Check-In Post - May 7th 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: Do you change crafts with the season or stick to the same crafts year round?


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[althea_valara]

One row on the cardi, and about 20 minutes on Alphi so far. It's only 3pm here so I might work on Alphi some more today.

[badly_knitted]

Well done with continuing the bigger project. Hope you're enjoying working on your doll!

[darkcedars]

Good luck making more progress on that.

[nagi_schwarz]

Oooh, tell me more about Alphi! And kudos for progress on the cardigan!

[althea_valara]

Gonna be a doll of Alphinaud Leveilleur from Final Fantasy XIV, probably in his Endwalker / Sage outfit. I've made his identical twin sister Alisaie a few years back; it was before Endwalker was even announced so she's in her Shadowbringers outfit:





Her hair is not quite right but TBH, it looks pretty damned good considering hair is HARD TO DO. Definitely gets the feel of her haircut down!

Not worried about making the doll itself; this is my own pattern and I've knit it a dozen times, at least. His clothing is going to be another story. I'll do the best I can, though I'm sure I will have to leave out details. Still, it's going to be really fun to work on this, and I found some blue fingering acrylic in my stash that's gonna work perfectly for his coat.

[nagi_schwarz]

That doll is adorable! And yes hair is so hard 😭

Kudos to you for designing your own patterns! I’m not nearly good enough at knitting for that. I look forward to seeing the finished Alphi!

[althea_valara]

I've been knitting and crocheting since 2007, so I've been exposed to a lot of techniques. Here's a secret: my doll pattern is just a Frankenstein of things I learned from other patterns. The crown of the head is from a hat pattern. Shoulders/arms are a basic raglan. Feet are basic cuff-down socks, just on a smaller amount of stitches. True, I did have to figure out how to put all these pieces together, but it wasn't too difficult. I'm also not opposed to looking up free patterns for inspiration/techniques - another doll I made wears a pleated tunic that's made bottom up, and I had never done a bottom-up raglan before so I had to read up on it. Pretty sure I used a DROPS pattern as a guide.

[nagi_schwarz]

That's really cool! I'm good enough at crocheting to engineer stuff on my own, but not at knitting, not yet...