Check-In Post - September 27th 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]

No work on the sweater today, the rain stopped and the path dried out so I swept up the fallen leaves, then did some work around the side of the house cutting brambles. I hardly ever go around that side because it's hard to get to, so it's a mess.


But I added 22 rows to the arm warmer this evening!

[wiseheart]

Poor you and your never-ending war against vegetation!
But at least the arm warmer is growing.

[badly_knitted]

I'm at 62 rows, aiming for 90, so the first of the pair is coming along well =)

[sister_raphael]

yay arm warmers! and gardening!

[badly_knitted]

Got to keep warm somehow.

[readera]

No crafting today but I did some cooking. I made key lime pie for my partner's birthday tomorrow & salsa for snacks. I also did the grocery shopping & that is getting delivered tonight.

[badly_knitted]

Key lime pie... Yum! That is edible crafting at its finest =D

[sister_raphael]

Cooking is just crafting with food. :)

[tielan]

Finished sewing the remaining half-blocks for the current quilt (the Plaid-ish quilt pattern, which I'm doing in Ruby Star Society fabrics for a very patchy look.

This is one I prepared earlier!



I've sorted the half-blocks into sets of 10 (I need 62 in order to make 31 blocks, I think I have the correct number but I may be one over) and I'll finish ironing them tomorrow, then just try to sew 10 blocks a session for the next couple of weeks. Dunno how often the session is gonna happen, but that's the plan.

[badly_knitted]

That's awesome! So colourful!

Hope the sewing goes well.

[sister_raphael]

Wow that's fantastic! It's very cheerful!

[fred_mouse]

that is a very striking quilt!

[wiseheart]

Impressive!

[medievalrosalie]

Had my publisher meeting this morning and it looks like it's all go!!! Crafting on hold while I work like a lunatic getting the fine tuning finished! eeeeeeee! The editor liked the cover I made. WIN!

[badly_knitted]

WOOOHOOO! Awesome news! Good luck getting all the details finished =D

[sister_raphael]

They've essentially okayed it, but I needed to make a formal submission before the contract, but it's all stations go. The submission is in and I think their approvals meetings are Fridays, so I have a few days up my sleeves. I need to get image sources also. I have some already.

[badly_knitted]

Fingers crossed that the submission goes through smoothly.

[fred_mouse]

That is very exciting! I hope it goes fabulously.

[wiseheart]

Congratulations!

[sister_raphael]

Our Great, Great Grandma-in-law Lillian passed away today at 103 and she wasn't in a nursing home or anything. I didn't know her well, but she was pretty lovely. No crafting but lots of writing. It's very wet and windy out, so a good time to be indoors. I need to get on with those buttons though.

[badly_knitted]

What an amazing life she must have had! So sad for you and your family though. *hugs*

Yay for writing! Wet and windy is the perfect weather for staying inside. I'm sure you'll get to the buttons soon.

[wiseheart]

Sad to hear it, but as long as you remember her she won't be gone completely.

[fred_mouse]

I've done a token ten sets of three on the current crochet blanket. I might get it out to work on more later, if I end up watching something.

[badly_knitted]

As we say here, all progress is good progress!

[fred_mouse]

<3

[liminaltime]

A couple of weeks ago, I started making Beret de Printemps, and it's been a lot of fun and coming together quickly.

Advice for my favorite craft (knitting): it may be tempting to dive into big, complex projects, but I'd say start small, and remember that large projects are going to consume a lot of time.

[badly_knitted]

Wow, that's such a cute beret! Glad it's going well.

Yes, very good advice. It's easy to start something big and then get frustrated that it's growing so slowly. Personally, I started with baby clothes because I found out I was going to be an auntie. They were perfect because they were small, but there were all levels of complexity so I learned a lot of techniques that I might not have learned otherwise.