Check-In Post - February 4th 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: Have you ever made a Valentine gift or card?


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]

December: ONE HUNDRED! HOURS! OF! CRAFTING!

January: lol crafting what's that?

Today, Feb 2nd: 2.5 hours on 4 different projects, one of which is an Emotional Support Chicken.

...am I back? I think I might be back!

— Althea Valara (posting on Bluesky)(altheavalara) February 2, 2025 at 9:04 PM

I've been alternating projects since I posted that. Status:

* Mosaic Cardi: lower back done, about to chain for sleeves
* ES Chicken: on last point of first half of tail
* Sweetheart Soiree doily: on round 9
* Legwarmers: nope, were coming out too big; cast on a smaller amount of stitches but haven't knit the round yet

My goals for this month are ambitious. I don't expect to finish the cardi, it's too big of a project. But I'd like to finish the chicken and doily, and get one legwarmer done. That feels like a lot given that work started up again plus it's a shorter month, but I'll do my best!

The legwarmers are a direct result of going to a Final Fantasy concert; I wore a skirt and took public transportation on a colder day, and my legs got cold. I'm getting more partial to long skirts as I get older, but they do leave me with cold legs! And of course, why buy tights when I can KNIT SOMETHING instead?!?!

[badly_knitted]

That's great progress, even if the leg warmers are giving you some trouble. I'm sure you'll figure it out.

Having a variety of projects to work on is always a good idea.

[nagi_schwarz]

Welcome back to crafting!

Also I totally feel that on your leg warmers. Every time my arms get cold I think to myself that I should finish my sweater scarf…

[wiseheart]

Goodness me, you don't do things by halves, do you?