Check-In Post October 20th 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]

Had a quiet day, working on my spook_me fic and chatting with a friend. It's been a day of sunshine and heavy showers, changing every few minutes, but... My replacement parts for the shed arrived! Hopefully I can start painting them tomorrow when the weather is supposed to be better.

I've added another 20 rows to the second arm warmer, leaving that at 140, and I've cast off but it's too tight so I'll have to re-do that once I've finished the first arm warmer.

[peaceful_sands]

A quiet day sounds lovely. I’d like one of those please 😊. Our weather was lovely this morning but I’m sitting here now and I’ve had to turn up the volume on the TV because the wind and rain are so loud!

Yay! Replacement parts that’s brilliant news. Writing and knitting sounds like you’ve been very productive. Is that you almost finished on the arm warmers? How’s the nail biting sweater?

[peaceful_sands]

I’m working on the tapestry again. I’ve sat down to work on it a bit earlier tonight so might actually get the colour band finished today leaving me two to go.

[wiseheart]

I've made one popsicle angel today; experimented with a painted one. Still not perfecz, but considerably more elegant than the previous ones. Otherwise, I worked on my sheer endless crossover timeline.

[wiseheart]

Good luck!

[wiseheart]

So annoying when you have to redo something you've already finished! But quiet days are good. I wish you nice weather for tomorrow's painting job.

[peaceful_sands]

Adapting and experimenting with your angels sounds interesting. Also sounds like you’re really getting back into your writing

[badly_knitted]

Wish I could give you one, but hopefully you'll have a quiet day yourself soon.

I like windy days, but when it's hammering the rain against the windows it can be deafening.

Yes, another 20 rows and the other one will be finished, then it's just a case of casting off the finished one a bit more loosely and stitching up the side seam, which is boring but necessary.

The sweater is almost done, but next I have to sew up a shoulder seam and pick up for the neckband, and I just haven't been in the mood for it. I'll get it done soon. hopefully, and after that it's yet more sewing up. I often wish I could skip that step. It's easy enough, just tedious.

[badly_knitted]

Yay! You're really motoring along with it, you'll have it finished before you know it, but then what will you do with it?

[badly_knitted]

Perfection is overrated, but I hope we'll get to see the new improved version at some point!

You'll get the crossover finished eventually.

[badly_knitted]

It's not a lot to re-do, I was just in too much of a rush to finish it so it's my own fault.

Thanks! The pieces were a bit damp when I cut them out of their plastic packaging, so I'm hoping they'll feel dry enough tomorrow for painting.

[peaceful_sands]

If it looks okay when I take it off the frame, I’m thinking of getting it framed and giving it as a Christmas present.

[peaceful_sands]

Right now I’d almost settle for a day when I got a lunch break or could finish on time without having had to start work early *sigh*. I’m not even asking for both!

I know what you mean about the sewing up part of projects, still it will be worth it when you’re done and have a nice new sweater and the arm warmers (I think you said they were for someone else?) then you get to pick your next project. 😉

[badly_knitted]

It does sound like it would make a lovely gift!

[badly_knitted]

That sounds very NOT fun. So sorry you're so overworked =(

It will, and I think the sweater will look good when it's completed. I just prefer the knitting to the sewing up. Yes, the arm warmers are for a friend so I hope they'll be appreciated.

Picking a new project is almost the best part. I have SO MANY patterns I want to knit, and so much yarn to use up. I might be doing another red one, I have to unravel a sweater I was knitting which was never going to fit, and knit the yarn up into something else - I already have the pattern picked out, a nice simple one. But there are several other patterns I'm eager to try, so it's not a firm decision yet.

[nagi_schwarz]

You've been so productive. Go you!

[nagi_schwarz]

I think it's so cool that you even make tapestries. Good luck!

[nagi_schwarz]

Oooh, popsicle angels sound adorable. Do you have pictures?

Good luck with that timeline project.

[nagi_schwarz]

I finally finished my little handwarmers. Just in time for the weather to turn, too.

[annofowlshire]

I love them!

[annofowlshire]

I haven’t been keeping up on the daily posts, but I have been in crafting mania! Here’s a few things I’ve worked on over the last few weeks. Bottom centre is my current WIP.



(Apologies to those who have seen this collage already.)

[badly_knitted]

Thank you! It was a good day.

[badly_knitted]

Ooooh, pretty colours and cosy legwarmers! Scrumptious!

[badly_knitted]

They are adorable! I love the colours and the dragon scale pattern, that should make them extra cosy. (They put my plain rib arm warmers to shame.)

[wiseheart]

It's not the actual writing yet, although I've done a teensy bit of that, too. But the framework is enormous (not to mention under-appreciated), and I'll be relieved once it's finished.