Check-In Post April 2nd 2022

[badly_knitted]

Hello to all members, passers-by, curious onlookers, and shy lurkers, 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 busy day writing but I still managed to fit in a bit of cross stitch and I've now stitched the third pair of leaves. I might have done more, but I had to unpick a bit due to a tangle, and before that I got an even worse tangle with resulted in the thread snapping again. It's good quality embroidery floss, but sometimes trying to pull a bad not undone puts too much strain on it.

[wiseheart]

Tangles are the *worst*! There was one of the puzzle pieces - a small 5cm by 5cm square - where I had to undo one side, oh, I think 8 or so times because the stupid running stitches turned out crooked.
It's a good thing that you finished the third pair of leaves nonetheless.

[badly_knitted]

That must have been really frustrating!

It was a struggle, but I kept at it, even though it meant I was half an hour later than I intended for doing chores.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

I hate snapping threads. Good luck with that!

[badly_knitted]

Me too. I had to thread the short end into a spare needle to finish it off, and I managed to bend the needle =(

[smallhobbit]

Pleased to hear you're making progress, even though the snapping thread must be annoying.

[badly_knitted]

It's slow but I'm getting there. I managed to bend a needle while trying to finish off the short end of the broken thread.

[medievalrosalie]

Tangles are awful.

[badly_knitted]

They are the most frustrating thing with any kind of sewing!

[wiseheart]

Castle puzzle page update:

One of the pages is finished now. All 9 puzzle pieces sewn, decorated and Velcro-applied. Only the seaming of the page is left, but that can't be done before the back cover is stitched on (this is supposed to be the penultimate page).

The second page is still in its early phases. All pieces are cut out and the motifs are fixed with double-sided tape. One puzzle piece is completed, 8 more are still to go. And then the page base, with all the Velcro... *sigh*

[badly_knitted]

Well done with completing the page, at least as far as you can get with it, and having the other page ready to be put together. Excellent progress!

[wiseheart]

Thanks. I've tried to make as much headway as possible to make up the time I'm going to lost due to the big spring cleaning in advance.

[badly_knitted]

You're so organised!

[wiseheart]

Not really. It's just so that I'm not the one to plan the schedule in this household, so I have to work like a madwoman whenever I find a little time.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Good progress!

[wiseheart]

Thanks. :)

[medievalrosalie]

But you're really making good headway!

[wiseheart]

I have to! It is a double project with way too many little details, and it has to be finished by September!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Collage journaling.

Yellow theme. Four more at my journal.

[wiseheart]

I went and looked and liked the pink one. :)

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Oh, yay! I bought some Valentine's day washi tapes on clearance after the holiday and hadn't tried them out, so I wanted to do that. And my little sticker book had all these sort of modern, young pink-themed stickers that (sort of) matched. I am glad you liked it. It was an experiment.

[badly_knitted]

They're all amazing!

[medievalrosalie]

That's so pretty!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you!!

[smallhobbit]

Sunflower for Ukraine brooch completed:

[wiseheart]

Looks great!

[smallhobbit]

Thank you very much!

[badly_knitted]

That's lovely and shaggy!

[smallhobbit]

Thank you 😎

[medievalrosalie]

That is really lovely!

[smallhobbit]

Thank you very much.

[medievalrosalie]

So, someone has asked to use my pretty roses curtains because they want to do a photo shoot and it'd be special. Not someone I am particularly close to. Im not even finished them, have taken months so far, and... haven't even used then myself yet. Unbelievable.

[smallhobbit]

How much are they prepared to pay?

[medievalrosalie]

lol. Nothing. They want to borrow it. Before I even get to use it. So they can use it first.

They don't have anything like it because it's time consuming to make something like that and they can't be bothered. I know they have the time because they put loads of time into other things that are less boring. I loaned my old tent liner/curtains to a different friend (it's painted, not stitched on, but still a massive amount of work) and it was left in the weather and returned with water marks on it. No apology. Just "Oh, that happened."

[badly_knitted]

Grrr! Don't loan anything that matters to anyone! People are notoriously careless with things that don't belong to them.

[medievalrosalie]

And I'll be clear- if this was for a photo shoot for the museum or for one of my photographer friends or for a special project, I would absolutely be open to loaning it. I'm not even invited to the thing they want to borrow it for.

[badly_knitted]

I hate how people are so entitled these days.

[wiseheart]

I hope your refused!

[badly_knitted]

*rolls eyes* Some people... They can make their own!