Check-In Post - November 18th 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

[fred_mouse]

I found the start of the crochet arm warmers, and decided that I wasn't enjoying the project, and frogged it. That ball of yarn will go back in the stash (it is a lovely stiff cotton / bamboo yarn and wasn't really suitable, I just like the colour). Instead, I've started doing some knitted ones, and I've done cast on and six rows. It's quite a thick yarn, and while my knitting is a bit uneven, it is a good opportunity for practicing rib stitch, which I don't often do. It is a large ball of yarn I've picked to use up (some kind of 'super saver' option, possibly 200g) so if this works as something I can get done in a reasonable amount of time, then I'll probably make more. I suspect that at least some of the household will want to steal them.

I also picked up a small applique project from buy nothing, and am going to have a poke at that.

And! I went into the sewing room, and pottered around. I haven't achieved 'do something' but I did pull out some fabric scraps that are allocated to a specific project, and started thinking about how to make progress on that.

[spiralicious]

Sounds like time well spent :)

[badly_knitted]

Woohoo! Excellent progress! Cotton isn't ideal for arm warmers because of the stiffness. The yarn you're working with now sounds much cosier. I don't know whereabouts in the world you are, but if your weather is anything like mine, you might well find your arm warmers going missing as someone else decides to try them on.

Have fun with the applique and your other project!

[fred_mouse]

I'm in Western Australia - heading into first summer, although it is taking its sweet time about it (while the English imposed the four season year, there are six seasons identified by the First Nations people, which include what are translated as first summer and second summer).

[badly_knitted]

Nice! I could do with two summers... I'd just as soon skip winter entirely.