Check-In Post February 10th 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: Who do you most enjoy making things for: family, friends, yourself, a special someone?


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]

I got 10 rows done on a sleeve last night and I'm hoping to do the same tonight if I can. I'm two pattern repeats in, so a long way to go still.

[wiseheart]

Sounds complicated, but I have faith in you.

[badly_knitted]

Thanks! I got the next 10 rows done. The rows are getting steadily longer because of the increases, but the sleeve looks good so far.

[wiseheart]

And that is what counts, right?

[badly_knitted]

It is.

[wiseheart]

I've finished edging the last page of the Christmas quiet book. Now I won't be able to put off the binding of the two books... unless I finally turn my attention to the baby books with the close(r) deadline.

[badly_knitted]

Well done! Maybe alternate binding with work on the baby books, so your fingers don't get so sore.

[wiseheart]

Perhaps. Although the baby books should have priority now; I've neglected them far too long.

[badly_knitted]

I'm sure the recipients will understand, especially now.

[althea_valara]

I worked for an hour and fifteen minutes on the stocking commission today!

This Week's Question: Who do you most enjoy making things for: family, friends, yourself, a special someone?

Hmm. What I enjoy is the challenge of making something, and often make things just because they look cool! So I guess "for myself"? Though many things I've made are just gathering dust now...

[badly_knitted]

Well done!

That's the problem, isn't it? Something looks really fun to make so you make it, then think... Now what do I do with it?

[wiseheart]

That's why I'm eternally grateful for the annual charity fair at my school... well, former school now. I might be retired but I still claim partial ownership. *g*

[badly_knitted]

Yes, what you make is always appreciated.

[shaddyr]

I am working on a C2C blanket made from a bunch of acrylic scrap yarn my friend gave me. I estimate I'm not quite a quarter done.

[badly_knitted]

That should be fun and colourful!

[jupiter2932]

I'm hoping to get some more work done on a scarf for a friend's mother this evening while I watch soccer. It was supposed to be an Xmas present, but I got a dog bite on my hand and had to set it aside for a while.

[badly_knitted]

Welcome to the community!

Good luck with getting the scarf finished. Hope the bite has healed well, what rotten luck getting bitten! Not your own dog, I hope.

[jupiter2932]

Thank you! I'm all healed up now, I've just procrastinated picking up my projects back up.

It was a dog I was in the process of adopting. He'd been isolated from other animals/most humans before we got him, and my roommate has two dogs (plus my cat, who lives in a separate part of the house from the dogs but is still present), so after the bite it just wasn't going to work out. Fortunately, we found him a good home with a couple who doesn't have other animals or kids, and he's doing fine now :)

[badly_knitted]

Oh, that's good to know! Poor dog, sounds like he's in a more suitable home now.

Procrastination is a bad habit that many of us suffer from.