Check-In Post - October 15th 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: Have you ever made something and then had no idea what to do with it?


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

[fred_mouse]

I'm reasonably sure I can get a baby pink and an off white in the right weight of acrylic at the local big box craft store. The trick will be getting only that!

[badly_knitted]

I am SO with you on that. I have a room crammed with yarn, but yesterday I bought 9 100g balls, each one a different colour, to make more arm warmers. I am crazy.

[fred_mouse]

never the right yarn for the project!

I have several boxes (I think) of yarn in storage; I really need to get in there and find out what is there, what I actually want (guess: less than half) and then get on to either rehoming or using it up. But 'work out what is in the craft/spare room' is an ongoing project, and at least I'm making progress.

[badly_knitted]

So true. I have plenty of DK but it's like 500g of a colour, enough to make myself a sweater or cardigan, so I don't want to use it for other things.

Good luck with locating and sorting all your yarn!

All my yarn was in a storage unit for almost 8 years I think. I got rid of a lot when I reclaimed it a few years after mum passed away, but there's still a huge amount. I need to get on with my first Aran project, but knitting arm warmers is good for when I'm watching the dancing on TV. I don't have to watch what I'm doing.

[fred_mouse]

Crochet squares is my 'not looking at my fingers' task, although I do get a bit of knitting done while watching things. It says something about how shot my attention is that I'm not making progress on the knitting project at any great rate.

[badly_knitted]

Maybe you'll catch up with the knitting when you're more in the mood for it. In the meantime, you have plenty of other things to keep your fingers busy.