Check-In Post June 11th 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: Do you like to finish one project at a time or do you prefer having several on the go?


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]

Feeling a bit crap today, and the cold weather isn't helping, but I'm making progress on the current cross stitch. Most of the main flower is done, just some more shadow around it plus the stamens and anthers in the centre. Hoping to stitch a bit more while watching TV.

[wiseheart]

Be careful with your health! *hugs*

[sister_raphael]

The cross stitch is moving along then! :)

[badly_knitted]

It's coming along quite well. Didn't get much done yesterday evening unfortunately. The sky was so overcast I didn't have good light.

Behold the pretties!

[wiseheart]

I've finished the first lavender sachets - partially with Louise's help - and I think they are super cute. See for yourself:

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[liminaltime]

Those are really cute!

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[wiseheart]

Thank you. :)

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[badly_knitted]

They look beautiful!

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[wiseheart]

Thanks. I hope they'll do well on the fair.

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[badly_knitted]

I'm sure they will.

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[sister_raphael]

They are definitely super cute!

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[wiseheart]

Thank you, I had fun of them. These scraps were left from some previous project (I can't even remember which one), and I was glad to put them to good use.

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[spiralicious]

They are very cute!

[liminaltime]

I worked some more on my third Hudson hat last night! I also worked a bit more on my sweater.

To answer the question, I usually have several (too many) projects going on at a time. I get excited and can't wait to start them, and often I get distracted and hop around from project to project.

[badly_knitted]

Yay for progress on two projects!

It's good to be able to switch between projects, I think. If you get a bit bored with one you can work on something different for a while.

[sister_raphael]

Yay sweater progress!

[sister_raphael]

I had success with the roses flower crown. A few little leaves to add, but not many as they will be attached to the secret under-crown (so the girl takes her crown off but is amazingly still wearing one!)



To answer the question, I like to have a lot of things on the go so I can bounce to whatever I'm in the mood for! It means nothing is finished for ages, then a rush of jobs end all at once.

[badly_knitted]

That sounds awesome! The crown is beautiful. The roses are so realistic.

Variety is good, but it can lead to everything needing to be done at once.

[spiralicious]

Very lovely!