Check-In Post June 9th 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.


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[badly_knitted]

Tonight's knitting has been a disaster. I'd done 12 rows before realising I had 3 extra stitches that were throwing the pattern off. I've unpicked 6 rows so far, one stitch at a time because fluffy yarn is so hard to undo, and I still haven't found the source of the extra stitches but I've had to give up for tonight. I'll continue the unpicking tomorrow.

[smallhobbit]

That's so frustrating! I hope you don't have to go too much further back.

[badly_knitted]

Probably back to where I started today, at the rate I'm going. Fluffy yarn takes forever to unpick. It can't just be ripped back a few rows because the fluff catches and will pull out stitches you don't want pulled. *sigh*

[wiseheart]

Oh, sorry to hear that! *hugs*

[badly_knitted]

Thanks. It's frustrating and annoying, but it's not the first time I've had to unpick on this sweater. I'll sort it out, somehow. I always do in the end.

[althea_valara]

Oh no! I hope you get it all sorted tomorrow. I've heard of folks freezing mohair yarn to get it to frog easier, but I've never tried it myself.

[badly_knitted]

With my luck it probably wouldn't work since it's just a cheap brushed DK I've had for 20 years or more.

Hopefully I can sort it out sometime today.

My owl project is finished

[wiseheart]

And, as promised, here are the pictures. Take a look at them on the front side:



And this is the back view, with the farewell messages for the kids:



Tomorrow I'll take a break, and then return to the kiddie cook-book project.

Re: My owl project is finished

[badly_knitted]

They are wonderful, every one unique! I'm sure the young recipients will be delighted with such thoughtful mementos.

Your handwriting is so much neater than mine. I'm envious! Even I can't read my writing most of the time.

Re: My owl project is finished

[wiseheart]

Actually, I do decorative writing better with a thin felt tip or a fountain pen. Acrylic pens are not the best medium for this, but the only ones that work properly on a dark background. When I make quick notes for myself with a ballpoint pen,well, that is something else...

Re: My owl project is finished

[badly_knitted]

I'm impressed that you can do decorative writing. I fail so badly with writing, never have been good at it. It's legible if I write individual letters, but script is just a random squiggle. Arthritis just makes it worse than it used to be.

Re: My owl project is finished

[wiseheart]

I guess it helps that I used to teach in lower primary for almost a decade. Writing vertically on the blackboard forced me to neaten up my handwriting.

Re: My owl project is finished

[badly_knitted]

I never thought about that. I mean I knew you were a teacher, it just never occurred to me that writing on a blackboard would influence the way you write.

Re: My owl project is finished

[wiseheart]

It doesm because the angle you are holding your hand is completely different.

Re: My owl project is finished

[badly_knitted]

Yes, I can see that now. =)

Re: My owl project is finished

[althea_valara]

*points to icon* well done! They are sure to be appreciated.

Re: My owl project is finished

[wiseheart]

That is a fantastic icon! Pardon the pun. Nine is my absolute favourite when it comes to the Doctors.

[althea_valara]

I missed yesterday's check-in because I was feeling blah. I did get 3.5 rows knitted, but that was it.

Today was really busy. No knitting so far, but I did some baking! Details in my journal, here: https://xnera.dreamwidth.org/1017106.html

I'm planning on knitting now but first I've got to get some protein in me to counteract the sweetness of the cookies.

[badly_knitted]

I hate blah days =(

Well done for getting some knitting done anyway. Hope you'll make some more progress when you've eaten.

[wiseheart]

Hey, baking requires a great deal of creativity, too! Especially if you can't hunt down all the ingredients listed in the original recipe. *voice of experience speaking here*

[m_findlow]

Sorry I've been absent so long. I haven't fallen off the face of the earth, just... real life and plenty of it. I was reading all the posts for a while but sadly have fallen terribly behind. Hope you have all been having good craft days.
Not much crafting happening here but I got some new papers for my birthday which I picked out on my one trip out into the world (felt so alien going to a shop but my paper trimmer needed new blades so it was deemed essential). They're all Australian birds and flora papers, but done in blues and blacks and pinks and reds. Just the three cards made from them so far. I bought a few other bits and bobs at the local $2 shop before we went back into lockdown as well - glittery hearts, some matching ribbon for my new papers and more stick on jewels. No plans for them yet but each time I go in there, they have new things and never the things from before so I've learnt to buy them when I see them.

[badly_knitted]

*waves* Glad you've managed to find a moment in the middle of all the busy real life stuff to drop by.

Your new papers and other things sound brilliant! I'm sure you'll find uses for them when you have time for more crafting. Definitely a good idea to get things when you see them. Stock runs out so fast, if you don't grab things you lose out.

Hope real life settles down for you soon and you get time to relax.

[m_findlow]

Me too. I'll try and post a few of them so you can see what the papers look like. Nice contemporary colours.

[badly_knitted]

I'll look forward to seeing them if you find the time for pictures.

[wiseheart]

Oh, man do I know the feeling! Not being able to do any online shopping, due to in-born stupidity, I always buy random stuff whenever I get near a craft shop (=read: once in two or three months). But the things always come in handy, even if I don't expect them to do so. ;)

[m_findlow]

Absolutely, you just never know when something you bought a million years ago is just perfect for what you need.
I have a habit of buying things and pulling them apart to use them a different way as well, for example I bought a sheet of sticky back disco ball glass that is one solid sheet, but if I run my craft knife between all the cuts in the glass, I now have a million little glass mirror squares to stick on cards in chequer patterns or little rows of diamonds. Those have already been used on quite a few cards for some added bling. That reminds me to go and raid mum's huge box of buttons. I haven't used buttons on cards before but the idea excites me.

[badly_knitted]

Crafters are improvisers and innovators; we find uses for all kinds of things, and new ways of using them.