Check-In Post May 29th 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.
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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[badly_knitted]

After yesterday's stress I've done very little of anything today, just a bit of writing this morning and some games this afternoon.

I continued my Zuma game, played very badly, and lost my last life on level 6.3. Then I played some card games, much more successfully. I'm trying to remember which of the many games on my Solitaire Master 5 compendium were my favourites. I think I should try playing each game and see which I like.

[wiseheart]

Do it methodically! *g*

[badly_knitted]

I'll start at the top of the list...

[celli]

yay zuma!

[badly_knitted]

It's a fun game when I'm playing well, frustrating when I'm not.

[darkcedars]

You may also like different ones this time around.

[badly_knitted]

I might indeed, because I know I haven't tried all of them.

[peaceful_sands]

After the drama - you deserve the chance to relax and decompress from the stress! Hope you enjoyed your games and the writing went well.

[badly_knitted]

That's what I thought. I enjoyed the games, even if I played some of them very badly, and reading fanfic later. My writing was okay, not my best but good enough.

[tielan]

A bit of writing and some games is progress. And sometimes we need a break from the intensity of our hobbies and projects.

[badly_knitted]

The cold, wet weather has sapped my creative energies and I can't do cross stitch when my hands are cold, so crafting has been pushed aside for now in favour of games. The writing is every day anyway. I haven't missed a day in about 10 years. It keeps me more or less sane.

[wiseheart]

I worked on the castle puzzle page for Elise's granddaughter. The page base is almost done, including the sewing on of 9 pieces of Velcro - I never know which sides are the hooks and which the loops; these were the extreme hard and scratchy parts in any case. Am I happy to have them done! To actually finish the base page I still have to stitch along 4 sides, each 15 cm long, but since I'm doing it with running stitch, it won't be too hard. Or wouldn't if I could make straight, even stitches, which I cannot. Not even along the line drawn with a ruler. *sigh*

[celli]

I also cannot stitch a straight line even with help, so I send you luck!

[wiseheart]

Thanks. Luck is very much needed.

[darkcedars]

Great progress! I struggle to sew straight as well.

[wiseheart]

I can't do *anything* straight. Anything at all. Sister Richardis meant (when I was a novice) that I must have a crease in my pupil. ;))

[badly_knitted]

Excellent progress and well done with the velcro attachment!

Straight lines are hard.

[wiseheart]

Straight lines are hard.

Is that why we like slash? *g*

[badly_knitted]

*grins* maybe?

[peaceful_sands]

Hope things continued well and that you did okay with the running stitches (even if they weren't completely straight).

[wiseheart]

They turned out acceptable - although not what I'd want, but that's my limit.

[celli]

I spent mumblety hours today catching up on my sampler - I think if I have enough purple left when I'm done I'll go back to this word and make more defined lines between each letter, it's super hard to read. I also noodled a bit on the one I frogged yesterday and will work on more of that, but first I have to do the dishes so I can cook dinner...which will create more dishes to do...why does this never end????

[darkcedars]

That's really neat, I know next to zero about embroidery, so if I have seen it before I didn't realize.

My brother lives with us and it's his turn to cook. He wanted to grill and it's too windy, I'm trying to get him to cook the food in the oven now.

[badly_knitted]

Yes, I can see what you mean, the letters are blending together in places. Still, you're making great progress!

[peaceful_sands]

Well done on your progress.

[darkcedars]

No crafting today, though I might work on the afghan a bit later if I feel up to it.

Mostly started work on the yard that has started to grow over the brick sidewalk. Did about 1/6 of scraping up the dirt. Dumped it in one of the sections that likes to mud puddle under the oak tree. Did a little weeding between the bricks as I went.

[badly_knitted]

Jobs like that are always slow going but so worthwhile when you see the end result!

[peaceful_sands]

A lot of hard work but the results will be worth it.

[tielan]

This is over the last few days, but. I completed a quilt that I started back in 2012 and which I never finished...

[peaceful_sands]

It looks lovely - well done on completing it.

[badly_knitted]

WOW! That looks wonderful, well done!

Nice to see one of your chickens!

[darkcedars]

It's lovely and congrats on finishing your project!

[wiseheart]

Oh, but this is amazing!

[peaceful_sands]

Thank you to everyone for the kind comments on the picture of the finished cross-stitch. I also managed to get a little done on the dolphin tapestry on Saturday.

Yesterday I worked on what I had hoped was going to be a Christmas card design but it is seriously tiny! I'm thinking it is more the size of a gift tag, which is a bit disappointing. I'm wondering if there's a way to double to size of some of the smaller pictures in the books to make something more the size I hoped - but I'll need to think about the practicalities.

[badly_knitted]

Glad to hear you're making progress on the tapestry!

That's disappointing. Perhaps you could do four of the smaller designs set out in a square to make something bigger, or stitch a fancy border around the design so it's a more suitable size. Or even stitch Happy Christmas or a similar greeting. If you have tall two-fold card blanks, you could stitch 3 small designs, each on a separate piece of fabric, fray the edges, and mount them in a column, or turn the card sideways and have them in a row.

[darkcedars]

Oh good luck. I agree with BK that a message and/or border might be the way to go.

[wiseheart]

I'm wondering if there's a way to double to size of some of the smaller pictures in the books

That sounds as if there would be lost of maths involved. *shudders*

[badly_knitted]

Using lower count fabric can do that (fewer holes per inch), but it means using more strands of thread.