Check-In Post March 13th 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: No question today.


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

[annofowlshire]

I think like a lot of crafts, spinning starts out fiddly and impossible and then you get into your “zone.”

I learned about 10 years ago by watching videos on the Interwebs (starting with a drop spindle and moving to a wheel about 3 months later), and then after few months (and injuring my hand later), I went to knitting/spinning retreat with a master spinner (who I didn’t know at the time was like The Spinner That Everyone Knows in the US) and in about 5 minutes she had me sorted out and my spinning improved dramatically and no more hand pain and that was that. Literally life changing. To learn new techniques it’s been a lot of videos, books, the occasional in person class, and experimenting.

[badly_knitted]

There's nothing like getting help from an expert to improve your technique. Kudos for learning so much first from videos though, that's very inspiring!