Check-In Post January 1st 2024

[badly_knitted]

Happy New Year!

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.


This Week's Question: Do you have any crafting resolutions for 2024?


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[celli]

I have a resolution to check in here again in 2024! :)

[badly_knitted]

Woohoo! Excellent resolution, good luck!

[spiralicious]

*\o/*

[badly_knitted]

Last night I finished knitting the year's final arm warmer. Still got several pairs to sew up, which I hope to get done over the coming weeks, but I'm starting my sweater now. So far I've cast on the back and ribbed 2 rows.


My crafting goals this year:
Knit at least one sweater.
Finish the arm warmers that have been knitted.
Sew up the last sweater I made because it's been lurking unfinished since early last year, or possibly late the year before that o_O
Make some small felt toys for Halloween.
Maybe make some simple Christmas cards.
Do at least one cross stitch project. I have one picked out that I want to stitch for a friend.

[yarnofariadne]

Hooray, well done on the arm warmers!

[badly_knitted]

Thank you!

[spiralicious]

Well done!

Those are wonderful goals.

[badly_knitted]

Thank you! Now let's see if I can stick to them...

[althea_valara]

I have worked on my niece's blanket for about 35 minutes today. Then I got bored. Taking a break now to check websites. I'll try to do more crafting later, as there's still plenty of day left.

I don't have any crafting *resolutions* this year, but I do have goals:

* Finish Rebel Ripple for niece by May 15th
* Finish Nordic Stripes for nephew by May 15th
* Do poinsettias for mom and younger sister, hopefully sooner rather than later
* Hopefully finish Central Park Hoodie for ME by spring
* Hopefully finish the knit t-shirt for ME by summer
* Finish my commissions in a timely manner

That's a LOT. And yes, I am taking some commissions this year. Not too enthused about it NOW, but I agreed to it back in November. Luckily, they are Christmas stockings so aren't in a hurry, but still: it's going to be a slog.

I plan to combat the slog by rotating projects. I won't have the yarn for starting the commissions until Thursday at the earliest, so until then I'll work on other projects.

Big goal this year: acquire a crafting icon, for use here and in my journal. This current icon isn't too bad, but I would like to transition away from it for Crafting, and use it just for Working posts. I'm not too great at making icons though... but perhaps I will try to make one anyway.

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[badly_knitted]

That's a good list of projects for you to work on, and plenty of variety, which should help.

Well done for progress on the blanket, hope you manage to get lots more crafting done today.

Good luck with the icon! I'm not good at making them either. I can crop a picture, but anything more complicated than that and I'm lost.

[spiralicious]

Good luck *\o/*

[alexcat]

My list pf "I wanna makes' is endless but right now I am crocheting a poncho for me like the one I made my best friend's mom. It's simply granny stitch but it came out nice. I have some fancy little wools that have been gifted to me and I need to find some nice small scarves to make with them got mohair and cashmere!
I also have a bracelet pattern with crocheting thread and crafting beads I want to try.

[badly_knitted]

We crafters are an ambitious lot, usually with a mile-long list of things we want to try, or make.

Have fun with the poncho. Hope you find suitable patterns for your fancy wool.

The bracelet sounds fun.

[althea_valara]

Oooh, mohair and cashmere! Nice! Do you just do crochet or do you knit as well? If you knit, keyhole scarfs are nice to make with a small amount of yarn. I've made two:

* Bow Tie Keyhole Scarf
* Anthro Inspired Scarflet

Both are free patterns!

If you only crochet: there are crochet patterns for keyhole scarfs as well! Here's a Ravelry search for patterns (need to be signed in to Ravelry to see the results

[alexcat]

I crochet and am learning to knit - not good enough yet for the fancy yarns. Thank you so much for the link and keyhole scarf idea! I think I will try that --- ooh, I have some alpaca as well. I have a very nice friend!

[spiralicious]

I hear you on the endless "wanna makes." Good luck with poncho, bracelets, and finding scarf patterns for your yarns.

[wiseheart]

No actual resolutions, either, but a great many goals:

- to finish the two quiet books in progress;
- to make two (paper) baby books for colleagues who are expecting a little son and a little granddaughter, respectively;
- picking up paper embroidery early on, so that I wouldn't be so overworked when the next Christmas time comes.

That said, I worked a tiny bit on the songbook today; perhaps an hour or so, in several parts.

[yarnofariadne]

Best of luck with your goals!

[wiseheart]

Thanks. Luck will be needed. I'm a bit burned out craft-wise, so I can only make things in very small doses.

[badly_knitted]

Those are good goals. The paper embroidery should be good for resting between the projects that are hard on your hands.

The songbook seems to be coming along nicely.

[wiseheart]

Not as speedily as I'd like it to come along, but currently this is the best I can do. I'm just so exhausted all the time.

[badly_knitted]

I know that feeling. This time of year it can be an effort to get anything at all done.

[spiralicious]

Good luck *\o/*

[wiseheart]

Thank you. :)

[yarnofariadne]

A couple more rows on the infinity scarf - forgot to measure it before I put it away for the day, but progress is being made.

I don't know that I necessarily have resolutions, but I have a queue, which is new for me: this infinity scarf needs finishing first, then a baby blanket, then another scarf, then my beach cover-up (hopefully in time for summer). Excited to see what else gets added to the queue this year!

[badly_knitted]

Always good to have a few projects to work on! *cheers you on*

[spiralicious]

Nice!

Good luck working through your queue!

[readera]

Happy new year all! I am still plugging away at my shawl. I'm up to 8 stripes out of 16.

Craft resolutions for this year include working on projects with yarn/other supplies I already have. I got some embroidery supplies last year & I haven't done any embroidery or sewing. I think I need to find a good resource or project to learn from since this is a new craft for me.
I would also like to repair some handknits so they are wearable again esp my partner's robe.

[spiralicious]

Well done!

Good luck *\o/*

[badly_knitted]

Woohoo! Halfway there in the stripes!

Very sensible plan. I hope you can find what you need to learn.

Good luck with the repairs.

[spiralicious]

All my crafting energy today went towards cleaning, attempting to be a human at dinner, and all the various New Year's check ins - Snowflake Challenge, Wrisolutions at ushobwri, the Friending meme at allbingo. I also did the first of what will hopefully be a series of tea reviews, as it's national tea month and last year someone specifically asked me to post tea reviews and I never got any of them posted.

As for crafting resolutions, basically, I want to do some serious stash busting. I know that generally refers to yarn related crafts, but I am applying it to all my craft supplies here.

[yarnofariadne]

Sounds like a busy day!

Best of luck stash busting!

[spiralicious]

It was!

Thanks!

[badly_knitted]

Sounds like a busy day, so many things to check in with!

Stash busting should apply to all crafts, because they all result in stashes of supplies that can get too big. Good luck!

[spiralicious]

It was! XD

As far as I am concerned, it does, but people have gotten gatekeepy with the term before. Thanks!

[badly_knitted]

Well, you won't get any gatekeepy nonsense here!

[spiralicious]

Why it's one of my favorite places :)

[badly_knitted]

Yay! 😊

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

I definitely need to finish a cross stitch I thought would be a Xmas present but proved too ambitious to finish by Xmas. And I am thinking about trying my hand at treasure books/junk journals--more elaborate versions of the collages I do.

[badly_knitted]

Interesting projects for this year! Hope the cross stitch doesn't take too much longer to finish.