Check-In Post March 9th 2021

[badly_knitted]

Hello to all members, 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.


Today's Question: What do you do when something you're making isn't going right? Do you abandon it, start over, or what?


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[badly_knitted]

I've sewn up a second pair of arm warmers and prepared the next pair!

One of my WiPs is a red cabled sweater. I'd done the front before I abandoned it a few years ago, and more recently I knitted one sleeve and started the second, but I'm not happy with it. The neck at the front is too high (I can't stand anything up near my throat), the tops of the raglan sleeves are very narrow and in fact the whole sleeves are narrow, and I have serious doubts about whether my head will even fit through the neck hole once I'm done. I've spent weeks on knitting it but now I'm seriously thinking of unpicking it and starting over with a different pattern, but... over half the yarn has already been knitted up, and anyone who knits knows what unpicked yarn is like. Not sure how it would look re-knitted. *sigh*

[smallhobbit]

Glare at it until it submits? Generally I'll adapt. I don't like wasting effort, reworking something small is fine, but otherwise I'll find a workaround.

[annofowlshire]

I got an inch or so done on the cuff of my sock! I know once I get the wheel I’ll be SPIN ALL THE THINGS so I want to get this second sock done ASAP.

Whether or not I start over or rip back really depends on what it is, who it’s intended for, and how bad it is. My son (2) pulled out one of my DPNs on my early ribbing on my current sock and my pick-up was not perfect and it was only 5 rows in, I was like “oh well!”, fixed the stitch count and kept carried on XD I have a shawl (Haruni) that has a big glaring error in the showpiece front, but when I knit that again for my good friend’s wedding shawl, you can bet there’s not a single mistake allowed in that one!

So it really depends. I don’t mind “wasting” work, really. I’m a process crafter. I knit because I like the motions of knitting. I spin because I like the motions. I’m not really fussed about the final product (although I am a serial finisher—I rarely abandon projects). But I think it’s more about whether I think it’s worth the bother for that particular item XD

[medievalrosalie]

What a loaded question. Sometimes pull apart and redo. There's not much which can't be salvaged and fixed. That said...

Other times I have to get extra fabric and make anew (like the time I made 2 sleeves for the same side of a kirtle and had hand sewn 30 buttonholes on each one). Usually tears are involved.

I've done no crafting today because my kitty is still sick and a heap of new books arrived in the mail and then a bog water dragon was on my deck and the kitty and I sat with it and fed it caterpillars.

Here is sick kitty with heart shaped nose and best of yet- two half hearts on her sleeves which make up a whole one. https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/medievalrosalie/86045060/72438/72438_600.jpg