Check-In Post - January 17th 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]

Seller asked me to allow a few more days in case the recent weather caused delays. Then if the pattern isn't here by early next week, they'll give a refund. That sounds fair.


In other news... more writing, and I'm going to get back to the ficathon in a few minutes, after I check my emails.

[wiseheart]

Wishing you luck!

[badly_knitted]

Thanks. I'm not hopeful, but the weather WAS pretty bad in a lot of places.

[illariy]

Hope your pattern finally arrives at the start of next week and good luck with the ficathon!

[badly_knitted]

Thank you, it would be nice...

I think I've already written at least 30 ficathon fills. It's almost TOO much fun!

[nagi_schwarz]

Wishing you luck on both writing and the pattern arriving soon!

[badly_knitted]

Thanks! The writing is going well, if nothing else is. The ficathon is so much fun!

[yarnandglue]

I completed the first shelf of my 2025 temperature tracking project!
https://yarnandglue.dreamwidth.org/2529.html

[badly_knitted]

Great start!

[yarnandglue]

Thank you!

[illariy]

Ooooh, that looks so pleasing to my eye! Very good idea about varying the height of the books slightly. :D

[nagi_schwarz]

That is awesome! Looking good!

[illariy]

Finally wrote a letter and calculated the amount of decorated envelopes I have left and the number of letters I have waiting for a reply. Both are 6, which pleases me immensely. Those should last me until lectures finish and I can decorate more. So happy about that!

[badly_knitted]

Yay! It's nice when you have just enough =)

[illariy]

It was indeed very satisfying but I still added more pre-decorated envelopes today in a rather spontaneous burst of crafting.

I wouldn't mind another burst of crafting tomorrow but only if like today it does not affect my to do list tasks, hehe.

[badly_knitted]

You are so very organised keeping up with your to do list. I hope you have time tomorrow for some spontaneous fun as well.

[nagi_schwarz]

That is quite serendipitous for the amount of letters and envelopes to line up so! My pen-pal wrote me a while back and I still need to reply but the whole family has been under the weather and I just haven't had the mental energy...

[nagi_schwarz]

Tatted a bit today but am almost out of thread on the bobbins so I need to reload. Also I crocheted a bit. Since I'm using scrap yarn it's a bit hit or miss, whether the current ball of yarn will make it to the end of a row, so I'm gambling a bit, but these days crocheting is just about all I have mental energy for. No writing is happening, not even letters to pen-pals. Sorry, pen pal!

[badly_knitted]

At least you're managing a bit of relaxing crafting!

Good luck playing yarn chicken, hope you finish the row before you run out.

[sister_raphael]

Finished the surcote but now seriously thinking of embroidering a row of bands onto it which will be time consuming.

Started a new kirtle while I thought about it.

[badly_knitted]

You do love adding a few extra touches, don't you? *grins* (Remembering your rose patterned wall hangings).

[malurette]

My new sample is done! Now I'll have to throw it in with the next laundry batch to see how the yarn holds up in the wash? It's my first time knitting with a nice merino wool and I'm not sure how it'll behave.

[badly_knitted]

Ooh, be careful! Non bio detergent, you don't want it shrinking in the wash! I had that happen with a sweater I made for my late mother. After washing, it would have fitted maybe an 8-year-old. I didn't even realise it was partly mohair yarn.

[fred_mouse]

Nothing yesterday, because I grabbed a crochet project to take with me to the convention I'm attending, only to discover there is no crochet hook in that bag. Collected a crochet hook over night, got to the convention and I have no idea what I did with the project bag, but it wasn't there. However, I'd also taken a ball of yarn to make a water bottle carrier (I was not comfortable with a glass bottle being carried around willy-nilly), and got that made over the course of several hours. I have a photo, it is kinda cute.

[badly_knitted]

Argh! What a nuisance for you! But at least you had the other yarn. Looking forward to seeing the picture of your bottle carrier!

[fred_mouse]

I find it so hard to sit and listen without something do to with my hands!

[badly_knitted]

I'm like that with TV, got to DO something, can't just watch. ♥

[yarnandglue]

Thank you! I'm still debating if I also want to backstitch the books but I think the varied heights are good enough for now. :)

[yarnandglue]

Thank you!