Check-In Post January 6th 2024

[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.


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

[spiralicious]

Today, I decorated another bullet journal layout. It was my "year in pixels/anxiety tracker." This year, I actually have washi tape to cover the date rows at the top of each page, but on this layout, I forgot to leave myself enough room to use it. Anyway, I drew little black cat heads over all the words on the date bit, like a whole bunch of shitty cover-up tattoos. The rest of the black space not used by the tracker, I covered in paw prints. The text of the tracker I covered with a green or purple midlinder to help them stand out.

I also knitted on the hat a bit. I need to remember to measure it and look up how long it's supposed to be before I start the next row.

[badly_knitted]

Sounds like the journal is coming along well.

This is a friendly reminder to measure your hat! (If you haven't already done so).

[spiralicious]

Thanks. So far, so good.

Yes! Must measure the hat! (I need to get that tattooed on my hand or something.)

[badly_knitted]

LOL!

[wiseheart]

That journal sure sounds like a complicated project, but you are creative. It will turn out gorgeous.

[spiralicious]

Thanks! I've done the hard bits already - actually setting up the trackers for the year. Now, it's just making things more aesthetically pleasing, which I am trying to keep relatively simple, because I have to hand draw everything. Also, at the rate things are going, it will probably last me through the end of 2025, if not 2026.