Check-In Post January 20th 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: Looking back at last year, which of your completed projects (or WiPs) were you most pleased with?


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]

No knitting yet, but I plan to do some in a bit and hopefully do better than yesterday's 10 rows.

[malurette]

Arrrrgh my second try at a slightly-tilted heart jacquard is ever wonkier than the first one--I fixed my first mistake but did something else wrong. I'll have to try yet again.

[badly_knitted]

How frustrating for you! I -hope third time will be the charm.

[yarnofariadne]

Here's the finished dice tray:



I ordered the yarn for the baby blanket today as well, though I didn't have time to do another row on the beach cover-up today.

[monksandbones]

I am, annoyingly, slightly sick, but not too sick to plant myself on my couch to knit on my scarf while I watch the curling!

The scarf is coming along nicely now that I've worked out my colorway issue. Of course, I won't be able to go and get more of the original colorway while I'm sick, but if I run out of yarn to work on this project, there are many other projects...

[yarnofariadne]

Good luck!

[yarnofariadne]

Fingers crossed for you!

[yarnofariadne]

I'm glad the scarf is coming along!

[badly_knitted]

That is so cool!

Shame you didn't have time to work on the cover-up though.

[badly_knitted]

Hope you feel better soon, enjoy the knitting and the curling!

You are so right, there are always plenty of projects!

[badly_knitted]

Thank you!

[badly_knitted]

I successfully completed another 30 rows! I think another 28 should get me to the shoulder shaping, because the pattern says to end on an 18th row for the size I'm knitting. Then there's two rows of shoulder shaping, which isn't shaping at all, just a straight cast off at the beginning of the next two rows, which couldn't be simpler. It's drop shouldered too, so no armhole shaping. It's my preferred style of sweater these days.

[wiseheart]

... is the other baby book I'm currently working on. The boy version of it - obviously, as everyone's favourite consulting detective would say. In any case, I've finished the front cover today. It's quite different from the girl version, but I like it a lot. Take a look:



I apologize for the quality of the photo. The iPad mini has its issues with the colour blue. Or rather, it turns everything white into blue and pale blue into a much darker blue. I used the corresponding sheet as in the girl version, and in reality, it's the same light, decent hue. I've edited the photo within an inch of its life, until the pattern became almost invisible, but it's still several magnitudes too dark. Grrrr!

And speaking of Grrr!, is there anyone else who didn't get notifications in the last 24 hours? I didn't get either emails, or notifications to my Inbox for the last day.

[wiseheart]

Everything that makes your work easier is a plus.
Another 30 rows, wow! That's great.

[wiseheart]

Looks great!

[badly_knitted]

Thanks! Much better than yesterday, which was nothing but problems.

[badly_knitted]

With my camera, it's red that's the problem, although I think it makes blue lighter. Cameras are weird. That still looks very pretty though, even if the colour isn't accurate.

I'm getting some notifications, but not all. Several comments here yesterday never came through to my email or inbox. I need to check this post and make sure I haven't missed replying to anyone.

[wiseheart]

Yeah, same here. It's especially annoying, as I can no longer access DW via the iPad mini. Browser is too old or whatnot.

[darkcedars]

Ugh, very irritating. Better luck!

[darkcedars]

Looks great!

[darkcedars]

TV and a scarf project are pretty good when you're sick.

[darkcedars]

Wow, and here you weren't sure you'd get anywhere.

[badly_knitted]

Everything keeps getting updated and they expect people to buy new tech every time. I hate a lot of the changes because they make things that were simple so much more complicated than they were before.

[darkcedars]

I had some notifications and now wonder how many I missed.

[darkcedars]

Tested the duster I made yesterday. It works okay. Going to try a slightly different version next.