Check-In Post March 14th 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.


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[badly_knitted]

38 arm warmer rows! The two-tone purple ones are now finbished and cast off. They WERE going to be two rows longer, but I had to undo the last two rows when I realised that didn't leave enough yarn for casting off and sewing up

[smallhobbit]

That's impressive! I'm sure they look good.

[badly_knitted]

I hope they do, I'll have a better idea when they're sewn up.

[nagi_schwarz]

Go you! Two-tone sounds lovely.

[badly_knitted]

Thanks! I didn't have enough of either yarm to make a pair so the first half is dark purple and the uper half is light. Makes a nice change.

[medievalrosalie]

I have a vision of your closet being filled almost entirely of arm warmers and a solo pair of jeans and maybe a shirt. But A LOT of arm warmers!

[badly_knitted]

It's not quite that bad, I've shoved them in a cupboard by my bed and they take up very little space. My hand-made sweaters, on the other hand, take up a LOT of space. I have many, many sweaters, but I still want to make more!

[smallhobbit]

I have begun knitting a sunflower - eight petals for front of flower done.

[badly_knitted]

Oooh, pretty! Who is this one for?

[smallhobbit]

Also for my mother, it's her birthday at the end of the month.

[badly_knitted]

That'll be a cheery gift!

[nagi_schwarz]

Ooh, sounds lovely!

[smallhobbit]

Thank you.

[medievalrosalie]

That sounds pretty! Will the sunflower have a bee on it, since you do bees?

[smallhobbit]

I was thinking ladybird if I have the time.

[badly_knitted]

That would be cute!

[nagi_schwarz]

I managed 3 rows on the blanket during D&D. :D

[badly_knitted]

Woohoo! Progressing steadily!

[smallhobbit]

It's growing steadily.

[medievalrosalie]

*cheers* 3 more rows!

[nagi_schwarz]

Thank you!

[pensnest]

Last night I cast on, and knitted five lace-section rows, of a sleeveless top for my sister. Her birthday is on 5th April, which is a bank holiday here (so no post), so I shall have to try to post it on 31st March/1st April.

Each row contains 248 stitches. Wish me luck!

[badly_knitted]

That's rather a tight deadline! Definitely wishing you luck, hope it's done in time!

[medievalrosalie]

This sounds amazing!

[annofowlshire]

I finished the first of 3 plys for my intended yarn.

[badly_knitted]

Woohoo! How many yards (or metres) do you do at one time? Or is it more a case of filling some sort of bobbin? Excuse my complete lack of knowledge.

[annofowlshire]

It’s fine ^_^ This is from a 4oz batch of superwash merino wool. I break it into 3 (eyeballed) equal sections and spin each separately and then ply them together afterwards. From previous experience I’m expecting somewhere in the ~300 yard range of finished yarn, around fingering/sport weight. But it’s a new wheel and I’m a bit out of practice, so that may be off more than I would normally expect.

I know people who really meticulously plan out what their yarn is going to end up like and how much and I’ve done that when I have specific plans for the resulting yarn, but most of the time I just like to spin, see what it turns into, and leave deciding what I’ll do with it next to another day. Or year.

(I learned to knit/spin in America so all my terms and measurements are still American XD)

[badly_knitted]

So the strands might end up different lengths? I guess there's no way to be certain that all three strands will be exactly equal lengths, no matter how carefully you plan. People aren't machines. Will you be dying the yarn, do you think, or just leaving it the colour it is? Or is it already dyed?

I grew up here in England before we went metric, so I prefer yards and inches, and I still struggle with some metric measurements.

[annofowlshire]

The individual plies can end up different lengths—it’s pretty much the shortest ply is the length of the finished yarn XD Some people find other ways to use the leftovers, what I do varies.

Ah! I realize didn’t post the photo here. It’s predyed, one I did a few years ago when I was still doing such things. I’ve posted it to my newly resurrected Instagram XD

https://www.instagram.com/p/CMb6QERMM4F/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

[badly_knitted]

That makes sense! I'm sure you'll find a use for the excess.

Ooh, so pretty!

[medievalrosalie]

Oooooo pretty! Followed you too for further adventures! I've only started Insta last year but have been having a lot of fun with it!

[annofowlshire]

I have complex relationships with social media, but I really like the concept of Instagram. I’ve restarted it as a personal account rather than a professional account (since I no longer need to promote my fiber arts business and my current work is it’s own self promotion for my skills) and I think that takes a lot of the ‘pressure’ off XD I can just foodle around it with when I want to XD

[medievalrosalie]

That's a LOT of yarn! Merino is great wool! I have a merino blanket and it's so snuggly!

[annofowlshire]

My favorite to spin is polwarth, which I think is from your part of the world ^_^

[medievalrosalie]

*excited cheering*