Check-In Post March 2nd 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?


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 crafting yet for me today, I had a massive online survey to fill in, but I'm hoping to do some knitting soon. I ned 20 more rows on my sleeve...

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Hope you get it in.

[peaceful_sands]

Hope you've finished the survey and are onto the knitting - it sounds more relaxing!

[darkcedars]

Hopefully at the knitting part of your day.

[wiseheart]

Surveys are a PITA. I hope you get to your knitting yet.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

My cross-stitch gift has finally arrived at its destination. I began it before Xmas but quickly realized I wouldn't finish it to post as an Xmas gift so I finished it in January. FYI this pattern is from Cross-Stitch to Calm by Leah Lintz. I am planning to do 2 more patterns from this book (which I checked out at the library).

[peaceful_sands]

It looks lovely.

[darkcedars]

Nice! Have you decided or still looking?

[wiseheart]

This is beautiful - although I seriously doubt cross-stitching would calm me down... on the contrary. Fortunately, we are not all the same. :)

[badly_knitted]

That's great! I hope the recipient was pleased!

[m_findlow]

Nice! Better a month late than rushed. I'm sure it was very much appreciated.

[meridian_rose]

That is beautiful :D

[malurette]

I've just finished my jumper's body, yay!!! and I'll go tackle the sleeves tomorrow. Hopefully. I don't have the right size & length circular needle (oops failed at gathering the right supplies before starting oops) so I'll have to make do with double-pointed needles and hope for the best but that's a lot of stitches to juggle so... well. We'll see.

[peaceful_sands]

Well done on getting so far and good luck with the next stage.

[darkcedars]

That's great on finishing the body!

[badly_knitted]

Yay for finishing the body!

Good luck with the sleeves, double pointed needles can get a bit tricky so watch out that stitches don't fall off the ends.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Good luck!

[m_findlow]

Fingers crossed for you. Sounds daunting but then again I'm not much of a knitter.

[peaceful_sands]

I'm working on my tapestry this evening which is good. I've fallen asleep every night this week without getting any done so I just made a few minutes progress during a lunch break on my work from home day.

[darkcedars]

You must have really needed sleep! But it gets to me too when I haven't had project time.

[badly_knitted]

So sorry you haven't ben getting time to craft, but some days sleep is more important.

Yay for lunchtime progress!

[darkcedars]

Had hoped to be completely over being sick, but no such luck. Started another dishcloth because still not up to finer work.

[badly_knitted]

*hugs* Hope the dishcloth making will prove relaxing.

[wiseheart]

Again, no crafting today. (I didn't check in yesterday... it was a horrible day and I just collapsed in the evening). But I went to a craft shop in the morning (positive side effect of having to do the grocery shopping) that had extended its size by fifty per cent and bought various kinds of felt and silk and organza flowers; all very small, so that they will fit into my smaller projects just nicely. Spent a lot more money than originally intended, but after the days I've just had I felt I needed a treat.

[badly_knitted]

Yes, a treat for you was definitely in order so I'm glad you managed to get some crafting items!

[m_findlow]

I added about six inches to my cream scarf. I also organised all my granny squares and counted them up. Most balls gave 11 or 12 squares but one ball I only managed 10 (weird). I'm at 104 squares.
I've spent the morning magic knotting all the scrap ends of each colour to the second ball so that I can keep going and tuck one ball in my handbag for crocheting on the train.

[badly_knitted]

Wow, great progress on the scarf!

Also, the granny squares sound like they're coming along well, so many! Weird that one ball made less squares than the others though.

Ooh, what is magic knotting? Sounds intriguing!

[sister_raphael]

Just more plodding away at sewing. More gold couching and more hamming on the kontusz but my hands really hurt, so it's been slow work. I had plans to sew things on the machine also but that didn't happen. Too hot and sticky.

[badly_knitted]

Still, you're making progress even if it's not as fast as you might like. Plodding along will get you there eventually!