Check-In Post October 4th 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've been on dreamwidth for a looong time *grins*

Must admit I always use balled yarn because I'm on a very tight budget, and most of what I have was bought cheap many, many years ago. But it's good enough to make hardwearing sweaters for myself, so I'm not complaining even though I like to look at pretty, expensive yarns that I know I can never afford. I've got more than enough as it is to last me for years.

[tathra_inth]

I tried a couple times after the great LiveJournal abandoning, but I don't think I ever actually joined any comms and no one I knew was really active here, so naturally I wasn't actually doing anything but posting into a void. Trying to fix that this time around, lol.

My partner bought me a yarn winder a few Christmases ago and it's been a life-saver just because I always get annoyed at the way the balls try to run away even when I think I've found a position they'll sit mostly still in, also on the occasion I end up with a hank because I always end up knotting those even when I'm just trying to ball them. But these were already in balls, and we moved in April and still haven't unpacked everything so I'm not entirely sure where the winder is, and runaway yarn balls aren't enough of an annoyance for me to dig around for it.

[badly_knitted]

I'm on LJ too (and so is this community although there aren't any members there, or no one active), but I prefer DW for things like this.

With shop bought balls, I usually start from the inside, then the ball doesn't roll around. With self-wound balls, I put one in a plastic carrier bag with the handles tied. Then the ball unwinds in the bag without escaping across the floor, and if you put one foot on a bag corner, it keeps the bag still.