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

[badly_knitted]

Three more dock roots extracted!


I have sewn up a pair of arm warmers for my neighbour's daughter, and finished knitting the second of a pair for myself, so I still have three pairs to sew up =/ I can't win, Lol!

[illariy]

Am on my phone so a quick update: did 20 min of mending today, mended my old duvet cover and then put it on. I am not confident it is going to hold up for long but at least I tried.

List of my Saturday purchases hopefully coming soon. My extra cardigan yarn also came in today along with a book on crocheting socks. The yarn is the same lot as the earlier purchases just like I asked for, yay! Plan B would have been to make the cardigan slightly smaller and crochet a border with the second purchase. I realised I should have gotten enough yarn for some wiggle room. Hopefully it is enough now.

[wiseheart]

I had a very frustrating morning but worked a bit on Christmas card #34 anyway. It's a relatively straightforward pattern, without any vectors and swirls: a pretty little church. However, I have the vague suspicion that I've messed up the pre-prickling in several places, so I will have to do a lot of damage control in order for the card to turn out acceptable. *sigh*

[fred_mouse]

I have progressed the pink, white and brown blanket to the point that I need to find more yarn; I did not have quite as much as I thought, but I succeeded at yarn chicken. I've made a tiny bit of progress on the arm warmers, but I think I'm going to have to frog them, because the yarn is too stiff - the rib isn't really being rib. And I've gone through the box of crochet squares, pulled out all the incomplete ones, and started completing them. I've done one and a bit; I'm not sure how many there are altogether.

I also spent a bit of time in the garden - cleared about one square metre of path, including discovering that it is in fact six bricks wide, not five, because the garden has been encroaching! That bit of clearing half filled the wheelbarrow, and I did not get to the bit of path I had been planning to clear.