Check-In Post December 22nd 2023

[falkner]

Hello, lovely crafters! Welcome to our daily check-in post, where you can tell everybody all about your most recent progress (or lack thereof). Feel free to also chat with other members and generally enjoy yourself!

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Today's optional question:

Is there any craft you tried out thinking you'd enjoy it, only to find out you don't? Or the other way around, is there a craft you tried for some reason, thinking it'd be a one-time thing, but that turned out to be something enjoyable?

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[wiseheart]

Household chores clashed with my morning crafting hour, so I couldn't finish the new front page of the Christmas-themed quiet book, after all. It is *almost* done, though: only one tiny stock to finish and the eyes of the rocking horse to stick tomorrow, and that will be it. Hopefully.

At least I did get Santa down the chimney, even if I had to slightly disfigure the fireplace to do so. Everything has its price, apparently.

[annofowlshire]

Question: Sewing. I thought I'd enjoy sewing, but I really, really don't. Neither by hand nor with a machine.

Emergency Baby Blanket is on the last couple of stripes! Then to weave in a bajillions ends, and wash and block it.

Turns out I bought waaaaaay more yarn than needed, but I have other uses for it.

[badly_knitted]

I delivered the two pairs of arm warmers to my neighbour, who was delighted, and I'm 20 rows into a pair for her adult daughter now that I've checked the size. Hoping to do a few more rows in a bit.

I can't think of any craft I've tried that I haven't enjoyed. Sewing doesn't count because I was made to do that at school a very long time ago and I hated it then, so never did it willingly. My problem is more that there are many crafts I enjoy but I don't have time to do them all.

[badly_knitted]

That's fast work with the baby blanket! Leftover yarn never goes to waste.

I agree with you on sewing *shudders*

[badly_knitted]

Chores exist just to frustrate us.

Well done with maki g progress, even if the page isn't quite finished.

[althea_valara]

I collapse now (I wish! I have to clean my room for our holiday party tomorrow.) I am mostly pleased with this. It was my first time making a realistic flower or plant, and I definitely learned a lot (like, floral tape isn't sticky unless you stretch it. who knew?). I wish the petals and leaves didn't want to curl. They do have wire in them to help combat that, but the wire is a very fine gauge.

re: crafts tried - I thought I would like weaving more than I do. I don't MIND pin loom weaving, and it's fun to have woven fabric at the end, but it can be tough for me to work on it in long stretches. Even a small coaster takes me a week because I keep putting it down. I think I'd enjoy tablet weaving more, but I tried that backstrap-style and it didn't work for me. Need a loom!

[wiseheart]

My problem is more that there are many crafts I enjoy but I don't have time to do them all.

Somehow that sounds very familiar. *g*
I'm glad your neighbour appreciated the arm warmers. It's always a delight to make things for people who can value them.

[wiseheart]

I think the flower is very pretty.

[badly_knitted]

She's very appreciative =)

I'm making her a single arm warmer now because she lost half of her original pair when out walking the dogs a few months ago and I have enough of the yarn left to make a replacement.

[badly_knitted]

How pretty it is! Well done.

Interesting fact about floral tape, I'll have to remember that.