Check-In Post May 25th 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]

I have started the final fairy! This one is facing in the opposite direction, so I've stitched her arm and hand, the fiddly bouquet she's holding (6 colours!), and part of her apron. Still a long way to go of course, but it's a good start.

[wiseheart]

A very good start indeed!

[badly_knitted]

Thanks! I'm happy with progress.

[darkcedars]

6 colors on the bouquet does sound fiddly, all that color changing.

[badly_knitted]

It was. Two shades of green for leaves, 2 shades of pink, then purple and blue. Worth the effort though.

[illariy]

Ooooh, the final fairy already? You have been making quick progress on these fairies indeed. Many cheers! :D

Lots of colours on the bouquet, though! Hope your Sunday is filled with crafting, too.

[badly_knitted]

I have so many things I want to stitch that I'm stitching whenever I have time and it's still daylight. Can't stitch easily under artificial light, it's hard to see the colours, especially light ones against a white background.

I've had a good crafting day, thanks!

[wiseheart]

The third day in a row that I didn't do any crafting. I had chores upon chores, and then I was just too exhausted and opted for a long, nice nap.

[badly_knitted]

Sensible. You need to rest to get your strength back.

[wiseheart]

I was on the brink of collapsing, so it was very necessary indeed.

[badly_knitted]

Definitely don't want to collapse!

[darkcedars]

Napping almost mystical to me (can't sleep while the sun is above the horizon, started when I was 4). :P

Fingers crossed for crafting tomorrow.

[wiseheart]

Interesting. Mum says I never slept during the day as a child - was a very good sleeper during night in exchange. But now that I have reached official hag age, I can no longer go on 5-6 hours of sleep, so I have to make up for very short nights in the afternoon.

[althea_valara]

Haven't checked in for a while...

Okay, so I bought six colors of green for niece’s blanket, plus white for the border. When I started the blanket, I was just like “Okay, she’s graduating high school, make the adult size”. I failed to look at the actual measurements of the adult size per the pattern… it’s BIG!!! And my gauge is a bit loose, so I’m coming out with a blanket that’s nearly 60” wide. WOWZERS.

I am working on the fifth green now. It is measuring 48” long. I have five more rows to go of this color. I am running out of time, and while it’s still theorectically possible to do a sixth color as well, my body/mind are ready to be DONE. So, I am pretty sure I am going to stop after the fifth color and go to the border. Friends elsenet agree with this.

I made a quick swatch for the border… it’s not the full border, I just wanted to see the colors. I swatched once with the lightest green (aka sixth color) and once with white. My swatches were only about 2-3 rounds of border. The actual border is 7 rounds.

I think the Light Green border looks a bit dingy. So my plan right now is to do six rounds of the border in white, then the last round in the light green. That way, the blanket will still have some light green in it (which I used in her matching pillow) but the color will be more of a pop.

Mom and at least one other person thinks just one round of light green won't be enough, but I think it will. The border is mostly rounds of single crochet, but I figure if I do the last round in half-double or double, that will be plenty of the light green to balance it out. But I will assess after I do, say, four rounds of white.

[badly_knitted]

That sounds plenty big enough!

I like your plans for the border, and I think you're right to reassess when you're past the midway point. That way you can start the light green earlier if you decide that would work better, rather than getting to the last row and changing your mind. The blanket is going to look great, I'm sure =D

[darkcedars]

Sounds like you've thought it out a lot, and you can always add more green once you get to that point if needed.

[darkcedars]

No crafting again today.

I do have the first coat of paint on the last side of the garage done. Storms tonight, so I may be up late.

[badly_knitted]

Well done for getting the first coat finished! Hope the storms aren't too bad.

[wiseheart]

Actually, that should count as crafting, too!

[badly_knitted]

It should, I agree. Crafting on a large scale.

[malurette]

I've mended my third pants. And decided that I would turn the chevron into a zigzag patterned on that redone scarf because why not. Did a bit of gardening too.

[badly_knitted]

Yay, all pants done!

That sounds like it will be fun!

Also yay for gardening. I've got rain keeping me indoors again.

[foreverdawning]

The most complicated project? I used to make stuffed animals out of clothes I had outgrown. I wouldn't consider it that complicated today but at the time I was eleven and barely started sewing so it felt like a huge undertaking. Now I have to work a full time job so I don't really craft as often as I'd like.

[badly_knitted]

That sounds an ambitious project for an 11-year-old!

So sorry you don't get much crafting time these days.