Check-In Post May 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: 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 tulip design is finished! I've taken photos of the two flower vases and the four Delft tile designs, but I still need to upload them to my computer, resize, and crop them, so it'll probably be the weekend at least before I can post them.


And I've started the next project, another one I already had the fabric cut and prepared for. The magazine calls them Folk Art Angels, but they don't look like folk art to me, or angels for that matter, more like fairies. I've stitched two of the designs before as cards for friends, but I like them so I'm doing them again. The first one is riding her bicycle above the clouds. I've stitched the clouds and the bicycle frame.

[wiseheart]

That sounds like a fun project! :)

[badly_knitted]

They are cute! A bit bigger than the last few pieces I've stitched, so they might take a few extra days each, but they're worth it.

[darkcedars]

That does sound cute.

[badly_knitted]

They're fun to stitch too.

[spiralicious]

Congrats on finishing the tulip!

The fairy angels sound cute :)

[badly_knitted]

Thank you!

They are. They have tiny wings, not angel-like at all, so definitely fairies.

[wiseheart]

I've finished all twenty tiny teddies, made the design for their gift boxes, cut the paper with which to wrap them to the proper size (20 times) and made the labels for the boxes, which was really easy as I used a craft punch.

Tomorrow will be full of errands, so I might not come to crafting at all, but I'm well on schedule, so I don't mind.

[badly_knitted]

Woohoo! Really well done! Even if you don't have time for crafting tomorrow, you're ready for the next stage of construction.

[wiseheart]

That was my nefarious plan, yes. ;)

[darkcedars]

That's great!

[wiseheart]

A great relief, yes! :)

[spiralicious]

Well done! You were really zipping today.

[wiseheart]

Sometimes it's necessary to do as much in advance as one can.

[malurette]

I had to tink, like, 8 rows of scarf because I'd mixed up off-white with white-white wool and it showed, bah!!

The most complicated project I've ever tackled so far has to be that jumper I did during the last holidays, but there's a strong contender with a scarf that had three different patterns on it.

[spiralicious]

Oh no!

I remember you talking about the jumper. The scarf sounds terrifying, if it's a contender.

[badly_knitted]

How annoying! You can probably only see the difference in natural light, which is why you got so far befpore realising.


Three patterns? Wow!

[spiralicious]

In the early hours of the morning, I knitted a bit on the shawl to try to relax. It helped a bit.

This afternoon, the library had a mini painting challenge instead of the monthly art book workshop, which is on a break this month. It was a lot of fun and while only 5 of us showed up, the vibe was a lot better than the workshop sessions have been the last couple months.

We were each given 3, 4x6 inch canvas panels, a cup of assorted paint brushes, a vast assortment of acrylic paint, and told to play for 2 hours. The person leading it even printed off some painting ideas for the person who asked for some.

Two of us went absolutely wild when we realized that of the 3 sets of 26 colors, 1 was all metallic paints.

Of the 3 canvases I worked on, I spent an hour working on one that is "Adonis dying on a bed of lettuce" because of a conversation at the endings comm. I am very happy with it. It looks great for the limitations. I managed a realistic skin tone, despite only using metallic paints. It has depth. No one gets it, but everyone one knows it's a dead body. The lettuce, more or less looks like lettuce. And the foreshortening on the arm is amazing.

However, it photographs horribly. All the shadows disappear and a bunch of color gets lost. A friend of mine told me Adonis' outfit looks like two red hippos kissing, which while I can't see it in person, I can totally see it in the photo. Funny, but also annoying.

I also painted an azalea that I'm not happy with. I will be attacking it with a pen at some point.

The other canvas is a random brushing of leftover paint I was using, that will be a background for a later painting.

[badly_knitted]

Glad the knitting helped you relax.

The painting sounds fun! Shame that you can't successfully photograph your Adonis. The hippos sound hilarious, but also infuriating since that's not what you were painting. Anything red is a nightmare to photograph anyway. All detail vanished.

[wiseheart]

That painting challenge really sounds like fun. I sometimes work with acrylic paint, but only on my lolly stick items, so it isn't very artistic. *g*

A shame that Adonis on the lettuce didn't work on the photo. I'd have loved to see it, despite the red hippos kissing. Is there a reason why was he dying on a bed of lettuce?