Check-In Post August 16th 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

[peaceful_sands]

More cross-stitch. Mickey now has legs and the start of a… is the word robe? Or cape? Cloak maybe? Also worked more on the floor. Thinking of doing some shading under one of the brooms and Mickey as I’m in danger of miscounting the flooring around them without it.

[badly_knitted]

Yay! Well done.

Hard to say which is more apt since I haven't seen the design yest, but with wizards it's usually robe, so... *shrugs*

Mm, shading sounds like it could be helpful. The floor sounds tricky.

[peaceful_sands]

I'm going to stick with robe - it's definitely not a cape.

What's making the floor tricky is it's size and the fact that some of the 'paving slabs' are different heights, but they're all on a slanted angle which means that the distance from the next/last slab is harder to count when I'm trying to work out where to start the next piece that juts out and I keep seconding guessing myself and recounting multiple times because I'm not convinced. Other bits are trickier in terms of being more intricate, but I guess because they're smaller or I'm counting from something that's already in situ (not across a gap of nothing) it seems more straightforward in a way.

[badly_knitted]

Then it's a robe *nods*

Big gaps between stitched areas can be a nightmare. I always count, poke my needle in, double check on the chart, and count again on the fabric, just to be sure I'm in the right place. And I still sometimes get it wrong.

[smallhobbit]

It sounds to be coming on well!

[medievalrosalie]

Go Mickey!