Check-In Post August 1st 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

[spiralicious]

I think it's been over a month since I checked in. Oops. Things actually were a bit crazier than usual. I'm not sure how much you all actually want to hear about, so I'll skip to the crafting.

I managed to keep up Monday card making with Lynne. This latest Monday is the only one we missed and she canceled because of a schedule conflict. Things have been going relatively well. Nothing really to note one way or the other, beyond designing cards that appeal to her aesthetics, but are slightly challenging go over better than cards that meet her current skill level.

For my birthday, I got a set of acrylic paints in an odd color assortment from my aunt (they are sort of neon pastels) and a set of wooden mushrooms to paint and 2 mini cross-stitch kits from my mom. The cross-stitch kits are Care Bears. One is Bedtime Bear and the other is Grumpy Bear. The hoops are only 2.89 in (7.3 cm). I haven't gotten to play with any of it yet.

The monthly workshop for pages for the art book was basically using acrylic ink like watercolor. We were given pads of watercolor paper, access to acrylic inks, a variety of brushes & water, pointy sticks, straws to blow ink around, droppers, and masking tape in several widths and told to go play, essentially. It was fun.

Our library also had a claymation workshop in its Makers space at the end of the month. They provided polymer clay and tools. You create something. And one at a time, the adult services director helped you film a short claymation film and walked you through editing. In the end, you got to keep your clay creation. I'm not sure what the library is doing with the films. Mine was a bat flying across the screen and my mom's was a cat riding a Roomba across the screen while whipping it's tail.

In midst of all that, I got in one knitting session on the wingspan scarf, but I think I've forgot how to do the knit front and back stitch, as I have the right number of stitches, but they look slightly wonky and don't feel right.

And I made a condolence card to send to a memorial service I wasn't able to go to.

And I still haven't seen this knitting kit I supposedly got back in June while I was house sitting.

[badly_knitted]

Sounds like you've been busy with your crafting. Playing with inks must have been interesting, seeing the different effects you could get with the pointy sticks and straws. I love the whole claymation workshop idea. What fun! Wish I could see the movies, your flying bat sounds brilliant!

Hopefully you'll be able to figure out your knitting and get back to enjoying that.

Hope the kit turns up in the end.

[spiralicious]

The inks were definitely a lot of fun. I never thought I would get to do anything like the claymation workshop. It was so fun. I've kept my eye out for the videos getting posted online and so far, nothing.

Thanks!