Check-In Post March 4th 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]

Probably not going to do any knitting tonight because I don't feel like it, so I'll just read fanfic instead.

[wiseheart]

Reading fanfic can be therapeutic. *g*

[badly_knitted]

Reading fanfic can also blow ones mind with teh smut o_O

[jupiter2932]

Never a bad time to kick back and read some fic :D

[badly_knitted]

This is true, and I'm trying to read something every day. So much I haven't read yet!

[peaceful_sands]

Relax and chill - if you find something good to read, it will be a very pleasant way to spend the evening.

[badly_knitted]

I found something to read easily enough. It was... very enlightening, lol!

[spiralicious]

Reading fanfic is an underrated pastime. I hope you found some fun ones :)

[badly_knitted]

Just one, it was quite long, but it was very enjoyable *grins*

[spiralicious]

Excellent :D

[wiseheart]

I've repurposed the buttons of another nightshirt, sewing the placket shut instead; four down, another one to go. So, that counts as crafting. Go me (preferably to bed, soon)!

[jupiter2932]

That's some very productive crafting :D

[wiseheart]

Not to mention necessary. Those darling little buttons were wasted on the nightshirts; they'll find their true calling in some craft project, eventually.

[badly_knitted]

Excellent! Hope you have a good night!

[wiseheart]

Thanks. By the grace of God, I still sleep like a log at night, even though I have to get up at least twice to assist Mum. But as long as I can fall asleep at once right afterwards, it's not too bad.

[peaceful_sands]

Sounds like good progress

[wiseheart]

On a cleaning day, it really is.

[spiralicious]

Well done! I hope you slept well :)

[wiseheart]

I did, thanks.

[malurette]

I'm done with the decreases on this sleeve and I've learned how to catch and partially unfuck with a crochet a stitch that fell like three or four rows before and you've already knitted over and over before noticing it went missing. Even though I'm getting slightly better at handling the double-point needle I will *definitely* buy this circular needle.

[badly_knitted]

There is nothing more useful to knitter than a crochet hook to catch dropped stitches and run them back up!

You're making great progress on that sleeve. Well done!

[peaceful_sands]

Well done on the rescue plan.

[spiralicious]

It sounds like things are going better.

[tielan]

Gathering the bodice of a top. Knits are...interesting. To say the least.

[badly_knitted]

Good luck with the bodice, I hope you can get the gathers even.

[jupiter2932]

Oooh, good luck! I've never gotten the hang of knits.

[peaceful_sands]

Hope things work out well.

[spiralicious]

Good luck!

[jupiter2932]

Well, I started off with the intention of hemming a new used skirt I bought; but then I had to dig out my bernette, realize I didn't have an appropriate foot, then unearth my hand sewing kit, and by the time I was done finding where I'd put all of my sewing things it was time to go run errands with my roommate, and now I'm just too tired. But! Once I have both time and energy, I've got everything ready to go, I guess xD

[peaceful_sands]

Hopefully you'll get there soon.

[spiralicious]

Isn't that the way sometimes? Good luck when you get to it.

[badly_knitted]

Good intentions let down by things being uncooperative. But... You're all set now, so the next attempt should get the job done! Good luck!

[wiseheart]

Sounds stressful. Good luck next time.

[readera]

I was able to get a row of knitting on my shawl done. I'm up to 14 stripes now.

[peaceful_sands]

Well done - steady progress by the sound of it.

[spiralicious]

Well done!

[badly_knitted]

Woo hooo! It's coming along well!

[peaceful_sands]

I managed about one length of wool on the tapestry before it was too much and tiredness washed over me.

[spiralicious]

You are making great progress

[badly_knitted]

Progress is progress! Hope you had a good night.

[wiseheart]

Every little bit counts!

[spiralicious]

Today went alright, I think. The card I had planned was a simple bunny peeps themed card. Before I went to Lynne's, I make 2 bunny peep stencils in 2 different sizes and texted Lynne a photo of some decorated peeps (big lips, glasses, mustaches, etc) and a picture I found online of a card that looked very similar to what I pictured in my head. When I got there, I picked out a patterned paper, some precut & scored blank card bases in a coordinating color, a sheet of white paper, and a punch. Then I set things up while chatting with Lynne; handed out the blank cards, cut the patterned paper to size and handed that out, stenciled bunnies and cut them out, and punched some fancy white squares to write "you're my kind of peep" on. After we found the markers & colored pencils, I got Lynne & her son coloring bunnies for their cards.

Lynne was very difficult to get with the program. First, she did not like the way I had cut out the bunnies and had us get her tiny antique sewing scissors so she could touch them up. Then she was mad they were not realistic bunnies and had no arms, so I showed her the pictures again, which satisfied that point. She then thought they were too plain, so we all reminded her she could decorate them however she wanted, and I showed her the pictures again and what her son was doing (his bunnies had green ears at the time, later they had pink & blue polka dots), but she thought what her son was doing was abhorrent and that she couldn't do anything like in the picture because those bunnies were cookies and we were not making cookies. Eventually, after about an hour of this, I convinced her to just try putting blue polka dots on one. That seems to have opened the flood gates. She drew parts of a suit on a bunny she had previously colored pink, but decided to throw her purple bunny away because it wasn't right somehow, which is fine. I told them they could do as many or as few bunnies as they wanted.

During that time, I also did the lettering on the white squares, cut out extra bunnies for her son who wanted to start over on one of his, and decorated my bunnies.

Then we glued the square of patterned paper to the card bases, and the bunnies & saying on to that.

Lynne said she had fun, but that it was entirely too much fussy work for her to do.

I am not sure how I could have simplified it down more than "please color bunny, then glue these three pieces of paper I have pre cut for you together while I walk you through it."

The housekeeper was there as well. She's nice, but she has a tendency to unintentionally stir the pot. She also suggested that next week we should do St. Patrick's Day cards. She's not wrong, but I have no idea how I am going to pull that off.

The fact that I get along with Lynne's son also seems to be very irritating for her.

It was very tense, but cute cards were made, brains got exercised, and I think some fun was had.

[badly_knitted]

It was a success in that cards got made, but Lynne does sound like she's becoming very difficult. At least her son seems to have had a good time.

Perhaps for St Patrick's Day you could decorate cards with shamrocks? I don't know, I'm not Irish.

You did very well.

[spiralicious]

Yes, to all of that.

I was going to do shamrocks, but I didn't have time to make a stencil, so we did the green checkerboard pattern cards.

Thanks :)

[wiseheart]

You are a very good friend. *hugs*

[spiralicious]

Thank you *hugs*