Check-In Post - January 1st 2025

[badly_knitted]

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!

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: If you're making any, what are your crafting resolutions for 2025?


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]

Apologies for the late post, I had intended to put it up earlier but I got one of those flashy light visual disturbance migraines, so it was cold, wet flannel over the eyes and resting in a dark room for an hour. All that's left now is a headache, but I caught it fast enough that it's not too bad.


Anyway, managed to knit 30 arm warmer rows while watching the WSM final, so at least I got my crafting year off to a reasonable start. How about everyone else?

[wiseheart]

Awww, poor you, that sounds awful! Glad to hear you're better now.

[badly_knitted]

I'm so lucky really, it was mild for a migraine.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Sorry about the migraines! But you still got some crafting done! Well done!

[badly_knitted]

Thanks! It wasn't a bad one, although the headache is lingering. I should get to bed, try to sleep it off.

[spiralicious]

Sorry about the migraine.

Well done on the arm warmer progress.

[badly_knitted]

Thanks. I was lucky it wasn't too bad.

[wiseheart]

I've worked a bit on my second doll during and after the New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, which was a great performance as always. I've figured out how to do the head accordingly to the video (well, more or less), and I've finished the arm bases for both dolls. I think this was a reasonable start, too.

[badly_knitted]

Well done! That sounds like excellent progress.

A really good concert is always a treat to listen to.

[spiralicious]

Excellent!

[bunn]

Happy New Year!

I've been scrolling past this community for so long, but today I do actually have an update to report! Each year I carve a Christmas decoration in the wood from the previous year's tree.

This year is going to be a larger one, because it's a full cross-section of the bottom of the trunk, which I'm kind of regretting because that is HARD wood and thick too. But I hacked away at it with my chisels while watching the Victoria miniseries, and I think I now have it the right shape and size, and can start refining the surfaces down to something I can carve a design on . I'm thinking of a water-pattern, maybe a wave on one side and a puffin on the other (my carvings are often a bit nontraditional for Christmas, I have several dragons two Green Men and a Neolithic Venus figure. But they are all pale wood, so they look Christmassy in the tree when lit by the lights!)

[badly_knitted]

Happy New Year! So pleased you decided to drop in. You don't have to have anything to report in order to join in, you know. You're still very welcome.

What a marvellous idea! I really like your plan for this year's ornament, I love puffins. (I also love dragons, of course. Who doesn't? Any chance of posting a picture of some of your previous ornaments?

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

That sounds like an amazing tradition! Welcome!

[spiralicious]

That sounds amazing

[yarnandglue]

Oh wow, making an ornament from the last year's tree is such a neat idea!

[jasleh]

Happy New Year!

[badly_knitted]

And to you!

[spiralicious]

Happy New Year!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Happy New Year!

With that superstition of whatever you do on Jan 1, you'll be doing the rest of the year, I did a collage which I'll post on Monday for Sherlock Holmes' birthday.

Not really a crafting resolution but I'd like to do Valentines for my happy mail list this year. If you'd like one (anywhere in the world), send me a DM with your address.

[badly_knitted]

Ooh, a Holmes collage! Looking forward to seeing a pic!


I hope it IS a superstition, because I don't want to battle migraines and an uncooperative computer for the whole year. On the other hand, I wrote, knitted, and posted, so that's fairly positive.

[spiralicious]

Looking forward to seeing the collage. You do such wonderful work.

I'd think that'd count as a crafting resolution.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you!

It's a short-term goal, which I will take! Who knows what the rest of the year will bring?

[spiralicious]

Indeed!

[althea_valara]

I sat down to work on the crocheted cardi I want to do this year, and soon found myself in a 3 hour nap. Le sigh. I know I'm still recovering from going HARD in December, but I do wish I could take shorter naps. I never can -- if I go down, I'm out for several hours.

Anyway! I neglected to share this yesterday -- December 2024 crafting update (and year in review in my journal.

Also, a list of things to work on or finish this year, which includes the list of FORTY-FOUR WIPs. Oof!

Dinner is in 30 minutes, might work on the swatch for the cardi now. Can knock out a few rows before we eat, at least.

[spiralicious]

*\o/*

[badly_knitted]

Well done with your December crafting, and that is a long list of things to do and to make! You're going to be busy this year!

[tielan]

I have gotten mooooost of the way through making a loose caftan dress. I'm not sure how much I'll wear it, and the seams are going to need ALL THE OVERLOCKING.

It's always the last bit that does me in, though. Currently, I am cursing pockets.

Otherwise, I am about to photograph a mort o' quilts for giving away in the coming couple of weeks!

[spiralicious]

Well done!

[badly_knitted]

Good luck with the overlocking, and the pockets. You can do it!

Oooh, more quilts! Yay!

[spiralicious]

I did culinary crafting today making what has become our regular New Year's dinner (it's a sort of hot salad of pork belly, shredded brussel sprouts, pomegranate seeds, and sometimes nuts, topped with balsamic vinegar and curls of Parmesan cheese). My mom really dressed the occasion up by putting out "table cloths" on our TV trays, getting out the nice glasses, nicely platting some leftovers we had for sides.

I was going to do the first day of an online fill the sketchbook challenge (it's laid back, not everyday), but I honestly forgot about it and it's getting really late. So maybe tomorrow.

[badly_knitted]

That sounds delicious!

Sometimes we just need to ease into a new year without putting too much stress on ourselves. Sketching can wait.

[spiralicious]

Thanks! I love it so much.

Very much so.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Congrats on your culinary craft. That sounds lovely!

[spiralicious]

Thanks!