Check-In Post - December 21st 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: What's on your holiday wish list this year?


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

[althea_valara]

SO MUCH CRAFTING AND CLEANING. Pretty much all I did today, though I did take a break for a short stream tonight, doing the holiday event in Final Fantasy XIV. But we're here to talk about crafting! I switched gears from mom's poinsettia because I determined there was no way to get it done before Christmas, so I'll try to finish it by our party on the 29th. Instead, today I worked on one of the wall hangings. I've got just 12 rows left, and am going to try to finish those now.

There's a lot of ends to weave in, and I've got plans to line the wall hanging with fleece (that I got on say super cheap). So I spent some time doing web searches for best practices for that. My wall hanging is just in a big box craft store brand 100% acrylic, so I'm not sure a wet block will help. Usually, I "block" acrylic by throwing it in the wash/dryer, but I'm a little worried about this one due to all the ends. I'll decide. I am definitely going to pre-wash the fabric.

I had bought some pre-cut dowels for the hangings, but the dowels are slightly too short. :( so I'm going to need to get longer dowels and cut them myself. This means that mom will likely see me walk in with a dowel, and might guess at what I'm making, which displeases me somewhat. But it can't be helped. At least she won't be able to guess what the final result looks like?

[badly_knitted]

Good luck with the blocking, and sneaking the longer dowels in without your mum seeing them. Hiding things from people you live with can be really tricky.

Also hope you manage to finish the poinsettia by the 29th. That would be a fun surprise for your mom.