Check-In Post February 19th 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: Which craft that you don't already do would you most like to try?


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[badly_knitted]

No crafting for me today.


I'd love to be able to make amigurumi (because I want to crochet a prawn, maybe even a whole fleet of them — I have a book of designs), but I can't get my head around crochet charts, they're just a bunch of lines and squiggles.

[wiseheart]

Big cleaning day + cooking + Mom duty = no crafting today (either).

Forgot to add: I'd love to learn proper crocheting; and to relearn knitting. Small chance either of them ever happening, though.

[tellshannon815]

Crochet. I keep getting crochet kit presents, but have never actually started.

[sister_raphael]

I did some potting of plants this morning before work and made the ad for my presentation in April, so feeling successful about that!

The craft/s I'm keen to learn are nahlbinding which is a historic form of knitting with one needle different to crochet. I'd like to learn decorative leatherwork too and already have projects in mind for that.

[spiralicious]

Today was mildly unsettling, though I'm not entirely sure why, as it went about as expected. For the first time in several months, I'm back to doing Monday crafting with Lynne. It is very different now. Her dementia has progressed to the point where it is more like babysitting than visiting an old friend, but I knew that. I'd thought I had picked something low pressure enough, but I guess I hadn't. Making cards without a kit and preset instructions was going to be impossible (though it is her default craft she wants to do). Instead, I thought I would cut out big paper eggs out of scrapbooking paper and we would decorate them with her vast collection of markers, pens, stickers, and stamps. Overall, I think it went well enough, but it was too unstructured for her. She also forgot how stickers worked, which created some tense moments.

This was made a little worse because the housekeeper was there and Lynne was trying to craft with me and micromanage the housekeeper at the same time. And Lynne's moods regarding her son, who is her 24 hour caregiver, swing wildly between he is a saint whom she couldn't live without to he is worthless and lazy and doing nothing to earn his keep. The mood was not positive today. Every time he checked on us to see how things were going, it got her all riled up.

They expect me to come back every Monday. I honestly don't know what I'm going to do.

I also exchanged phone numbers with her son so I could better coordinate visits and when I will be caring for the animals, but I'm not sure what good it's going to do as he told me afterwards his phone's been shut off.

I also took the time to read through posts here to see what all you've been up to in the days I've missed.