Check-In Post December 25th 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.


Thank you to the lovely falkner  for hosting last week, posing questions and running the check-in!


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]

Merry Christmeece, everyone!





I have almost finished knitting the first pair of arm warmers for my neighbour's daughter, just 4 rows to go. Whooo!

[wiseheart]

Fantastic! And the meeces are so cheerful! :)

[badly_knitted]

I do like a cheery meece or several ;)

[darkcedars]

You'll have that finished shortly.

[badly_knitted]

Yep! Aside from sewing that pair up, I'm done and I'm 40 rows into the first of the second pair!

[spiralicious]

That is so cute! And late Merry Christmeece :)

Way to go!

[badly_knitted]

Thank you! The meeces wanted in on the action so I let them ;)

[spiralicious]

:D Hehe, of course!

[badly_knitted]

Meeces are my overlords, I think...

[spiralicious]

I don't think you're supposed to know that. Don't let the meeces know you are on to them.

[badly_knitted]

I will keep quiet ;)

[spiralicious]

Lol

[wiseheart]

I worked a bit on the snowman's wardrobe in the morning. Now only the mittens and a few sparkly snowballs are missing. I hope to get them done tomorrow.

[badly_knitted]

Excellent progress! I'm sure the snowman appreciates your attention!

[wiseheart]

He seems to be in high spirits indeed. :)

[badly_knitted]

Good to hear!

[wiseheart]

We can't have a grumpy snowman, now can we? *g*

[badly_knitted]

Certainly not!

[darkcedars]

Already the next page nearly done, after the hurdle of Santa.

[wiseheart]

Well, I started them at about the same time, and the snowman page was definitely the easier one. :)

[spiralicious]

Well done!

[althea_valara]

Merry Christmas everyone! Wishing you happiness, good health, laughter--and much crafting!

I am aiming to get my QR code done today. Plus one petal of mom's poinsettia (mom expressed doubt yesterday that she'd ever get it, sigh. Have some confidence in me, mom!)

I got something crafty for Christmas: Knitting With Disney by Tanis Gray. I wanted it because one of my favorite designers, Sara Elizabeth Kellner, has a pattern in it for Pascal, the chameleon from Tangled. There's some other lovely patterns in there, too, some that scream DISNEY! but many which don't.

Also, I spent the past hour and a half copying my works from Ao3 to SquidgeWorld, because why not? You can now find them here as well: https://squidgeworld.org/users/AltheaValara/works

[badly_knitted]

Than you, and the same to you, hope you're having a great Christmas! Good luck with finishing the QR code and the petal. Mums can be annoying with their lack of faith.

The knitting book sounds great. I love chameleons, so that sounds cute.

It would take me forever to copy all my fics to squidgeworld. I'm half tempted to set up an account, but I have way too many fics.

[althea_valara]

I only had 11 works at Ao3. I opted not to copy one over (so 10 copied) and I added 2 only on SqW because they have their own image hosting (the two were some fan art dolls I knitted). There IS an importer on SquidgeWorld but I manually copied mine because I have so little. I can totally understand not wanting to transfer them over if you have that many! I plan to post in both archives going forward.

[badly_knitted]

Well done for getting yours done!

Yeah, 2927 works would take a loooong time, lol. Plus I already post here, LJ, AO3, ff.net, and with some of them, Teaspoon, the Doctor Who archive. I think adding another place to post to might be a step too far 🙃

[darkcedars]

Book sounds really neat. And you got some crafting done too today is a win.

[spiralicious]

Merry Christmas!

Hope you got your QR code done.

Moms can be like that.

That book sounds awesome.

Very nicely done :D

[darkcedars]

I've gotten no crafting done, as we've had company.

Mom likes the placemats, the yarn color was not as expected so that's good. Dad wore his hat most of the day (it's cold again).

[badly_knitted]

Glad to hear the hat and placemats were appreciated!

Hard to find crafting time when you have company. Hope you had a good day!

[spiralicious]

Wonderful to hear the gifts were appreciated :D

[readera]

Merry Christmas!
I knit a row on my shawl while chatting after Christmas lunch.

I am quite excited about some of my gifts. My partner's brother got me a Dutch oven and I got myself a fancy apron. I like to bake & cook so I'm excited to bake crusty bread & other new recipes.

[badly_knitted]

Merry Christmas to you too, and well done for getting a row of knitting done.

Oooh, that sounds great! Good luck with your crusty bread, so delicious!

[spiralicious]

Merry Christmas!

Very nice!

Those sound like wonderful gifts :D