Check-In Post October 2nd 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]

I finally got my order delivered! Yay! I'm not convinced that I would have if I hadn't been outside in front of my house when it arrived, but I got it so I guess that's what matters.

My shed is due to arrive on Tuesday between 7am and 10.30 am, so I'll have to get up at 6 in the morning! Ugh.

Saturday is Strictly Come Dancing, which is why I'm posting later than I have been, but I got 12 rows done on my sweater before the show started, and 20 rows on the arm warmer while watching.

Someone local is having fireworks *rolls eyes* Can't see anything, there's just a lot of banging.

[smallhobbit]

I've realised I've made a small mistake in the pattern of my current throw square (used the wrong colour), but I'm not going back. I'll Swiss darn over it, and it's not as if anyone but me will notice. This is what happens when you take a two colour pattern and make it multi-colour!

[alafaye]

I managed to get my cat off my lap long enough to add some rows to the scarf for my sister \o/

[verdande_mi]

I finally finished with all the ends of a blanket I made of granny squares, and I gifted it to my niece. Now I have to get back to my own knitting project, while also sowing another granny square blanket all together.

[peaceful_sands]

Trip to the craft shop was frustrating - big gap in the display of tapestry wools round the colours I was looking for so limited choice, unhelpful staff (I don't mind the answer 'I don't know if/when more stock will arrive' when it's delivered courteously -'nuff said on that and we won't get to the comments to me about people 'overreacting to possibility of' catching Covid while I was standing there in a mask), bought a similarish colour and now have a decision to make - do I go with the newly bought colour which means unpicking some of what I've done or do I wait till end of the month and see if I can get something closer when I go to UK. My problem is I don't know what colour it is in terms of anchor number as it's lost its cover so no possibility of ordering online for this one.

As I left in the rain and a bit of a grumpy mood (quite a lot of one but not just due to experience in there), I thought of somewhere else I could try, so walked all the way to the other possibility in the increasing rain only to get there as they locked the door and flipped the closed sign over so I still don't know if they even sell tapestry wool.

I was not in the mood to craft by the evening - but sulked in front of the TV for a while instead - kidding about the sulking but not the lack of crafting. I actually spent a bit of time searching the lovecrafts website.

[wiseheart]

I've pinned together the fabric for a cherry stone pillow I intend to sew as an in-between project. Does it count?

Guernsey Wrap

[slightlymotheaten]

This is my first time commenting. I'm new to Dreamwidth and am searching for crafting communities :)

I'm about 3/4 of the way through Jared Flood's Guernsey Wrap. I'm making it with fingering weight yarn so it's a bit smaller than the pattern description. That's fine though - it's plenty big as it is! I'm using a soft and drapey 75% cotton, 25% wool.