Check-In Post May 20th 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

[cathyw]

I have picked up a pair of socks that I had set aside to think about for a while, and I maybe needed to think about it a little longer because I started making mistakes immediately.

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The most complicated project I ever did... torn between two of them.
Celestarium is many pages of non-repeating chart, and I made it harder on myself by using different sizes of bead for different magnitudes of star. But... except for the beads, it was stockinette stitch in the round? once I figured out the chart management it was pretty straightforward.

Sheherazade is ye olde Extremely Dramatic Beaded Lace Shawl, which I upped the difficulty factor on by trying to use the entire ball of yarn. I needed a spreadsheet to track stitches knitted vs yarn remaining.

Of the two, Celestarium is the one that other knitters comment on when I wear it, so... :)

[badly_knitted]

Those mistakes were waiting for whenever you picked your socks up. You just have to get past them and then you'll be fine.

Celestarium is very beady indeed, but I think I like Sheherazade best. Both are very complex and very lovely though.

[spiralicious]

I swear socks just like to be problematic. Good luck with your future dealings with them.

Both of those are gorgeous. Also very complicated.