Check-In Post June 8th 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.


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]

Today has been annoying. I wrote, which was fine, but then... On the inside of my pantry door I have a storage rack. Today, I shut the door a bit too hard and the rack fell off. I had to empty all the shelves, which at least meant I cleared out some out of date stuff, then wrestle it back into place, and then put the good stuff back. Ugh, that was the last thing I needed. I'm on strike for the rest of the day.

[wiseheart]

I had a fairly lazy day. Mostly, I worked on the deep sea page. I've selected a sea-horse for the central motif, as it is also placed vertically and thus can counterbalance the coral. I've stitched along the dratted thing for all morning and part of the afternoon, too, but at least I'm happy with the outcome. Mum likes it, too. Now, on to the other sea creatures!

I'm planning to select a few from these. Not the mermaid, though. It was pain enough to make once; also, this page was for a 20cm by 20cm book, and the current one is 18cm by 18cm. I don't want to make the scene too crowded.

[stationblorbos]

Hoping to do some pride themed nails tonight after work. I'm on the ace spectrum so I'm thinking I'll do highly sparkly black with a purple accent nail. I don't want to do heavy nail art tonight, though purple and black French tips are appealing.

Hoping to start more of a digital project tonight and get into Planet Zoo. I'd like to finish the tutorials and get started on a zoo. There is a steep learning curve but I really love the design elements of the game.

[darkcedars]

Today I took some extra photos of the dragon blanket. Laying it out on the bed and standing on the step stool was as good as I could do. If anyone wants to see more photos of that, here's my Imgur album. https://imgur.com/gallery/HAhmbX4


Since that was the end of a big project, I devoted this morning to tidying craft stuff. I also took the large nylon project basket I'd been using for the afghan outside and hosed it off, so no dust.

This afternoon I repotted a couple African violets.

[peaceful_sands]

More cross-stitch today. The latest card design is progressing but still quite a lot to do.