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?


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

[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/*