Check-In Post November 23rd 2020

[falkner]

Hello, lovely crafters! Welcome to our daily check-in post, where you can tell everybody all about your most recent progress (or lack thereof). Feel free to also chat with other members and generally enjoy yourself!

Check-in is not compulsory, you decide if and when to take part in these posts.


And for an optional question, what about:

What time of the day do you usually work on your crafty projects?

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Comments

[yossi]

Hello y'all! I mostly draw, but sometimes I do cross stitch and am trying to get myself to actually learn how to operate my sewing machine properly. (I have made one (1) mask since the pandemic started, despite my resolution to Support The War Effort or whatever by making masks for people. Such is life with executive function problems, alas.) Currently I have two cross stitch projects in process - one is basically a shitpost and the other will eventually be a pillow (see also: I need to learn how to use my sewing machine), both for my partner rellephant. What can I say, they're cute and I can't resist making them cute things.

Once I tried to cross stitch a QR code for my wifi password but it was very very boring and then I accidentally stitched a black square that should have been white and I ragequit the project. My love for crafting is fickle and greatly dependent on how willing I am to focus on very tiny things for extended periods of time.

Anyway, hello! Happy to be here! *waves*

[falkner]

Welcome! For the purpose of this community, drawing totally counts :D

> Once I tried to cross stitch a QR code for my wifi password
This is pure genius!

[badly_knitted]

Welcome!

I also enjoy cross stitch, but I can't draw or sew to save my life *grins*

Hope you'll enjoy hanging out here!

[darkcedars]

Hello, and good luck with the sewing machine. I can't sew worth anything.

[froodle]

I love the idea of cross-stitched shitposts!

[m_findlow]

Oh I love the sheer madness of trying to cross stitch a QR code. You're like my evil genius hero! Ha ha.

[badly_knitted]

Great question! At present I'm very much an evening crafter. I stick in a DVD (re-watching Due South at present) and get knitting ;)

Obviously that means I haven't done any knitting yet today so I'll have to come back in a couple of hours to check-in.

[froodle]

Ooh, now I want to rewatch Due South!

[falkner]

I leave both writing and crafting for the evening/night, yet I'm very much a morning person... I do think at least for writing it does help a little, my inner editor is too tired! But for crochet and knitting... So many dropped stitches...

[nagi_schwarz]

I am just...barely getting back into crafting on the regular so I don't have a set time of day yet. Maybe in the evenings after Boo goes to bed. During D&D on Sundays is a safe bet because during battles I can craft while other people are rolling their attacks, and not a lot of note-taking is required.

I managed two rows on a the second tatted dragon wing, but I might have already muffed it up already and might need to scrap it and start again. It's supposed to be a mirror of the first wing, and I don't think I've accomplished that, but we shall see...

[darkcedars]

Probably easier to fly with symmetrical wings (thinking).

[badly_knitted]

Sometimes you just have to fit in crafting whenever.

Oh... I hope you don't have to undo the wing, it's so frustrating. Still, reversing a pattern can be tricky. I'm sure you'll figure it out.

[froodle]

I do somethings craft in the evenings after work, but my favourite time is early in the mornings on my days off - I get up, grab a shower, and settle back on the sofa with a cup of coffee that will inevitably go cold and a crumpled paper bag full of doll parts in my lap.

I might put on a podcast or an audiobook, or I might play one of those YouTube spooky soundscapes videos. I don't usually listen to music while I craft as I'm a subconscious bopper and I've been known to jiggle a project off my lap when I'm really enjoying a song!

[darkcedars]

a crumpled paper bag full of doll parts
spooky soundscapes

Watch out for a bunch of kids in a van with a Great Dane.

I watch a lot of waterfall and ocean but should look for spooky.

[falkner]

I usually put true crime documentaries in the background, I should try spooky ambient noises for a change!

[badly_knitted]

Nothing more relaxing than a bit of crafting.

I dance in my seat too, which does odd things to my typing as it's often when I'm replying to emails and comments.

[rellephant]

> I'm a subconscious bopper

mood I’m physically incapable of sitting still! I end up mostly crocheting in my rocking chair so I can hold still by being aggressively in motion.

[badly_knitted]

Checking in to report watching 2 epiodes of Due South.

Also knitted the rib and 20 rows of a sleeve.

[babs_bee]

I'm retired so I've been knitting in the afternoons while I watch Youtube videos or old episodes of TV shows I enjoy on Amazon Prime.

[badly_knitted]

It's an excellent and productive way to spend an afternoon. How is the knitting coming along?

[falkner]

You're living my ideal future life, to be honest. Any particular show you've been enjoying recently?

[darkcedars]

Often I craft in later afternoon or early evening. Not sure if I'll get any done today, but I did organize my stuff for starting MIL's headband.

[badly_knitted]

Organising what you need for a project is a important part of crafting. Now when you decide to make a start you won't have to go searching for anything!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Answer: I am definitely a nights-and-weekend person but the light is so much better in the morning. Alas!

1. I am still working on my Christmas gift cross stitch. And I learned over the weekend how to do French knots! Not as difficult as I was expecting. [See strawberries in the top right corner]



2. I used watercolor crayons to make 10 Christmas cards for the Holiday Cheer event organized by the Multi-Fandom Postcard Exchange.

[darkcedars]

I love the ladybug!

[m_findlow]

I'm very much a first thing in the morning person, especially for writing, but crafting is known to come about late at night as well. It's the middle of the day when I'm flat on all creative fronts.
I can happily craft in silence but if I'm stitching I usually put something on that I've watched a million times because I'm not actually watching it. My go to movie is You've got mail. Honestly I've seen that film about a hundred times. I've even been known to watch it twice in one stitching sitting! Rewatching The West Wing atm when I can find time. A pity real US politics don't take a leaf out of their book.

[yossi]

*pours one out*