Check-In Post March 22nd 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: If you were only allowed one craft, which would you pick?


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]

Flipped through some more magazines and found a design I like that I think I can stitch fairly quickly if I use 18 hpi fabric and one strand of thread. I stitch much faster with one stand because I don't get the thread so twisted. Anyway, it's a bunch of daffodils in a vase, which seems very April to me. Only trouble is, it's stitched in Anchor rather than DMC, and I'm missing two of the colours. Trying to get the missing two off ebay...

[darkcedars]

Good luck!

My daffodils have been blooming like mad.

[badly_knitted]

Thanks.

I think the few I had must have drowned =(

[wiseheart]

Why is it that no matter how many supplies you have, the next project always calls for something that you *don't* have?

[badly_knitted]

Well, the people who make the supplies have to get money out of us somehow!

[jupiter2932]

Oh, that's aggravating. Hope you can get the floss quickly :)

[badly_knitted]

I sent a message to a seller but I haven't heard back.

[spiralicious]

Good luck!

[badly_knitted]

Thanks!

[darkcedars]

No crafting for the last couple days, but today I started a deep clean of the bedroom, which includes organizing the bookcase, where I also have craft books & art supplies. So I decided that counts. Tomorrow I'll be moving the dresser that hosts the yarn stash to clean behind it.

[badly_knitted]

Ah, crafting adjacent cleaning and organising! Well done!

[wiseheart]

That definitely counts!

[jupiter2932]

Hey, that sounds like good progress :D and absolutely counts

[spiralicious]

Well done! And it absolutely counts.

[wiseheart]

Culinary crafting today. Again. But at least the biscuits are all baked now.

[badly_knitted]

Yay for the yumminess!

[jupiter2932]

Oh, delicious :D

[spiralicious]

Hurray!

[jupiter2932]

Between work and socializing with actual human people, no time for crafting today. But hoping to do some this weekend.

[badly_knitted]

You see real human people? Wow! *grins* Most of my socialising is done on the internet, although I did talk to my neighbour across the road a couple of days ago.

[jupiter2932]

XD I work from home and don't have a car (and no public transpo here), so mostly I just see people online too, aside from my roommate.

[badly_knitted]

Sometimes It's the best way to socialise. I have social anxiety so it's easier to tall to people online. Less likely to open my mouth and stick my foot in if I can check what I'm saying before hitting post.

[jupiter2932]

Yeah, I feel that. My anxiety's gotten somewhat better, but sometimes it does really help to have that extra layer in between :)

[badly_knitted]

Glad your anxiety isn't as bad. Mine... Some days are worse than others.

[jupiter2932]

I'm sorry, that's really rough. It's an awful thing to deal with.

[badly_knitted]

It is, but I deal. Have been dealing for many years.

[spiralicious]

Yesterday, I practiced more Zentangles in my art journal.

Today, I went through a book on paper crafts I had gotten for Christmas. It has over 300 projects, ranging from paper-mache, decoupage, actually making paper, origami, etc. The projects themselves are really dated, but the skills you learn doing them are not so I'm pondering how to best to tweak them. It's actually a really nice book.

I was going to knit, but the brain wouldn't brain properly, so it just never happened.

[badly_knitted]

Yay for Zentangles (I googled, and... Pretty!)

Even dated designs sometimes have something to offer, if only in new techniques that could be used for other things.

I hate when that happens. Sometimes brains need a rest too though.