Check-In Post May 20th 2021

[badly_knitted]

Hello to all members, 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.


Today's Question: No question today.


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

[smallhobbit]

Today I went to a Dare to Dabble class and made paper flowers. I will post a link once I've written my blog post with the pictures.

[badly_knitted]

Woohoo! Glad you get to go and dabble again.

[smallhobbit]

Thank you.

[badly_knitted]

Only another 8 rows on my sweater, but I'm up to the neck shaping now, I'll start that hopefully tomorrow.

[smallhobbit]

Hooray. That didn't take very long.

[badly_knitted]

I can knit a lot faster, I just have a lot of other things I want to do, like online jigsaw puzzles. The ones I like at the moment take a long time to do, but I'm addicted. I can't resist them =/

[annofowlshire]

Lots done on the crewel work kit. Need to start thinking about ordering the next one... XD

A couple of years ago when I was peering over the edge of the rabbit hole of hand embroidery (when I get into something, I don’t do it halfway and so I choose my rabbit holes carefully), I was toying with the idea of the Royal School of Needlework’s certificate/diploma course. After a discussion, Mr and I agreed that the logistics at the time were too problematic. (The nearest location was still quite a commute, we had a small child who would need childcare, and we were pretty bent on moving away from London in the next couple of years and didn’t know where we’d end up...) Then my husband’s work contract ended and we knew it was about time to do the move we’d been planning, and there was a pandemic and who had time for anything? So I set that particular rabbit hole dream aside for the time. But it didn’t leave me.

I was looking at their website yesterday at their non-certificate (currently online) day courses, and something caught my eye—the certificate/diploma program can now be done online! I did the math on tuition, and realized it would be very easy to spend that much money on it as a keen hobbyist in the same time frame and not have professional tutoring and a qualification at the end XD (Something I know of myself from my knitting rabbit hole...)

So I brought it up again to the Mr, who was very supportive now that the logistics are less of an issue. (Enting is already in chlidcare and will start school in a year and some change, I can do it online, around my day job, and maybe do the Bristol satellite once and a while, and I have my own disposable income to sink into it...)

I want to get a couple of big things happening this year off my plate first (like getting my Settled status in the UK and my driver’s licence) and do a bit more research on the program, but I’m definitely keen to jump down the rabbit hole. Embroidery has been start and stop for me due to life issues, but every time I do pick it up, it feels like it’s the rabbit hole I’ve been looking for XD

[badly_knitted]

How exciting! It's great when you can do a course on something you're really enthusiastic about, so I hope it won't be too long before you'll be able to jump down that particular rabbit hole and see where it takes you!