Check-In Post - November 28th 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, but... HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE!


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]

20 rows on the second of this pair of arm warmers.


I hope all my American friends are enjoying good food and good company.

[wiseheart]

Amen. Congrats to the progress, too.

[wiseheart]

Culinary crafting over here again: 3 new batches of cookies. I'm up to 17 different sorts now. Phew!

[badly_knitted]

Thank you!

[badly_knitted]

Wonderful!

[liveonthesun]

knit four rows of my scarf; cut out, pinned, and started stitching the interfacing for the waistband and button placket of my skirt!

also guided my 6yo through making a bandana for our cat, and we both made zines.

[liveonthesun]

what's been your favorite cookie so far? either to make or to eat (or both!)

[readera]

I did some culinary crafting as well. I made my usual chocolate chip cookies & new recipe pecan shortbread. They were both lovely.

[jasleh]

happy thanksgiving to those who celebrate! just got back from thanksgiving dinner where I participated in ordering my main christmas present lol (yarn for a crochet blanket I have planned)

[sister_raphael]

Well, $$$ later and it's back to my old journal name. The help guys couldn't fix it so options was to re-insert images manually or rename back.

In craft news, I've done 22 buttonholes by hand yesterday and today and am sewing the buttons on. I'll post a pic over the weekend when I do the last month's catch up posts.

[wiseheart]

Still the Ischler: almond biscuits with red currant jam filling and chocolate icing. They are not on the baking plan this year, though.

[wiseheart]

I can imagine!

[wiseheart]

Crafting with kiddies is always fun!

[wiseheart]

How annoying! But you chose the sensible solution.

[badly_knitted]

Wooo! You had a busy and crafty day! Your cat looks splendid in its new bandana.

Fun idea making the 'zines!

[badly_knitted]

Both sound yummy!

[badly_knitted]

Sounds like you had a good time!

What colour(s) will the blanket be?

[badly_knitted]

I'll get you changed back here as well. I'm glad reverting to your previous username got all the pictures back though. What a pain!

[sister_raphael]

Hooray for more armwarmer goodness!

[sister_raphael]

Your baking always sounds so delicious.

[sister_raphael]

it's never too young to get kids sewing!

[sister_raphael]

What really hurts is US$15 to change it and then another US$15 to change it back. AUD$46.17 that all cost me!!!!!! $46.17!!

[sister_raphael]

oooo blanket!

[sister_raphael]

Sensible but expensive. Money I don't really have right now, but I need to get all my online stuff looking neat and professional (to a point) so when I get new traffic from people who aren't friends and followers already, it'll look nice. Doing some big website adjustments again and that will be 100 pages of reloading to do.

[jasleh]

mostly black, with a variety of oranges and yellow, with a "copper" variegated border!

it's uh... sort of a meme blanket >.>;; charted it out and expanded it myself from a cross stitch I saw on tumblr (would insert a link, but not sure how to do that in a comment)

[liveonthesun]

congrats on the buttonholes!! i'm going to be tackling hand-sewn buttonholes for the first time soon, i'm excited.

[badly_knitted]

Thank you! They get used a lot in winter.

[badly_knitted]

Gah! That really is a pain, and an expense you could have done without. If you'd known what would happen, you wouldn't have changed it in the first place.

[badly_knitted]

I don't know how to do links in comments either, not so they look nice. Feel free just to stick the https web address in as is, if you want.

The colour combination sounds delicious! Orange and yellow look so good with black.

[jasleh]

fair enough!

the blanket's gonna be based on this: https://jasleh.tumblr.com/post/762699910685589504

because Ea Nasir is one of my favorite internet memes lol

[badly_knitted]

That looks like it will be a fun project!

[jasleh]

hope so! it's certainly perfect for mosaic crochet lol

very hype to start it, but that's also why I'm hoping to finish up this gift cross stitch before christmas XD

[badly_knitted]

There's still time! Hopefully you will get it finished by then.

[sister_raphael]

I have an online photo tutorial if you need help! It's here! (sorry for the late comment add. I've been trying to update a bunch of stuff) These are round, cloth buttons like little peas!

https://rosaliegilbert.com/tutorial_buttons.html

[liveonthesun]

thank you!!! i've stalled a bit on progress, so this will be very helpful when i get to it!