Check-In Post January 7th 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

[badly_knitted]

Still no crafting, not feeling great today, but I've picked out some light blue yarn to make a sweater with. Just got to pick a pattern.

[wiseheart]

Get better, soon! And take care with those sweaters, they multiply faster than the meeces!

[badly_knitted]

Thank you!

I already have more than I really need, but I enjoy making them.

[wiseheart]

Well, they come in handy when the weather is chilly, right?

[badly_knitted]

Very much so.

[yarnofariadne]

Hope you feel better soon ♥

[badly_knitted]

Thank you.

[celli]

I hope you feel better very soon!

[badly_knitted]

Thank you.

[spiralicious]

Feel better!

[badly_knitted]

Thanks!

[wiseheart]

No crafting today over here, either. But I did put away some supplies I no longer need, so there's that. I'm not in a very crafty mood right now, although I do have a line of projects in front of me.

[yarnofariadne]

I'm glad you got some things put away!

[wiseheart]

So am I! I'm still drowning in random craft stuff, but at least the first step has been made.

[badly_knitted]

Your crafty mood will return at some point. So will mine. At least you did some tidying away. I just got more yarn out.

[wiseheart]

Errr... I got more felt out, too. And more lining stuff...

[badly_knitted]

I imagine you're going to need those at some point with the things you're making. Got to get them out before they're needed.

[spiralicious]

Tidying is important too.

[wiseheart]

In theory, yes. In practice, I'll still be putting away this year's scraps while working on next year's projects, I'm afraid.

[spiralicious]

XD

[yarnofariadne]

I ended up doing the first coat of paint on the dice tray last night, and it was still wet last I checked it today, so no more progress there. However, I did get one more row done on the beach cover-up!

[wiseheart]

You see? You are making progress, too!

[badly_knitted]

Paint can take an annoyingly long time to dry.

Well done for cover-up progress! The rows must be quite long now.

[spiralicious]

Well done!

[althea_valara]

Did my planned 30 minutes on the stockings commissions (and yes, I will post pictures once I have one done!).

I NEED ADVICE. It was the hoodie's turn to be worked on today. I finished the ribbing of the sleeve I'm making first (too lazy to do a proper gauge swatch, so I'll use my sleeve as a swatch). Then I settled down to work row 1 of the sleeve body... only to discover I had cast on too few stitches. I'm four short!

I... don't know what to do. My Ravelry project page is here, where you can see a picture of the sleeve in progress:

https://ravel.me/xnera/1cph

From that picture, you can see I'm doing intarsia in the cabled section of the sleeve. The stitches are supposed to be divided 22-18-22. I have 18-18-22, so the first gray section is off by 4 stitches. I am wondering if I can just increase four stitches in that section on the first row? Thoughts?

If I wasn't doing intarsia, I'd be more willing to rip and redo, but the intarsia really slows things up, so I'm loathe to have to frog and start over.

[spiralicious]

I hope some one can help. That is quite a pickle.

[badly_knitted]

Well done on stocking progress.

That's what I'd do, just increase 4 stitches evenly across that section, then maybe do the other sleeve the same, but reverse the mistake. That way at least they'd match.

[celli]

I posted the completed BTS project on twitter - it still needs to be washed, ironed, etc., but the recipient likes it!

Then I got started on guinea pig 3 of 3. Here we go again...

[spiralicious]

Excellent!

[badly_knitted]

Awesome! Glad the recipient is pleased.

Yay for guinea pigs!

[wiseheart]

It looks fantastic!
And yes, yay for guinea pigs!

[spiralicious]

Another layout is decorated! The "monthly challenges" layout is double sided, so I pulled out the micron pens. They bleed through the pages the least in this journal. This layout had space to use the washi tape to cover the date space on these pages. I drew orange and green spirals to fill in the empty spaces.

I had hoped to get a couple other things done today, but my anxiety grabbed me early and now I really need to be working towards bed.

[badly_knitted]

I hate the way anxiety gets in the way of doing things *sympathises*

Well done on the journal progress, it sounds very pretty!

[spiralicious]

Thanks x2

I'm trying to learn from last year's mistakes - super simplified versions of all the layouts done ahead of time, so it's functional before the year starts, then gradually decorating one layout at a time. That way hopefully things stay caught up and I don't end the year out with weird half-finished pages like last year.

[badly_knitted]

*fingers crossed*

[wiseheart]

That bleeding through is so annoying, isn't it! Once I had to redo an entire booklet because of it.

I hope you're feeling better by now. *hugs*

[spiralicious]

Sometimes I swear it's the bane of my entire existence! I even carefully swatched all of my pens I could possibly use on this journal when I started setting it up for last year and there was barely any bleed through, but during actually usage last year, everything bled through. I am learning from last year's mistakes on this year's pages though. Hopefully.

Thanks. I am a little. It's one of those things that's going to be creeping around in the back of my brain for awhile, but I'm working through it. *hugs*

[shaddyr]

I have the back panel of the sweater done! I made a mistake and had to frog 12 rows, but that's really not such a big deal.

Originally, I was going to make the entire thing from Cascade Eco+ in Aporto, but of course, I didn't have enough, so I decided to do blocks of colour. I got this harvest gold and brick red that I thought went together nicely. Then, as I'm working on it last night, my eldest pointed out it was almost Captain Marvel colours, which was unintentional but kinda cool.

So, this is what I got so far. The blue came out very royal blue, it's really more dark teal. But yeah, progress!

[badly_knitted]

Well done! It's looking great =)