Check-In Post - November 11th 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: No question this week.


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]

The second arm warmer is finished, yay!


I now have 4 pairs waiting to be sewn up.

[wiseheart]

And I still have a quiet book to bind... *sigh*

[badly_knitted]

There's always something waiting to be finished.

[wiseheart]

Well, this one has been waiting for two frigging years, which is absolutely ridiculous! :(

[badly_knitted]

You'll get it done eventually, you're just busy with things for the fair at the moment.

[mrs_sweetpeach]

Hello! I just finished one cat bed and started the next. And yesterday I transformed two t-shirts into tarn.

[badly_knitted]

Ooh, busy busy! What is tarn? Not a term I'm familiar with.

[mrs_sweetpeach]

Tarn is T-shirt Yarn. This video shows the process although in my case I use a rotary cutter, I don't measure, and since the tarn is going inside of my crochet (I crochet around it) I don't care that I'm including logos or printing on the shirt.

[mrs_sweetpeach]

I knew I'd made a scrapbook page documenting my process but had a heck of a time locating it. I found it though, so here you go...

[badly_knitted]

Great stuff! Thank you for sharing =D

[wiseheart]

Intriguing! It's basically the same how source material for rag rugs is done, right? I remember in my childhood, back in the Stone Age, we always cut up clothing we could no longer wear for one reason or another and then a lady came with her loom and made rugs of them.

[mrs_sweetpeach]

Oh good grief, where's the youtube video?!

https://youtu.be/oqyhNDSXEfg

[badly_knitted]

I might try that at some point. Thanks for the video!

[badly_knitted]

Fascinating! Should be quite hard-wearing, I imagine.