Check-In Post March 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: 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]

I've picked up the stitches for the sweater neckband but I haven't started knitting it yet. Instead I did the last 30 rows on the second of a pair of arm warmers for neighbour daughter. Just got to cast off and sew that pair up.

[wiseheart]

Today I was mostly working on the Easter bunnies... well, on the egg pouches in which they'll be sitting anyway. Each one of those has three concentric hearts as decoration, and I was stitching on those hearts all morning. The results: 3 out of the 14 pouches have all 3 of their hearts stitched on, the remaining 11 have two. I'm nearing the end of this phase, but there's still a lot of minutiae to do.

[syderia]

After a six-month break (who would have thought that quitting the job that gave you burnout, having two months of notice period and then starting a new job would be exhausting?), I picked up a hook again this weekend.
I'm now four small granny squares into the 56 I will need to make a baby blanket for an upcoming niblings.
They're going relatively quickly, and they're easy enough that I can do them while watching light stuff on the tv, unlike amiguri.

[peaceful_sands]

Managed a little bit more of the tapestry but not much.

Tried some new cooking this morning as I made lunch/brunch for family for mother's day - my parents, my sister and her youngest all came to eat. It was a 'veggie hash' - I had something similar at a local restaurant for brunch with a friend a few weeks ago. I also tried baking eggs - they were a bit less successful because they'd overcooked and so the yolks were solid - I might try them again at some point just need to work out whether I need to drop the temperature or the cooking time.

[altamira16]

I am doing i-cord bind off for the first time. I lost yarn chicken on the bind off, but it is nice to be almost done.

[tielan]

Sewing seams on a top because it's a day off.