Check-In Post - September 26th 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

[tielan]

I am sewing seams for a quit top, which I haven't done in ages.

A couple of weeks ago, I won an award for one of my quilts in a nearby show; it was not at all expected because I didn't enter the quilt in any of the judging categories, but there are apparently a few awards given out through the quilt show, even if the quilt isn't put in for judging and this was one of those.

So I'm inspired! (And I bought fabric. Mea culpa...)

[fred_mouse]

Congratulations on the award!

What is the current quilt pattern?

[tielan]

It's called the Plaidish quilt - might be the "laid-back plaidish" according to the designer. I've got a pic of one I made last year in the next post.

[badly_knitted]

Congratulations!

Good luck on your new quilt! (None of us can resist adding to our stashes).

[tielan]

I went to pick up a overlocker from a friend today, and she's putting her stash away after it kind of slowly taking over her 'spare room' a couple of years ago and discovered...she has a lot more fabric than she thought she did.

I think some collections (fabric, yarn, books) tend to bend space and time around them. I know that I opened a drawer today that I've opened before and there was fabric in it that wasn't there the last time I pulled it open and which I'd forgotten I have...

[badly_knitted]

I swear things like yarn and fabric breed when no one is looking. They just spontaneously appear if you give then enough time. I'm always finding things I forgot about, usually while trying to find something I'm sure I've got, but which is being unhelpfully elusive.