Check-In Post - January 8th 2025

[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: 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

[althea_valara]

I had a lazy day, which I think I needed because I tweaked something in my back/shoulder area and am having pain. Mom wanted to go to the gym this morning, and I did, but I couldn't do much because of whatever I did to my back. I ended up napping after lunch, too, and since then I've mostly just been sitting, browsing the Internet.

I did cast on 30 stitches and knit a few rows of garter, though. My knitting class starts up again tomorrow and there's two people signed up for it, yay! I know the one - this will be her third set of classes with me. The other I'm not sure who they are, so I am going in prepared to be teaching a brand new beginner. I learned during my first session that starting from the cast-on is NOT a good idea for a new knitter, even though that's how I learned, so I will have them continue on from the garter I knitted.

I told the class organizer that I have some interest in a crochet class, so it sounds like we're going to do that in the spring session. Maybe a combined knitting/crochet class? not sure yet. But I've been browsing tutorials, etc. I would like to have resources to point new crocheters to, and I know there's TONS of videos out there, but I don't know one good central source that I trust like knittinghelp.com - so more searching to do! But I am open to suggestions if anyone knows any good crochet sites (besides PlanetJune.com, which I already plan on linking to).

[fred_mouse]

Oh, no on your back. I hope you have some stretches that help, and that rest and recuperate works.

I'll have a look through my crochet links, but I suspect everything I have is one off links for specific approaches and projects, rather than more comprehensive sites, because I learned to crochet pre-internet.

[spiralicious]

Hope your back feels better soon.

Good luck with your class.

[badly_knitted]

Ouch! Hope your shoulder / back problem clears up quickly! That's something you can do without.

Good luck with the knitting class! And the crochet class if that goes ahead.