Check-In Post July 29th 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 is your most essential piece of crafting equipment?


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[althea_valara]

I am commenting mostly to answer this question:

This Week's Question: What is your most essential piece of crafting equipment?

That's an easy one: my brain. I sometimes make my own patterns, and I could not do it without the knowledge I've gained over the years AND my spark of creativity and curiosity. So yeah, definitely my brain.

Today I spent a half hour working on a crocheted bag, but that's it. I had chosen it as a potential Nerdopolis project, but the round is ending soon and I just don't have enough time to do an entire bag before it does. Well, okay, I probably COULD have done it if I did nothing but crochet today, but that sounded too much like work. I'll make the bag eventually because it's cute (it's a tote bag made up of squares done in tapestry crochet, featuring silhouettes of cats).

Tomorrow I intend to find my Zoom Loom and finish the square I was making on it. I've misplaced the thing somewhere, curses!

Other than that, haven't done too much.

[badly_knitted]

Where would we be without our brains and all the accumulated knowledge they hold?

The bag does sound very cute.

Hope you find your loom! It's amazing how easily things can be misplaced. Then they turn up when you're looking for something else entirely. Last week while looking for my stopwatch, I found my fabric gauge I've been searching for the last few months.