Check-In Post September 24th 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]

Busy busy day... I've ordered my shed!

Also finished sleeve two, but the last bit of yarn was abominable. 12 rows and the cast off row, and three joins! The last two were on the cast off row so I just kept going. The joins will be on the seam anyway.

[peaceful_sands]

Big success in ordering the new shed. How frustrating to have so many joins in the yarn.

[badly_knitted]

Thanks, I'm proud of myself. I even ordered a shelf unit for it and some wood preserver.

I've never had a ball of yarn this bad. I can see at least one more join, but this is the ball of yarn I'll be using for the neckband so hopefully I can manage. I'm going to wind this bit into balls, just so I won't get anymore unexpected joins popping up as I knit.

[wiseheart]

On the seam or not, they must be annoying. Good for you to make so much progress nevertheless - and yay for having ordered the shed!

[badly_knitted]

Extremely annoying, but I wasn't going to undo the cast off when I'd already had to undo part of an earlier row because of a join. Even the big 100g balls of economy yarn aren't usually so full of joins. I can't remember ever finding more than one join in a ball, but this one has at least 4.

Thanks, I'm proud of achieving shed purchase. Those things aren't cheap!

[medievalrosalie]

That's fantastic about the new shed! Woohoo! Super annoying about the joins in the wool. I remember the days of not really finding any but perhaps I just didn't notice, since I don't knot and I'm usually using wool for other things.

[badly_knitted]

Thanks! I'm excited about the new shed, even though it won't arrive for a few weeks yet.

It's sort of inevitable that there'll be an occasional join because if you've got 5 100g balls of the same dye lot, how long a strand could the manufacturer have made without a break in it? Finding a bunch in the same ball is tremendously annoying though.

[wiseheart]

The mini-mittens, as promised:



I also worked a tiny bit with the lolly sticks, making one Christmas tree and adding more decoration to my lonely snowflake.

[badly_knitted]

Those are all adorably cute! I especially like the bright, sunny yellow ones, so good to see a different colour to the traditional Christmas ones.

I'm sure your lonely lolly stick snowflake won't stay lonely for too much longer!

[wiseheart]

It has gained a sibling today.

[badly_knitted]

Yay! Happy snowflakes!

[annofowlshire]

Wow!

[peaceful_sands]

Oooh, they're lovely.

[wiseheart]

Thanks. :)

[medievalrosalie]

Hooray for snowflakes!

[m_findlow]

*waves* Due for a check in I must be! Still locked down and still waiting for my first vaccine appointment, so meh.

Dabbling here and there. A few cards in the last couple of days after a mini hiatus of lacking inspiration. Trying also to bake something each weekend. This weekend it was dark choc banana loaf and last weekend lemon butter and a lemon slice (lemons have come into abundance on our tree after years of gawl wasp infestation).
Mainly working on my baby cross stitch, maybe three quarters of the main design done, but turns out that all the white segments are just blank, not actually white stitching, so I think once it's done I'll go back and fill in the white with real stitches to make it look less cheap and shortcutty (I hate blank areas, it just feels wrong). I've got some leftover white thread but can always order more. White is one colour easy to buy at least.

Hope everyone else is doing okay!

[badly_knitted]

*waves back from the other side of the world*

Sounds like you're getting a lot done on various projects. I like the sound of the lemon slice, but like Tosh, I'm allergic to bananas.

The cross stitch is going great. I know what you mean about the blank areas in a design, Makes it look unfinished somehow. It's fine if it's the background, but when it's part of the design...

[medievalrosalie]

Good to hear that your lemon tree is doing so well! I had a problem with gall wasps too and had to do a massive cut back. The dark choc banana loaf sounds divine!

[medievalrosalie]

Well, the sleeves aren't done and I did actually get out the roses badhangings, but I'm remembering what a bit job it is. I did a blog post about them because I've found that if I post up about something on social media, I feel morally obliged to myself to actually work on it. wahahaha
https://medievalrosalie.dreamwidth.org/file/20838.jpg

[medievalrosalie]

Don't know why the picture didn't insert itself.

[annofowlshire]

Public accountability is a real thing!

[medievalrosalie]

It sure is!

[badly_knitted]

Oh my, that DOES look like a big job, but the roses are very pretty.

[medievalrosalie]

It really, really is. I guess I started it a year before Covid, or maybe the year before that? I could have painted them like the lest one I made, but I wanted to kick it up a notch. I hope to be using it next July at the latest, so I have to get on with it!

[badly_knitted]

I'm sure you;'ll get there once you persuade yourself to knuckle down and get on with it! Big projects are daunting so just take it one rose at a time ;)

[medievalrosalie]

https://medievalrosalie.livejournal.com/62647.html
Blog post with all the steps and photos here!

[annofowlshire]

Finished the second bobbin, wanted to go on and ply the yarn together but Mr wanted to watch a movie* and I knew the sound of the spinning wheel would bother him so I finished knitting another washcloth instead.

Maybe this weekend!

[badly_knitted]

Ah yes, spinning isn't exactly silent. Here's hoping you get to spin over the weekend!

[medievalrosalie]

I find the sound of a spinning wheel soothing, but at least you got other things done!

[annofowlshire]

The Mr is really sensory sensitive* and gets distracted by unrelated sounds. Drives me a bit crazy because I’m a multitasker—especially while watching TV—but I have other quieter crafts I can do ^_^

(*True story: he was complaining to me and some guest recently about how even with his heavy duty work gloves on some things still poked him and he found it uncomfortable and he was like “doesn’t anyone else find this a problem?” and I looked him dead in the eye and said “Almost all of my hobbies involve use of needles.”)

[badly_knitted]

Your poor hubby, being so sensitive must suck at times. I'm thankful that I'm not overly sensitive, considering how often I stab myself with various implements!