Check-In Post November 24th 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.


Today's optional question:

How much planning do you put in your projects? Do you immediately get started when inspiration strikes? Or you do meticulously plan everything in advance instead?

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Comments

[shopfront]

About as much planning as goes into maintaining a Ravelry account's projects/queue/favourites page and comparing my LYS's online stock to whatever yarn is called for to work out how many options I have that might suit a given project. I rarely get started straight away though, I have about 9 things in my queue right now that I have the yarn ready and waiting for plus two WIP projects and I prefer knowing I'm not likely to run out of planned projects anytime soon so I'll continue adding to that as I finish things.

Haven't been checking in regularly but I've been plugging away at my Christmas scarf which I started when badly_knitted was doing the posts. I had to stop and frog about a quarter or so of a scarf though when it became obvious (once I got a bit further into a non-colourwork bit and could compare widths) that my tension/gauge was terrible for the starting colourwork. I've had a much better second go of it though, went up another needle size and paid more attention to not pulling my strands too tight and it's muuuuch better so I'm feeling pleased about that.

[badly_knitted]

Yay for a more successul second attempt, and what a great idea to us a slightly larger needle for the colourwork sections. That would never have occurred to me! I'll try that next time I'm doing anything that requires more than one colour for a border.

[shopfront]

It's worked pretty well! Still not exact, but close enough that I think blocking should definitely sort it now or at least take it into 'only I'm going to notice the difference' territory haha. I can't take credit though, the original pattern suggested some people might need slightly bigger needles for colourwork. I've just bumped the difference in needle size even further.

[badly_knitted]

That's good to hear. You've found the size that works for you, I guess everyone's different.