Check-In Post - October 5th 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?


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[badly_knitted]

No crafting again, but I'm hopeful I might be able to try some knitting tomorrow. Just don't want to put too much pressure on that finger too soon and risk it blistering again.


I did spend some time outside again today, since it was dry out, but all I did was fish as many dock roots off the compost heap as I could find and consign them to the garden waste bin. While researching docks last nigh, I learned that they will grow rather than rotting on the compost heap, and sure enough, they were getting new leaves and while rootlets, So now I need to keep an eye on the compost heap too, in case I missed any roots. Dock seeds can also remain viable in the soil for an incredible 60 years. I'm never getting rid of them.

[wiseheart]

One day the dratted weeds will take over the planet!

[badly_knitted]

I suspect they already have in a lot of places.

[wiseheart]

I managed to work a bit on my little stitched angel. She now only lacks one of her wings and four tiny stars decorating her gown. With a little luck I can finish the card tomorrow. Or the day after.

[badly_knitted]

Good luck! She sounds like she's coming along.

[yarnofariadne]

Finished row 86/119 on the baby blanket!

[badly_knitted]

Woooo! Well done! Only 33 to go!

[illariy]

Wohoo, great progress! Getting closer to the finish line :D

[m_findlow]

Still working on Christmas gift cross stitch number one, though making good progress. To do both in time I need to do each in just under two months and number one is close to three quarters done. Will give me time hopefully to add some backstitch because it feels like it needs it. It's the downside of some of these cheap kits not having any in the pattern and having to create some myself.
Does mean I've had to sacrifice other things like Spook_me, but I can't do both. :(

[badly_knitted]

We all do what we can manage without putting too much pressure on ourselves. Maybe you can do your spook_me idea another time. I signed up for 3 but I'm struggling to make headway on even one idea *shrugs*

Sounds like you're enjoying doing the cross stitch, so that's what matters. Good luck with getting both done for Christmas! You're making great progress =D

[m_findlow]

The Spook_me thing is a shame because I think it's my favourite fest. I've completed two of three past three years and loved writing scary horror stuff. I'm useless without a hard deadline which is why I never finished year before last. I'll come back to it someday.
I do have some idea what I wanted to write for grimoire but maybe I'll find some time over the Christmas break.

[badly_knitted]

If you feel like writing at all, you could always finish your unfinished fic and post that for this year. It's totally allowed.

I love the fest too, but I'm hating the fic I'm writing, lol! Just hoping I can pull it together because it looks like I won't have time to even start something for my other two monsters. I was going to combine them into one fic, but I'm so bogged down in the one I'm trying to write that I don't even have any ideas.

Good luck with the grimoire idea, I hope you manage to get it written at some point, even if it isn't for this year.

[m_findlow]

I will come back to both of them eventually. I just know I'll need a few weeks to write them. They need decent chunks of time which I don't have right now.
Hopefully you can find some mojo for your fic. I have my favourite spooky music playlists on Spotify to keep up the scare factor. :)

[badly_knitted]

One day, when you have more time and you're feeling more in the mood to write, you'll get them done.

I always need silence when writing, otherwise I get distracted =(

[wiseheart]

Sometimes you just have to set priorities, although I know it's hard. :(
Good luck with your Christmas gifts!

[m_findlow]

Thank you!

[malurette]

Scarf is going its slow but merry way; and this month's cleaning bingo asked of me to take care of clothing today so I mended a pair of pajamas--at this point, honestly, the bottom needed such a big patch that it would be quicker and possibly cheaper to just buy a new pair but I hate shopping for clothes and last time I went looking for pajamas I didn't find anything I liked anyway. So...

[badly_knitted]

Well done with the repair, hopefully they'll last you a bit longer now.

Also yay for scarf progress!

[fred_mouse]

Hanging out at a birthday party, I finished the 'last' row on the crochet blanket; decided that yes, I want to do a frill, failed to work out how I want the frill to look. On the drive home, had a moment of clarity about how I want to handle it. It will take more yarn, and I'll have to do a couple of attempts to see how it should look / get the count right, but I have plenty of yarn and I'd rather faff about for a bit and be happy with the final result than rush.

Frilling!

[badly_knitted]

It's great when the solution to a crafting conundrum magically pops into your head. Good luck with your frill, I hope it works out the way you want it too. =D

[illariy]

Love it when such a moment of clarity strikes. Yeah, you spent a lot of time on that project anyway, might as well get the frill just how you like it.