Check-In Post - February 28th 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: What kind of crafting supplies can you never resist buying?


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[badly_knitted]

16 decrease rows on the sleeve! It's coming along well. Still got at least the same again to do before this sleeve is finished though.

[althea_valara]

Progress, yay!

[badly_knitted]

Nearing the end of the first sleeve! Still another sleeve and both fronts to knit, but I'll get it done. Just not in time to wear it this winter.

[wiseheart]

Don't be so sure about that, considering how insane the weather patterns have become lately.

[badly_knitted]

True. I won't get to wear it before the winter ends, but I might need it this summer...

[nagi_schwarz]

Excellent progress! Way to go!

[badly_knitted]

Thank you!

[peaceful_sands]

Flying through it now - it’ll be done before you know it

[badly_knitted]

Hopefully... and then onto sleeve two...

[althea_valara]

It is the last day of the month which means round 1 of Nerdopolis is ending and I am going OH SHIT MY PROJECTS!!! I didn't get done any of the ones I planned! Instead, I knocked out some quick ones:

* a chicken coaster, for the Sidekicks and Pets challenge
* a small heart-shaped doily, for the Hearts challenge
* currently working on a carnation, for the Houseplants challenge, in between bits of work

I need to finish the carnation by midnight GMT, but that should be easily doable. I'm doing 16 stitches after about 15-20 minutes of actual work.

My shoulder is improving. No more pain, but I do have numbness in the arm. I saw a doctor who said it's coming from my neck and is NOT permanent. I start PT for it in mid-March. They had an opening for today, but I couldn't take it because of work, alas. So I have to wait a bit.

[badly_knitted]

Well done with your small projects, the carnation sounds pretty so I hope it's done in time.

Glad you're not in pain now, but how annoying you couldn't take the PT appointment today and will have t when o wait. Still, I guess a couple of weeks to wait isn't as bad as it could be. I hope the PT will help.

[althea_valara]

Carnation was indeed done in time! \o/ Pictures forthcoming when I do my usual monthly round-up post.

[badly_knitted]

Yay! Congratulations! It doesn't help that February is such a short month, of course. If you'd had a couple more days, you wouldn't have had to rush so much.

[wiseheart]

It is sad that you had to set your projects on the back burner, but your health is more important. Very brave of you to knock out some quick ones, despite everything.

[althea_valara]

I don't think it's sad! This happens nearly EVERY MONTH with Nerdopolis: I get these grand plans to make several medium-sized projects but then time gets away from me and I end up scrambling at the last minute to bang out something small. It's such a recurring theme that I can't help but laugh at myself now.

[wiseheart]

Oh, I see. It is good then.

[nagi_schwarz]

Wow! So many fun cool projects! I love what you've picked for each theme. Glad the shoulder is improving and that you have PT coming up! I hope it helps a lot.

[peaceful_sands]

Shame you weren’t able to work on what you had planned but well done on the alternative achievements. Good luck with the PT and I hope you recover quickly

[wiseheart]

I made two more lavender sachets. I'm up to 9 finished pieces now, only one of which is filled. But my current goal is to have enough sachets for the time when the lavender harvest comes. *g*

[badly_knitted]

That's great progress! And a sensible goal. Making the sachets is the time-consuming part. If they're ready, you can just tuck them away until you have dried lavender to fill them with. I'm thinking of buying a lavender plant this year. We used to have one, but it died years ago. Time for a new one.

[wiseheart]

That is the basic idea, yes. I envy you for (possibly) growing your own lavender, soon.

[badly_knitted]

It would be nice to, now I have some ground clear where I could actually have a plant...

[nagi_schwarz]

Oooh nice! Look at you go! Do you grow your own lavender?

[wiseheart]

Nah. I’d like to, but I live on 53 square metres of concrete in a monstrous ten-storey block of flats, so no gardening is possible. Besides I have the dead thumb. Not even potted plants survive around me long.

[peaceful_sands]

Well done, you’re making great progress

[buttonsbeadslace]

My current knitting project is a pair of arm-warmers, and I'm about three inches of ribbing away from finishing the second one. I got a lot of work done at a local craft meetup recently. I'm very proud that I'm avoiding the "second sock syndrome" on these!

[badly_knitted]

Well done, you should soon have the second one finished! Arm warmers are one thing you can never have too many of... *side-eyes the 8 pairs I have yet to sew up*

[nagi_schwarz]

Way to go! You're doing awesome.

I am...unaware of "second sock syndrome", but maybe it's because I've never made socks...

[wiseheart]

I was wondering about that myself.

[buttonsbeadslace]

Oh, I think I picked up that phrase from someone I follow on Tumblr. The idea is, sometimes after you've completed the first sock of the pair, doing the same thing all over again seems less exciting than moving on to some new project. So you end up with a single un-paired sock lying around for an unreasonable amount of time, before you finally get around to finishing the second one. (This has definitely happened to me before)

[peaceful_sands]

Well done

[fred_mouse]

I picked up the knitting project that I'm doing for a friend and did two rows (as much as I can deal with with the yarn before I start getting sore from the friction on my fingers) and I've made good progress on the cream/pink/brown blanket - halfway through row two of six for the chosen border, and I have so much yarn left that I know I'm not playing yarn chicken.

[nagi_schwarz]

Way to go with the knitting!

I've never thought of it as playing yarn chicken but that is indeed what it is and I love that turn of phrase. I am glad you don't have to play it for your current project though!

[fred_mouse]

For reasons that I don't remember, I ended up with a bag of mill ends that are the border, and thus I have far more yarn than is needed for the project! The only other time this has happened to me that I remember is when I calculated on 25g balls, and bought 50g balls.

[badly_knitted]

Some yarns are just really uncomfortable to work with. Sorry you're having to deal with one like that.

Great progress on the blanket, and yay for not playing yarn chicken!

[fred_mouse]

It's a surprisingly bitey yarn. But lovely to stroke ones hands over, if one likes plush/velvetty feels. I can see why the person who started it picked it, and possibly why it was an unfinished object!

[badly_knitted]

Hopefully you can finish it and it can return to its dormant, velvety state. Clearly it resents being worked with, so kit bites. *nods*

[wiseheart]

Your poor fingers! That must be unpleasant.

[peaceful_sands]

Well done on your progress and sorry to hear this project is so uncomfortable to work on.

[nagi_schwarz]

I finished the stuffed bunny! https://www.instagram.com/p/DGpFqACsCj1/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

And now on to the next project...

[badly_knitted]

Aww! Bunny is so adorable!

[wiseheart]

Oooh, the bunny is so cute!

What is the next project?

[nagi_schwarz]

I think it'll be a lace bookmark for my mother, followed by a lace headband for a friend.

[peaceful_sands]

What a lovely bunny!

[nagi_schwarz]

Thank you!

[peaceful_sands]

Passed the halfway mark on the rug.

[badly_knitted]

Congratulations! You're doing great.