Check-In Post December 31st 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]

Last night I managed 38 rows bringing the final arm warmer (for now) up to 40 rows. That means I have 50 rows still to knit, so we'll see how far I get tonight.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

well done!

[badly_knitted]

Thank you!

[yarnofariadne]

Great progress!

[badly_knitted]

Thanks! I completed it!

[darkcedars]

Haha *final.*

[badly_knitted]

For this year. I want to start my sweater next, now that the things on TV that I need to watch rather than listen to are over.

[wiseheart]

You'll knit yourself over into the new year? *g*

[badly_knitted]

Nope, I've knitted my last for the year. Finished the arm warmer. Tomorrow I hope to start my sweater!

[spiralicious]

Well done!

[badly_knitted]

Thanks!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

happy New Year!! Much crafting to everyone for 2024!!

My boys made a gingerbread soccer stadium (from a kit) and some coffee shortbread from spiralicious' recipe.

[yarnofariadne]

Super cute!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you!

[darkcedars]

That is so cute!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you!

[badly_knitted]

Woohoo! Both look yummy! Did you eat the stadium?

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thanks! The boys are slowly dismantling the stadium 🤣

[badly_knitted]

Demolition experts ;)

[wiseheart]

Looks great!
Happy crafty New Year!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you. To you!

[spiralicious]

They look great :)

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you!

[yarnofariadne]

At just under 3 inches wide on the infinity scarf, which will be done when it hits 7 inches wide! I might work on it more tonight, or my hands might be full of cheese and prosecco. Only time will tell XD

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

I vote for cheese!🤣

[darkcedars]

I also vote cheese. :)

[wiseheart]

I, too, suggest the cheese and prosecco solution! :)

[badly_knitted]

Excellent progress! Tonight is for celebrating.

[spiralicious]

Enjoy whichever way the night takes you!

[althea_valara]

I posted my December Crafting Update AND 2023 year in review to my journal, here (it's public so if you're not following me you can see it anyway!): https://althea-valara.dreamwidth.org/1169255.html

I *might* work on niece's blanket today, but what I really plan to do is work on a "summary" (hahahaha yeah no, it's very verbose) of Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers. I had intended to finish the summary this year. There's still time! Not much time, but still: time!

[darkcedars]

Still a few hours! Good luck.

[wiseheart]

You can do it!

[badly_knitted]

You've done great, especially for such a difficult year. Crafting ebbs and flows, maybe you'll complete more projects, maybe you won't, but as long as you enjoy what you make, that's what matters.

Good luck with your summary!

[spiralicious]

*\o/*

[darkcedars]

I haven't crafted for a few days. Working on a couple final snowflakes now to return cards that I didn't anticipate in the first round. While deciding what to do next.

Quite cold and dark here. I've been outside a couple (short) sessions for tidying in the yard.

[wiseheart]

Sometimes you just need a break.

[badly_knitted]

Cold and dark doesn't really inspire doing much of anything. Well done on the extra snowflakes.

Doing anything in the garden here is out of the question. The lawn is flooded and the rest is waterlogged. The soil has a lot of clay in it, so it could take months before it dries enough to be diggable, and that's if it ever stops raining. =/

[darkcedars]

The sun is at least out now. I think leaves are dry enough to mess with even if everything else is frozen mud.

[badly_knitted]

Yay, that should make things at least possible. Here, everything is very wet mud and water.

[spiralicious]

Well done on the extra snowflakes and for getting in some work on the yard!

[wiseheart]

No crafting today, unless the snacks I baked for midnight count. *g*
I did a good batch of writing in the morning, though; had a serious amount of infodump to, well, to dump, you know, and I finally got it out of my hair. So, all together a good day.

[badly_knitted]

Baking always counts, and well done with the writing! Glad it was a good day.

[spiralicious]

Baking is just edible crafting... well technically, it's tasty chemistry, so more of a STEAM project. Still counts.

Congrats on the writing :)

[spiralicious]

Happy New Year Everyone!

[badly_knitted]

Happy New Year!