Check-In Post May 23rd 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

[annofowlshire]

Oops. Can’t edit out all of my typos now XD I need to post after my morning tea...

I tend to research a topic to death, but I can’t really understand it until I start doing it, and then suddenly all that has context.

I’m a deep ender, too XD This is a much more reserved method of exploration than I usually do, I think in part because when I’ve tried to get into embroidery before I had too much trouble on the deep end* and eventually gave it up even though I really loved doing it. So I thought I’d ease in more gently on this attempt.

(*Grandiose ideas such as “I will create my own designs and practice that way!” and then get stymied on the design and the stitch choices and then it just became Too Much for an already quite full stage of my life.)

[badly_knitted]

Theory as opposed to actual practice *nods*

With knitting, I've always picked a pattern I liked, then figured out how to actually do the stitches as I went. I think embroidery is rather more complex than knitting.

I did design a couple of baby outfits from scratch, and I designed Pierrot motifs for the front, back, and sleeves of a sweater I knitted for myself. The idea came in a dream.

[annofowlshire]

Yeah, I tend to learn as I go with knitting, and I never swatch XD I’ve made some pretty wonky things along the way!

I don’t think embroidery has to be more complex, but I’ve certainly managed to make it be!

[badly_knitted]

I never do test swatches either, and I don't block and press. I've had the occasional disaster, but for the most part things have turned out wearable.

Embroidery looks wonderful when it's done right, but I pull threads too tight and I get impatient. Somtimes complex is more fun than simple.