Check-In Post June 3rd 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]

12 pattern rows on my sleeve! Not a lot, but it's still progress.

[smallhobbit]

But that's the complicated bit because it's where you set the pattern.

[badly_knitted]

Exactly, and I mucked up the first row a bit and had to backtrack to fix it. Everything's set now though.

[darkcedars]

Oh, with the backtracking you did more! :)

[badly_knitted]

An extra half a row *grins*

[wiseheart]

Hey, progress is progress!

[badly_knitted]

This is true!

[smallhobbit]

I've started stitching some of the flower beds for my bandstand cross stitch. I also finished the first square for my throw, downloaded the pattern for the second square and decided which colours to use.

[darkcedars]

Looking great. Is that a gold or orange? I'm not quite sure on my phone.

[smallhobbit]

It's gold - by the time I've taken the photo on my phone and you're looking at it on yours it's no wonder that it's held to tell the colour.

[badly_knitted]

That's such a pretty design! Your throw is going to be gorgeous with the different patterns.

Also great progress with the cross stitch.

[smallhobbit]

Thank you. I'm thinking I shall repeat some of the patterns but change the colours, they're all shades of one or the other.

[badly_knitted]

That sounds like a brilliant idea!

[wiseheart]

Oh, this is beautiful!

[darkcedars]

Spent today cursing past-me for not weaving in the ends on an afghan very well. I washed the other baby blanket I'd made years ago (it had been in a tote) and a bunch popped out. Ha!

House inspection turned up that it needs a new roof immediately and there's something super weird with the sewer line. So we're waiting to see what the seller does.

[smallhobbit]

I regular curse past-me for various things, mostly when I've decided they weren't really important...

That doesn't sound too good.

[wiseheart]

I've learned the hard way that there aren't any non-important things in crafting. :/

[badly_knitted]

Oops, yes, those ends can be a problem. Hope you can tuck them away more successfully this time.

Eeep! Not the news you were hoping for...

[althea_valara]

I knit one row on the blanket.

Mostly, I prepared for house-sitting, which included packing projects. I leave tomorrow afternoon and will be gone over a week. Part of my preparations included checking tracking of a yarn shipment that's on its way to me. I must've checked it 544647 times, lol. I'm disappointed it's not going to arrive before I leave because it would have been fun to bring that project along as I'm eager to start it. That project will be this top:

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/rosenmalva

It'll be my first time crocheting with a linen blend and I'm looking forward to it. I've heard linen can be tough to use but softens considerably with washing.

Tomorrow morning I'm getting up early to help my sister with her garage sale. I'm going to attempt to sell some of the many hats I've made there. I know I won't get anything near what they're worth, but they've been cluttering my room (well, sitting in a laundry basket) for over a year now, and it would be nice to offload some and maybe get some money. We'll see!

[badly_knitted]

One row is still progress! Hopefully you'll get loads done on your packed projects while you're house-sitting.

The top looks very pretty. I've never knitted with a linen blend either, I'll be interested to hear how you get on with it.

Good luck with selling your hats!

[wiseheart]

I'm coming a bit late to the party because I'm useless at copy&pasting on my iPad mini. So I had to wait until I'm at my desktop PC again. *g*

One of the 8th-term-classes at the school where I used to work has invited me to their farewell ceremony, therefore I decided to make them a farewell gift. So I put the kiddie cooking book aside and started making little owls, based on these guys:



Of course, I won't have the time to sew them; making these took me half a year; so I decided to make a cardboard version, in the hope that I'll be able to finish them in the less than two weeks I've got until the actual event. Today, I cut out all the owl bases and the belly parts, and made a rough cut of the eyes. I'll glue these parts together before I'll start with the wings and the beaks.

Partially cross-posted to my LJ, so apologies to those who see this twice. *ducks*

[badly_knitted]

What a lovely idea! I hope your cardboard owls turn out well. The felt ones are so lovely!

[wiseheart]

Thank you. :) The cardboard ones will look strangely flat - I've only made this pattern from felt so far - but hopefully pretty nonetheless.

[badly_knitted]

I'm sure the kids will be delighted with them.