Check-In Post November 13th 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]

No crafting again today, but I forgot to mention on Sunday my neighbour and her older daughter came around to claim spiders and meeces. I told the younger daughter at Halloween, when she was dog-sitting while they were away on holiday and stopped by while walking the dog, to tell her mum and sister to come for Halloween goodies when they got back. So they went away happy with four spiders and four meeces =)

[wiseheart]

And the spiders and meeces are happy to have a new home, too, right? :)

[badly_knitted]

Very happy. Every spider and meece likes to be chosen.

[sister_raphael]

The spiders and meeces are very, very cute! I bet she loved them!

[badly_knitted]

They both did. Daughter is late 20s, but like me, resistant to moving out. I've known both kids since they were about 7 and 9. The younger one complained to me once about her bigger sister picking on her. I said something about one day she might be bigger than her sister. Younger sis is now a 6ft amazon! Older sis is now the smaller one.

[wiseheart]

No crafting done today. Too many chores. I'm well and truly done in.

[badly_knitted]

Chores can do that. I hope you have a relaxing evening.

[sister_raphael]

Time off to recharge is always good. Take care.

[thegreatratsby]

i have enough yarn for my vertical stripes to be thick enough!! i finished my first skein and eyeballed the thickness and had a big sigh of relief because one all five stripes are done it will definitely be a thick enough scarf, now i don't have to risk different dye lots! huzzah. now just to keep knitting 300+ stitch rows LOL

[badly_knitted]

Yay! And congratulations for finishing the first skein! That's an awful lot of stitches per row.

[sister_raphael]

oooo stripes are wonderful!

[sister_raphael]

Once again, so far behind, but with a new laptop I can take to work, I can hopefully do a bit of a catch up with everyone. I have many, many back posts to add, but it's nice to see everyone again! I've been working on a bunch of things, this week a red silk kirtle, and lots of book promo and getting ready for a rental house inspection which would be easier if I didn't have a teenager in the house! haha. She's been helping out with a heap of medieval projects though. Tomorrow's craft project is to make a circlet that I made a bit smaller, so there will be pics of that!

[badly_knitted]

Luscious colour!

Sounds like you've been massively busy, congrats on the book promo!

[wiseheart]

Welcome back!

[tielan]

Sewing together 5" squares, light and dark. Take two, flip one through 180degrees, sew together to make 2x2 blocks, dovetailing seams. Sew the 2x2s together to make 4x4s and the 4x4s to make 8x8s.

It's gonna be a backing. And the quilter is going to be all "why don't you make another quilt from it"? Because I have TOO MANY QUILTS ALREADY and I don't need more quilts that I have to angst about backings. JUST QUILT IT PLEASE.

[sister_raphael]

I really admire you for this! Totally get the.. Why Don't You Just Do Another One thing. People don't always understand.

[tielan]

Oh do they ever NOT UNDERSTAND!

Someday, I shall ask "is this the face of a woman with Not Enough Quilts? Is it? Because I assure you in the event that you are mistakenly nodding your head, IT IS NOT."

*facepalm*

[badly_knitted]

I shouldn't laugh, it sounds stressful, but I think that will be a beautiful backing. Two sided quilts, there's an idea! As pretty on the back as they are on the front. Why not? People can choose which side to have uppermost.

[readera]

I called out of work today cuz I wasnt feeling well. I ended up working on my cowl while watching TV. I ripped out the seed stitch pattern I was working on as it was too small and not really working with the yarn. Now I'm making the cowl a bit bigger and with a different pattern. Ribbed on the bottom & with a rick rib lace pattern for the body. I've finally gotten past the first few rows of the lace and gotten the feel of it. I quite like how it looks so far.

[sister_raphael]

Sound really nice and yay for getting past the lace!

[tielan]

It's a nice feeling to pull something apart and put it back together only better, isn't it!

Hurray for getting past the lace!

[badly_knitted]

That sounds a better and more enjoyable pattern to knit.

Feel better soon, and enjoy your knitting.

[ebrillblaiddes]

Hi, new to the site, please let me know if I'm doing it wrong.

Just a few rows on a swatch/sampler today in between this and that (giving a presentation tomorrow and trying not to freak out). The November Knitting Urge sniped me a few days ago so I've got some fingering weight wool from the stash on size 2 needles to get the gauge details for socks.

[tielan]

There is no doing it wrong.

A few rows is progress! HUZZAH!

Good luck with the presentation.

Thank you! n/m

[ebrillblaiddes]

:)

[badly_knitted]

Welcome! It's impossible to do anything wrong posting here, so don't worry about it.

Ah, another sock knitter! I'm amazed by how many people knit socks, I've never tried it myself. Hope yours turn out cosy to keep your feet warm.

Good luck with your presentation, I hope it goes well!

[ebrillblaiddes]

Thanks! The presentation went alright -- my brain only went blank a little here and there.

I actually haven't knitted socks before, hoping it turns out that the parts that are basically just going straight up a tube are really conducive to zoning out.

[badly_knitted]

Glad to hear it, even if there were a few small blank spots.

Well, good luck with your first socks, I hope they go well. What sorts of things do you usually knit?

[ebrillblaiddes]

I'm one of those multi-crafters -- since turning up with carpal tunnel I mostly crochet, bc ergonomic knitting needles don't seem to be invented yet, though I learned knitting first. Also spin a bit. I knitted a scarf a few years back when a previous November Knitting Urge hit, and I feel like I'm forgetting something in between.

[badly_knitted]

Ugh, painful! I have arthritic thumbs, but I'm refusing to give up my knitting. I crochet a bit, but not all that well. And spinning! Wow! A couple of other people who drop in from time to time do spinning as well.

You'll find all kinds of crafters here, celebrating successes and bemoaning things that didn't go right, and we don't just talk craft, so feel free to join in any conversations and get to know everyone. We're a friendly bunch, and very laid back.