Check-In Post - Aug 31st 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.

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This Week's Question: Share your favourite crafting tip, if you have one.


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Comments

[spiralicious]

Thanks!

It will most likely go in all by it's lonesome. I don't need magenta on everything, lol.

I figure the point of that project from the workbook's perspective was to:

1) practice making decreases and increases - done

2) learn a new lace knitting pattern - also done

3) learn the joining technique they want you to learn for attaching scarves that knitted in halves and joined in the middle - I already have a scarf where both halves are knitted that need to be joined in the middle that uses the same technique, so I will be learning that there.

4) how to felt a finished project in the washing machine - my yarn experiment will do that.

So as I see it, even if I never finish this particular scarf, I will have learned what the workbook wanted me to. If I decide not to finish it, what there is of the scarf will probably become some sort of wall hanging. I've got no clue what I'm going to do with the horrible yarn though, if it fails it's test.

[badly_knitted]

That might be wisest.

As long as you've learned what you were aiming to learn, that's what matters.

I'm assuming a grafting technique of some description for joining. It's a handy skill.

If the yarn is that bad, I'd just get rid of it. Lesson learned.

[spiralicious]

Yeah, it's a pretty pattern, so I will probably try the scarf again with a different yarn. Yarn should not be this crazy making.

Yup, it's a grafting technique. It sounded quite handy.

I've been coming up with non yarn use ideas for it like stuffing, Halloween decor, sabotaging the laundry of my enemies...

[badly_knitted]

So true. Yarn that doesn't cooperate does not deserve too be called yarn.

It is a very handy technique to learn. I use a form of grafting for shoulder seams, although I still cast off loosely first. Makes for neater seams.

All much better uses for it than knitting.

[spiralicious]

I have been calling it Steve.

[badly_knitted]

As good a name as any!