Check-In Post January 27th 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]

20 rows knitted last night!


Not much done in the way of knitting today yet though. I've cast on for a sleeve and done the first two rows so I can pick that up tomorrow night while Dancing on Ice is on and carry on with it if I can't manage the front. After I post this, I'll go grab some food and then do some knitting while watching a DVD.

[wiseheart]

Progress is progress! I wish I could craft while watching a DVD but
a) I don't have a TV in the study/workroom, and
b) I need to see the (English) subtitles to actually understand spoken English.

[badly_knitted]

I can imagine how difficult it would be to have to rely on subtitles.

[wiseheart]

My English basically exists in written form as I only have the chance to *speak* it once in a decade... if I am lucky.

[badly_knitted]

That's sad. I imagine speaking a language would help. I'm crap at languages myself though. I can only speak English because I learned it from birth.

[wiseheart]

I pick up languages fairly easily - or, at least, I used to. Perhaps basically growing up with German as a second language helped with that. German is a fairly... organized language; learning other ones afterwards seemed easier. Especially as my native Hungarian has a completely different grammatical structure than all other European languages, with the possible exception of Finnish.

[badly_knitted]

I find that very impressive!

[wiseheart]

Well, the only other language I learned semi-properly was English. My Russian is history, despite having it for 10 years at school, and I never got too far with French, which is a shame. I find French beautiful. We get one single French channel from Vodafone and sometimes I switch it on, just to hear the language. Too bad the programmes are crap.

[badly_knitted]

I took French in school for 5 years and I was dreadful at it, barely scraped though my exams. My Latin was even worse, but thankfully I only had to take that for a year or two.

[peaceful_sands]

Forward planning for crafting during DoI - I approve. Hope you got something good to eat and found a good DVD to watch.

[badly_knitted]

I'm rewatching Season one of Stargate SG-1, so yep, very good. Shouldn't have watched 3 episodes in a row, but I did, and got 30 rows knitted.

I like to make sure I have something I can do during DoI. Keeps me from getting twitchy.

Food was good, mostly just nibbles.