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!

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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

[badly_knitted]

I like to make sure I have everything together for a project before I start work on it, threads and fabric for cross stitch, yarn and the right needles for knitting, though it can take me several days to decide on the perfect pattern for the yarn I've got.

Cardmaking though is more random. I get out a bunch of stuff, start seeing what I can do with it, then spend half my time trying to find essential embellishments.

Just about to start my knitting, hopefully it'll warm me up a bit. So cold!

41 rows on my sleeve, and it did warm me up a bit!

[but_can_i_be_trusted]

I always forget what kinds of beads I have until I get to work, so I don't get to do much planning ahead of time. Once they're out, I fiddle until I get a pattern set.

[but_can_i_be_trusted]

As for any crafting today, I just now got done shaping some cloverleaf rolls for Thanksgiving dinner. They're sitting on the stove, rising.

[m_findlow]

Planning? What planning? There is only chaos here. I don't even plan my writing.
I think if I was it I something like patchwork I'd need to plan but most of my crafts are just see what happens.
I made two more cards last night and they were much better than the first bunch so I think I'm slowly getting back into the swing of it. Though I spent ages agonising over the first one trying to get the right combination of papers and ribbons together. I'm such a fusspot over the colours being even slightly off and not coordinating. :s

[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.

[froodle]

Once I actually start cutting and sewing, I like a project to be one-and-done, otherwise the beans have too much opportunity to go everywhere. So the taking random dolls out of the box, sorting them into piles,sorting them into different piles, putting them back in the box and taking the out again doesn't really look like I'm organising (and tbh,.sometimes I don't make anything and just enjoy looking at my beanies). Once I settle on an idea, though, everything gets laid out neatly in the order I'll use it.