Check-In Post - January 10th 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 crafting, I'm sort of waiting for the new pattern to arrive before I decide what to do. But Dancing on Ice starts on Sunday, so there will no doubt be more arm warmer knitting then.

[wiseheart]

That's a good thing, if you want to reach the 200 layers to make your arms look like those of the world's strongest men. *g*

[badly_knitted]

*grins* The warmer alternative to having muscles.

[wiseheart]

I've decided to take a crafting break before frustration would overwhelm me and do some necessary tasks instead. This resulted in the sorting out of six whole sleeves in my booking cabinet; mostly old hand-scripted stuff and research results that are no longer needed.

[badly_knitted]

Well done with the de-cluttering!

We all need a break from crafting sometimes.

[retrowaverecluse]

nice to meet you all, im new to the group and new to crochet

im currently working on a triangle shawl with shell stitch, but im also eyeing a pattern for a scarf. but before i start something else thats going to take me several several days, im reading a pattern for a hat/hair net/snood, something i can finish quicker and will help me get used to making looser structures than ive been doing thus far

[bunn]

Hello! That sounds like some excellent plans. Is the triangle scarf your first project?

[retrowaverecluse]

i completed a shawl from hexagons and two christmas stockings before this, during december, and these were my firsts. its not my first time attempting to learn but its the first time ive got over the learning curve, and ive been surprisingly motivated since then!

[badly_knitted]

Hello and welcome, good to meet you!

Congratulations on embarking on crochet! I'm not very good at it personally, but there are a few crocheters here. The shawl sounds lovely. Good luck with your quicker project once you get that underway. I hope you'll share pictures of your creative endeavours. We all like to see and admire each other's projects.

[retrowaverecluse]

thanks, i will do as i get better photos ^_^ i did get my new ravelry account on my profile, save people sifting through the sitreps on my dw.

i remain amazed at those who understand knitting, it truly looks like magic! but my wife has tentative plans to learn to knit this year, and im really excited to see what she can make

[badly_knitted]

Yay!

I have a Ravelry account, but I lost my login details years ago so I've never actually used it *headdesk* One of these years I should remedy that somehow.

I'm kind of similar with crochet. I can do some basic stuff, but it baffles me. Knitting makes a lot more sense to me. Brains are weird, everyone's is wired differently so that what seems straightforward to one person can be a complete mystery to the next.

Good luck to your wife in learning to knit. Any questions, I'm sure there are plenty of us here who would be happy to answer them.

[retrowaverecluse]

this got to me to check if the rav link on my profile was working (it was not.) - so thats fixed now

this is my third attempt to learn and the only one thats worked, probably due to the deep difference between 'wanting to know' and 'wanting to learn'. but i agree with yoy on the differing brains

[badly_knitted]

Glad you got that sorted. It's always a good idea to check links.

Just goes to show persistence pays off, and if you really want to do something, you'll figure it out.

If everyone was the same, a lot of things would never have been invented / discovered.

[bunn]

I finished my Christmas decoration wood carving! I went for a design of a puffin on one side, and a sea-sunset on the other. I'm glad I've got it done early this year.

I'm hoping to do some more woodcarving this year, and my goal is to get the next project done before May, when my OH's birthday is, it's a project I'm hoping to give as a gift.

[badly_knitted]

It sounds brilliant, yay for puffin!

Good luck with your next project, I hope you get it finished in time.