Check-In Post May 30th 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

[badly_knitted]

18 sleeve rows, now I just have the shaping at the top of the sleeve to do, which should be 8 rows. Almost done with sleeve 1, yay!

[smallhobbit]

That's brilliant!

[smallhobbit]

I've done a few more rows of my knitted square. I don't have the right sized needles, so am using slightly larger, but since it's for a throw it just means the final throw will be bigger. And the size will also be determined by how many squares I want to knit.

And I've cross stitched some of the grass round the bandstand.

[wiseheart]

Wow, you've been busy today! I really need to re-learn knitting. A throw like that must be great fun to make.

[wiseheart]

Go you!

[wiseheart]

I've realized that my little felt chef would never stay fixed on the cooking book, so I redesigned the front cover. A coloured paper version of the little chef will be glued onto the cover, while the felt one will get a little pocket inside, from which it can peek out at his heart's delight.

[alafaye]

Woo!

[alafaye]

Nice \o/

[alafaye]

That sounds adorable

[alafaye]

Been working some OT lately so I haven't had much time for anything (although because work has been slow I'm writing fanfic again! First time in over 3 years!), but today with the holiday weekend I finally got time to play around with some water color pencils and oil pastels -- trying a different medium. I definitely love the pencils; I'm gonna have to save up for the bigger packs.

[wiseheart]

Yay for rediscovering fanfic! In which fandom do you write?
Also, trying out a new medium is always fun.

[smallhobbit]

There's a knitalong with a new square every week which I'm planning on following.

[smallhobbit]

Thank you.

[smallhobbit]

What s lovely idea!

[smallhobbit]

I've heard good things about water colour pencils.

[badly_knitted]

Thanks! I'm amazed I got so far with the sleeve so fast!

[badly_knitted]

That's the great thing about making throws and blankets; you can just work with what you've got and they'll still work out fine.

Yay for more cross stitching!

[badly_knitted]

Awww, what a sweet idea, not to mention more practical. He can be sort of a little chef mascot.

[badly_knitted]

Yay for fanfic!

I haven't used watercolour pencils since I was a kid. I remember them being fun though.

[badly_knitted]

That's a cool idea. Will it be a different knitting stitch for each square?

[badly_knitted]

Thanks! I'm very happy with my progress.

[badly_knitted]

Thanks! One more sleeve and I can start putting the pieces together!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

I did a 1000 piece puzzle. This is Van Gogh's Bedroom at Arles.

[badly_knitted]

Ooh, the floor in that one looks difficult!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Yes, it was awful!