Check-In Post July 25th 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]

Marathon knitting session tonight, 38 rows, and I'm now at 14 inches. I think my hands might fall off.

Don't think I mentioned, but with this one rows are a mere 99 sts instead of the 128 of the last sweater. Also no cables, so no fiddling with and dropping the cable needle. Makes for faster knitting.

I seem to be alternating a cable pattern with a non-cable pattern. The red sweater was cabled, the pale pink was lace, the fuchsia was cabled, and now I'm back to lace again.

I also got almost 3 hours in the garden battling the ivy. I'm making progress. And I've discovered there are three chickens next door, not two. They're all gingery brown though, and hard to tell apart. Yesterday I only saw two at the same time, but it may not have always been the same two. Chickens are sneaky.

[smallhobbit]

Even with less stitches and no cable needle, you're still racing up this sweater!

Clearly the chickens were just pret-hen-ding to only be two of them.

[wiseheart]

Pret-hen-ding? *dies*

[badly_knitted]

smallhobbit is mistress of the pun!

[badly_knitted]

Thanks! Let's just say I have seen how much yarn I've got in the box room, and there is A LOT. I want to use as much as I can, so if I knit really fast... *grins*

*groan*

[medievalrosalie]

That's nothing short of epic!

[badly_knitted]

Thanks! I was surprised, but I was listening to good music so I just kept going. I'll have to stop work on the back and make a sleeve next though, so I know how much yarn I have to finish back and front.

[nagi_schwarz]

That's so fast! Go you!

And yes, those chickens are indeed sneaky.

[badly_knitted]

I can hardly believe I've got so far in only 4 days! There was a time, long ago, that I would knit all day and get things done way faster, but a couple of hours a day is all I get now.

As long as they don't sneak out of their yard they'll be fine. Never forgotten the day someone came to my door to tell me there was a chicken in my driveway. I had to go next door with a chicken tucked under my arm. "Is this yours?"

[wiseheart]

I've cut out the page bases for the baby book and made the inner binding... thingie. Now I only have to glue together the page bases, and then the real fun can begin: embellishments, pockets folding cards and the likes!

[badly_knitted]

You're making great progress on the less fun parts. Preparation is so important.

[medievalrosalie]

That sounds really lovely!

[nagi_schwarz]

That baby book sounds like it's going to be lovely!

[medievalrosalie]

I've sewn the shoulders and pinned the neckline for the newest woolen gowne, and I'm slowly making headway on that. I feel a bit bad that I haven't finished off the light blue thick wool surcote. It's so close to being finished and I shouldn't be so slack.

[nagi_schwarz]

That sounds very complicated, so kudos to you! You can do it!

[badly_knitted]

You're making good progress with your gowne though.

You're not the only one with something unfinished, I still haven't sewn up the rest of my white summer top. Like mine, yours will get done when it gets done. Until then, just relax and get on with other things.

[monksandbones]

I untaped my dislocated finger on Friday to see how it did with a bit of knitting, and it worked well enough that I was able to complete four more (very long) rows on my current project, a large shawl that is nearly finished, while watching the Olympics last night. I'm hoping for a bit more tonight!

[nagi_schwarz]

Sorry about your busted finger. Hope it feels better soon!

Good luck with your shawl. :)

[badly_knitted]

Woohoo! That's great news! I hope the finger holds up and you can get back into your knitting rhythm.

[medievalrosalie]

Good to hear your finger allowed some knitting! I've managed very little Olympic watching this time, just highlights really.

[nagi_schwarz]

Between K-dramas the last couple of days and D&D tonight, I finished the yoke and one sleeve of the toddler sweater I'm making and I'm about a quarter of the way through the second sleeve. It's just a plain knitted raglan sweater, so nothing fancy, and when I don't have a toddler crawling on me, I can go pretty fast, but doing the sleeves on double-pointed needles is kind of slowing me down.

[badly_knitted]

Is this one where you work from the top downwards? I've never knitted a raglan sweater that way but I've heard of it being done.

Anyway, terrific progress. Sounds like it won't take you all that long to finish it!

[nagi_schwarz]

I've only ever made a sweater top-down before. /shrug

I'm very much a beginner at knitting, so there is that.

Thank you! I hope to get it done soon.

[badly_knitted]

All depends on the pattern and what you're used to.

You seem to be doing really well with your knitting.

Is the sweater for your own toddler?

[medievalrosalie]

Ah but the Toddler Life is the best in the world. They're so interested in everything.

[nagi_schwarz]

Mostly she just likes it when I cuddle her, so I have learned to sort of knit with her on my lap.