompts.

I know what you mean, sometimes it's easy to overdo things without realising and then you suffer for it later, which is never good.

Congratulations on almost finishing the shawl!

[spiralicious]

Thanks! The month of October. Art change date the last week is a little in the air, but we'll figure it out. They aren't displayed with prices, as the library is not equipped to deal with that, but almost all of them are technically for sale in that every other time they have been displayed, it's been with the intention of selling them. They've been in storage a long time though.

Thanks. It really was. I hope I haven't overwhelmed my co-mod.

Yes.

Thanks :)

[badly_knitted]

Well, I hope people are interested enough to enquire of the artist and that you manage to sell a few.

I'm sure your co-mod can cope. We mods are hardy creatures ;)

[spiralicious]

Thank you :)

This is true

[wiseheart]

Congratulations! That's a lot achieved on a single day!

[spiralicious]

Thank you!