Check-In Post April 15th 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: We all make mistakes - what's your most memorable crafting disaster?


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[badly_knitted]

Made more progress on my stitching than I expected. The foliage / flowers at the top are done, and I've completed the first colour on the two coleus leaves =D

[wiseheart]

That is great! Go you!

[badly_knitted]

Thank you!

[darkcedars]

Ah nearly there!

[badly_knitted]

Just the rest of the leaves and the backstitch... *grins*

[jupiter2932]

That's awesome! :D

[badly_knitted]

Thanks! Hoping I can finish the cross stitch on this one today...

[wiseheart]

I've mostly done prep work today: cut out a dozen or so little bear bases (the ones that will serve as key rings and be offered in medium-sized matchboxes that will get prettied up) for the next Christmas fair. Then I pinned together the second pot holder. And I actually got some quality writing done - all in order to avoid working on the baby book. *g*

[badly_knitted]

Sounds like you had a very productive day! The baby book can wait until you're in the mood for it. There are always other things to play with.

Congratulations for writing!

[darkcedars]

That's great you did some writing too

[jupiter2932]

Sounds like some good (and necessary) progress :D

[darkcedars]

I worked on the muppet basket just a little today. Slow but steady progress.

Other than that, I ran some sticks through the small (secondhand) chipper we bought recently, so I have wood chips when needed around the yard.

[badly_knitted]

Excellent!

Yay for woodchips too! Just watch your eyes using the chipper.

[jupiter2932]

Oh, that's handy! And good progress on the basket :D

[althea_valara]

Yesterday was really good! I spent about 3 hours crafting, and also worked on my game script for my MMO, posting another segment of it to my journal. I felt really accomplished yesterday!

I've been distracted today because Colin Ryan, one of the voice actors from said MMO, had his very first stream today. He's playing the game from the beginning, and is having so much fun and it was a delight to watch him. (He didn't start voicing his character until the first expansion of the game, so he's unfamiliar with the beginning story.)

I did get about a row done on one of the blankets while waiting for him to start his stream, and I'm going to work on the other blanket now, but yeah, got a lot less done today between that and other things.

We all make mistakes - what's your most memorable crafting disaster?

While working on this shawl, I screwed up a repeat enough that I couldn't fix it easily. So I dropped the entire repeat down to the last lifeline, and reknit just that repeat. Still massively proud of myself for managing that!

[badly_knitted]

Well done with yesterday's crafting, and Yay for enjoying yourself watching the streaming. Seeing other people's enthusiasm for something you enjoy is always fun, and one of the voice actors... so great!

Ooof! That looks a very complicated lacy pattern, messing that up and having to undo it must have been a nightmare! Thank goodness you'd put in lifelines. Well done for managing to save the shawl without undoing int completely.

[jupiter2932]

No textile crafting, but I've made a delicious apple crisp :D

[badly_knitted]

Ooh, that sounds tasty!