Check-In Post - September 14th 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 piece of advice would you give someone interested in trying your favourite craft?


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

[badly_knitted]

Not much in the way of crafting yet, it weas warmer outside than indoors so I spent the afternoon in the garden, but...


Strictly Come Dancing starts tonight, so this morning I got out the arm warmers I was making when the last season ended, did a little checking or rows etc., and discovered that I'd cast on 53 stitches for the first one, which was finished, but 57 for the second of the pair, so I ripped that back to the start, cast on the right number of stitches and knitted the first two rows so I can just pick it up and carry on this evening.

[yarnofariadne]

Finished row 70/119 on the baby blanket!

[badly_knitted]

WOOOHOOO! You're storming along!

[wiseheart]

Well, that is crafting, too. I like it that you coordinate your crafts with your favourite TV programmes. *g*

[wiseheart]

Go you!

[wiseheart]

I've been working on Card #29, with a great many setbacks. These patterns that work with vectors are a "wonderful" source of stupid mistakes because it's very easy to go in the wrong direction if one is distracted, and my life is such that I get distracted at every 5 minutes. But I've finished the two little silver bells, and will now work on the pine tree branch from which they are hanging. The original pattern didn't have the branch, just the pair of bells, but I found it too bland I decided to improve the design. The results are... interesting, to put it mildly, and bloody hard to get right, but we'll see.

[yarnofariadne]

Good luck with the arm warmer!

[yarnofariadne]

Well done on the effort you're putting into the card!

[badly_knitted]

Good luck, I hope your branch turns out well!

[badly_knitted]

Knitting something simple is the only thing I can do while watching Strictly =D

[badly_knitted]

It's going well =)

It was going well before, just too many stitches!

[m_findlow]

Still alive and blanket finally finished after close to a year of making granny squares on the train every day.
Pictures here: https://m-findlow.dreamwidth.org/1250855.html

If folks thought me crocheting on the train was weird, they'll be even more weirded out now that I'm cross stitching. Why did I ever think I could do these two kits for framing in Mum's spare room by Christmas when they only arrived two weeks ago? Guh.

[badly_knitted]

More people should craft as they commute to work by train or bus. I used to knit on the bus to work and I didn't have far to go, maybe a 15-20 minute ride depending on traffic.

The blanket, as you know, is awesome. Good luck with the cross stitch. What designs are you stitching? With luck you'll get at least one done by Christmas.

[wiseheart]

Your blanket is gorgeous!

[m_findlow]

Thank you! It should keep me a bit warmer during the cold months when I want to watch TV in the front room where the heating doesn't work very well because of it all escaping up the stairs.