Check-In Post April 19th 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?


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]

The leaves are finished and looking appropriately leafy, and I've started on the flower!

[wiseheart]

Congratulations!

[darkcedars]

Great!

[jupiter2932]

That's awesome! :D

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Yay! Progress!

[spiralicious]

Hurray!

[wiseheart]

I wandered around in a shopping centre I hadn't visited since before the plague and found a huge Tedi (shop for craft supplies, stationary, party articles and the likes) there. Naturally, I had to take a look and bought a few practical things (the price was still impressive in the end...).

Before that, though, I had worked a bit on the baby book. Page #1 is more or less done; I still have to add the embellishments and glue the finished pockets on, but that's easy. I think I had hesitated this long with it because the original seemed so unnecessarily complicated and I didn't know how to simplify the design so that it would still look good. But I had a lightbulb moment in the morning, so it's good.

[badly_knitted]

Excellent! Looks like you just needed time for your brain to sort through the issue and find a solution!

Also great that you got some more crafting supplies! Always best to buy things when you see them, otherwise the next time you look there won't be any.

[darkcedars]

Glad you figured out how to make it less fiddly.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Fun! Shopping and lightbulb moments. Both are Very Good :)

[jupiter2932]

That sounds like a nice shopping trip :D.

Sounds like some good progress on the book, as well.

[spiralicious]

How fun!

Congrats on the baby book progress. Glad you figured out how to make it work.

[darkcedars]

I'm settling down with my muppet basket finally, after a lot of chores.

A crafting fail:

Years ago I wanted to make a teddy bear, c2c graphgan. The pattern called for Bernat Blanket, which I'd never used so I went with it. I'm mildly allergic to polyester. It has never been a problem with yarn but it turned out to be a problem with this one! I did finish the blanket, and even though I know it was cute I *hated* it.

[badly_knitted]

Oh dear, allergic to your own crafting, that would definitely be a disaster!

You deserve to relax with your muppet basket.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Muppet basket! Yay!

Oh, gosh. Finding out your allergic to your own craft. Ahhhh!

[jupiter2932]

Good luck finishing your basket :D

Oof, that's an unfortunate allergy. My roommate's allergic to wool, which I didn't know until after I'd made her a scarf she couldn't wear, but basic scarves are way less effort than c2c graphgans.

[spiralicious]

Hurray for finally being able to have time with your basket!

Oh my, that sounds hellish.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

I finished a cross stitch. It's the Sanskrit character for OM, a holy sound in many religions. It's for my son's birthday on Sunday. He picked out the color of the thread and the backing. Another pattern from Cross Stitch to Calm.

[jupiter2932]

Oh, that's such a nice color combo for it. It looks really nice :)

[badly_knitted]

That's awesome!

[spiralicious]

Very nice!

[darkcedars]

It looks great, especially with that background not being white.

[wiseheart]

It looks beautiful.

[jupiter2932]

No crafting time today, because I got sidetracked with writing and housework, but I'm hoping to get down to it this weekend.

I have way less crafting disasters than abandoned/forgotten projects. The ones that come to mind are a few sewing projects--back when I actually sewed xD--where I fudged up cutting the pieces and had to do sleeves or ruffles in a different fabric.

[badly_knitted]

Writing is a fun way of getting sidetracked, housework not so much.

Sometimes a bit of contrast can be good, even if it wasn't supposed to be that way!

[spiralicious]

I realized stitch-n-scream started the 18th, so I looked up the movie schedule and either checked out or reserved the movies I could from the library. The plan today, was to knit and watch yesterday's and today's movies. However, a ton of little things stressed me out more than I already was so, I ended up watching the first Downton Abbey movie and chilling instead.

Stitch-n-scream is an annual event to mark the halfway point to Halloween. If you are signed up for the newsletter, you get a free pattern for the group crochet project (it's a house for a Halloween village this year) and there is a movie list, one for each of the 13 nights leading up to halfway to Halloween. You are free to do your own project and change the movie list for yourself if you want though.

[badly_knitted]

Stitch-n-scream sounds fun, I hope you get to participate once your stress levels settle enough.