Check-In Post June 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: 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

[illariy]

Oooh, what kind of diary notes to you take on your crafting projects? I am just trying to get into projects that last longer than one day again and wondering how to track progress there, mostly a) to motivate myself and b) get some time estimates on how long stuff takes me.

Hoping your weather is better this weekend!

[badly_knitted]

Mostly, just when I start something and when I finish it, so I get some idea of how long it takes. Anything more detailed gets posted here. If it's a knitting project, I'll make notes on when I started and finished each part, and sometimes how many rows I knitted.

I also have a sheet of paper where I make notes of how many stitches I cast on (good if the pattern has several sizes, so I know which size I'm doing), and also which rows are increase rows on the sleeves, so they both match. Anything that might be useful if I use the same pattern another time. Then I leave the paper tucked inside the pattern when I'm finished, so the notes are there for future use.

Tracking the number of rows is vitally important in knitting, because you want front and back to be the same length, and the sleeves to match.