Check-In Post April 1st 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: Where do you do most of your crafting?


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[badly_knitted]

I still have to turn the stitched piece for my sister into a birthday card, but I didn't feel like hunting out the card clank and other suitable bits and pieces I'd need, so I got out the small owl designs I was working on last year (and probably the year before). I've completed 10 so far (I think), and I was partway through one when I stopped stitching so I picked that one up to continue.


It wasn't fun. I couldn't find where I was on the chart, because the design is in white, cream, and three shades of beige that are so similar it's hard to tell them apart, plus a few dark brown highlights that I hadn't stitched yet. The lines drawn on the chart to show the backstitch are so thick that it's impossible to see the chart symbols underneath, so I kept having to guess which colour to use. Plus, my stitching on it wasn't very good, I'm never as neat when working with two strands. I'm determined to finish the set though, I only have this one and a much smaller barn owl to do, and I want to finish the set before I start something new, because I'd like not to have threads for a bunch of different projects all over the place, so I can't find the ones I want.


I finished the body and part of the head, so now all that's left is the rest of the head, the background (a patch of dark blue sky with the moon and a few stars) and the backstitch. I AM going to finish it!

[wiseheart]

That sounds like a really complicated design. How are your eyes keeping up?

[badly_knitted]

They're a bit crossed, lol! I don't regret stitching these designs, but they're certainly not easy. Might not have been so much of a problem if I hadn't started this one and then left it for months until I completely forgot what I was doing. =/

[spiralicious]

I admire your determination!

[badly_knitted]

I iz old and stubborn, lol!