Check-In Post January 9th 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]

This morning I sewed up an arm warmer! Only 7 more pairs to go... Hoping to have them finished by the end of the month.


I've also decided what I need to do with my problem sweater is unpick the 4 rows I've done and use stitch markers at the end of each pattern repeat so I don't keep losing track of where I am. I think that's where I've been going wrong. The pattern repeats over 18 stitches and I think I'm just out of practice with a small, but quite complicated, constantly repeating pattern. Most of my recent sweaters have either had several pattern panels, or a much larger repeating pattern which makes it easier to see where I am.

[wiseheart]

Good luck! *fingers crossed*
Also: neat progress with the arm warmers.

[badly_knitted]

Thank you. Will still be a while before I tackle the sweater, but at least now I have a plan of action.

[peaceful_sands]

Well done with your progress and hopefully your problem solving idea will resolve the difficulty with the pattern.

[badly_knitted]

Thank you! Something has to, I'd already undone row 5 three times before I abandoned the whole thing.

[spiralicious]

Congrats on sewing up the arm warmer!

Good luck with your sweater solution.

[badly_knitted]

Thanks! Not sure when I'll start sorting the sweater out, but I refuse to give up! I will wrestle it into submission!

Now, this was unexpected

[wiseheart]

Today's progress, I mean. Not only have I managed to do all six "wheat sheaves", but I've also stitched on the cart, inclusive the buttons that serve as its wheels, and I've even cut out the seal of the windmill. Two of the four panels are sewn together, and I decided to make it mobile, so I added a push button to the design, instead of fixing the seal to the background as it was in the original. Now I only have to make the flea and a few flowers and the windmill page will be finished.

I'm thinking of adding some rubber band to the flea, so that it would be able to actually *jump*, as the song states. No clear idea how to do that, though. Some YouTube research is definitely required.

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[badly_knitted]

Excellent progress, and I like the idea that the windmill's sail will be able to turn. Also like the idea of bouncing fleas if you can figure out a way to do it *grins*

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[wiseheart]

Well, you've managed it with your spiders, so perhaps I'll find a way, too.

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[badly_knitted]

The spiders were easy, they just bounce on their webs.

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[peaceful_sands]

Sounds like you are doing well.

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[spiralicious]

Excellent progress! You're really going to town on that book :)

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[wiseheart]

TBH, I just want it out of my hair ASAP. Making exactly the same thing twice isn't something I enjoy, but sometimes people beg so prettily that I can't resist. *g*

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[spiralicious]

Ah, that makes sense. I'm not a big fan of making the exact same thing more than once either.

[peaceful_sands]

Not a great day today so nothing done but in keeping with trying to stay in touch and keep myself in the 'I can craft even if it's only sometimes' I figured I would check in. Weather has gone much colder and so that hasn't helped today's progress as I was struggling to get warm when I got home from work, hopefully I will have adjusted by tomorrow when I'm working from home anyway and I'll cope better.

[badly_knitted]

Cold weather saps the will to craft, when all you want is to huddle somewhere warm. I hope tomorrow will be better for you. Not having to go outside should help.

[spiralicious]

Hope tomorrow will be better for you.

[wiseheart]

Working in your own environment is always better.

[spiralicious]

Another day, another tracker decorated. Funnily enough, it was the one where I track whether or not I checked in here. Unfortunately, it um, didn't turn out so well. I decided that my decorations had been predominately using purple and green so, I'd use orange. And since it's a one page layout, I'd go ahead and use the orange in the midlinder set, forgetting it's this weird, hideous shade of orange. By the time I regretted my choices, I was committed so, it's orange and grey diagonal stripes, with washi tape covering the pre-printed date banners. I also got the washi tape slightly crooked and it covers part of the tracker a tiny bit, but it is what it is.

Also, more knitting on the hat.

[badly_knitted]

How annoying that it didn't turn out the way you'd hoped.

Great work on the hat though!

[spiralicious]

Thanks!

[wiseheart]

Tapes are evil. They *never* stick where you want them to be!

[spiralicious]

YES! Very evil.