Check-In Post - January 9th 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

[badly_knitted]

Still no actual crafting, but I am debating whether to start knitting the Aran sweater I want to make, and which I have the yarn for, instead of dithering about over the Aran jacket, which I wanted to make first but can't because I have yet to get a replacement for the pattern I decided I didn't like.... Argh! This time of year I always struggle with decision making. My brain goes on strike.

[peaceful_sands]

Will you enjoy making the sweater or having it to use when you’ve finished? Is there part of it that you can work on while watching DoI as it’s almost that time again? In which case I’d say go for it and then you can peruse patterns for a jacket at your leisure and have it ready for when you’re done?

[badly_knitted]

I will enjoy making the sweater, I have some lovely pink Aran yarn for it, I just really wanted a jacket because I don't have one.


I can do ribbing while DoI is on, but not the cabling, so I'll have to knit more arm warmers, lol! I knitted arm warmers all through Strictly, and World's Strongest man, I have so many pairs to sew up... (Must check the start date for DoI).

[wiseheart]

Right, you definitely need more arm warmers to sew up. *g*
What is Dol, by the way?

[badly_knitted]

TV show Dancing on Ice, and I STILL haven't checked when it starts.

Sunday! Yikes, good thing I checked!

[wiseheart]

Still struggling with my monkey boy aka the rag doll. I've fixed the way too short neck today (or so I hope) and finished the arms. Currently I'm working on the sleeves of the T-shirt but am running into problems with every new task. Part of the problem is the botched-up pattern, of course, but the fact that I can't properly use a sewing machine doesn't help. Plus, the original poster of the YouTube video used a hot glue gun to fix a great many parts, which I refuse to do (not safe for small children), so I have to come up with my own ways to sew those same parts on, and my own ways depressingly often don't work. Today I had to de-attach the one arm two times until it looked at least marginally natural. *sigh*

[badly_knitted]

It's always tough figuring out how to do something on the first few attempts, especially if you need to do things differently to the original design. Definitely can't glue something that's meant for small children. Hopefully you'll figure out how to make it work.

[annofowlshire]

Just before NY I started a mitred square blanket. I've been knitting on it since. Getting back into a regular (but not necessarily daily) crafting practice is high on my list. My mental health requires it!

[badly_knitted]

Yay for getting back to crafting! Good to have you back here =D

Good luck on the blanket. How big is it going to be, do you think?

[annofowlshire]

I jumped into it without a solid plan, but at the moment I'm adding squares and getting a feel for the dimensions of the squares. Soon I need to math it out (and also map out the color patterning) for the rest of it. I'm thinking sofa blanket, so probably somewhere in the range the size for a single bed.

[badly_knitted]

That will be quite a lot of squares, but a cosy sofa blanket will be good to snuggle under while watching TV.

[jeweledeyes]

So I finally went back to embroidery today and I was so happy about it... and I made myself carsick? Has this ever happened to anyone? My inner ear has been bothering me lately, and I guess the fact that I was concentrating so hard... idk? Anyway, I was so carsick when I stopped that I vowed not to embroider again for another six months 🤣 Back to knitting since I don't have to look at what I'm doing to do that

[badly_knitted]

Oh, that is not fun! Ear problems throw everything off anyway. Better get that checked out.

At least you can knit.