Check-In Post May 7th 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: What's the most complicated project you've ever tackled?


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[badly_knitted]

The flowers are now stitched on the anemone card. It looks better with them ;)


Also been looking through more magazines. Until I can get my white 18 count aida soaked and ironed to get the creases out, I can't cut the fabric for some of the designs I've picked out. BUT, I have some 18 count aida that's rolled up and not all creased. It just isn't white. I have cream, pale lemon, and rustico, so I'm looking for charts that would work with those colours. I've found 2 sets that should work on the cream, half a dozen that will look great on the rustico (which is my favourite fabric), but nothing so far that I could use the lemon for. Still looking...

[wiseheart]

No matter how much stuff you have, the one thing you actually need is never among them. Life is deeply unfair.

[badly_knitted]

I'm sure I'll find some suitable projects for the pale yellow fabric if I keep looking.

[jupiter2932]

Oh, that's aggravating about the lemon. But nice work on the anemone card :D

[badly_knitted]

I'll find something suitable. The trouble is finding something that would look good on lemon, is large enough, and doesn't have fractional stitches. Mostly what I'm finding that would work colour-wise also has a ton of fractional stitches, which are not going to work on 18 hpi, even if I could follow the patterns. My brain struggles with anything beyond whole stitches.

[wiseheart]

I had two hard days, full of unpleasant things and with no time (and energy) for crafting. But there's almost tomorrow.

[badly_knitted]

Fingers crossed that tomorrow will be less stressful for you.

[jupiter2932]

Hope things perk up for you.

[shaddyr]

Well, I've not really done much since I had wrist surgery at the end of April. I did pick up my crochet project and do a few rows yesterday, but that just confirmed I'm not quite ready yet. Looping and twisting for 20 minutes created several hours of regret. I'll try again on the weekend.

What's the most complicated project you've ever tackled?

I think it was the shawl I just finished for my friend. It wasn't super hard, but complicated in counting and placement and repeats and finding that I crochet 5 rows and then had to frog 3. I think I made that thing at least twice if I added all the rows I frogged.

[badly_knitted]

Be careful with your wrist! Gentle exercise is good, but crochet is a real workout and you might need another week or two of gentle exercise to build the strength up. You don't want to undo whatever good the surgery did.

That shawl sounds like it was tricky in unexpected ways! Kudos for finishing it despite all the frogging.

[malurette]

Oh wait I just figured that packing my old internet box up and badly wrapping the cardboard box in lots of duct tape to keep it shut without hiding the return label somehow sort of counts as "crafting" if I'm desperate enough.
(And knitting a scarf is still happening slowly on the side.)

[badly_knitted]

Heee! Hope it stays closed!

You're doing fine on the scarf. Slow is still progress!