Check-In Post - October 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: 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

[m_findlow]

I've finished the first of the two Japanese bird cross stitch designs slightly ahead of schedule.
Still haven't decided if it needs some backstitch, which might depend on how much time I have left once the second one is done. It's also the first kit where I ran out of some colours but luckily scrounged a few spare bits from other completed kits. Strange since they're usually so generous with the threads and I'm also pretty frugal with waste. Might come down to not having enough to do the backstitch. At a distance they don't look so bad, but I think the flower clusters need some more definition.
Still have to order the frames and hope they don't break the glass during delivery (our postal service always toss parcels around like they're all made of marshmallows). I should probably order them sooner rather than later in case I have to return broken ones.

[badly_knitted]

That's lovely! I can't imagine how many stitches there must be though. A lot of time and effort has gone into it, that's obvious, but the end result is worth it!

Our postal service is the same. I've had a smashed record delivered many years ago that had clearly been trodden on, judging by the boot print, and some plants that were squashed. So many other things broken or bent. I hope you receive your frames undamaged.

[wiseheart]

This is stunningly beautiful!

[spiralicious]

Beautiful!