Check-In Post June 12th 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]

Got some time out in the garden again today and started tackling the sticky weed. Usually I throw weeds on the compost heap, but this stuff was already producing seeds and there was so much of it I decided to put it in the garden waste bin.

I filled four buckets with the damn stuff, and by 'full' I mean cramming as much as a could in, packing it down, and then piling more on top until I couldn't see where the handle was. I cleared maybe two thirds of the biggest patch, and had to untangle it from a rambling rose, so I shredded one hand and got scratches up both arms.

Couldn't wear gardening gloves because sticky weed sticks to everything, including bare skin although to a slightly lesser extent than fabric, but I feel like I've been sandpapered. I hate that stuff, I was pulling yards of it out and ended up with literal green fingers. Now, after umpteen washes, they're just stained brown. I still have the rest of the weed to clear, and I know most of the roots are probably still there, not to mention seeds... *sigh* That's what happens when it's wet out. Everything grows like mad.

[wiseheart]

My Dutch friends used to borrow the goats from the neighbours to get rid of the weed. ;)
You are a hero!

[wiseheart]

I tried to work a bit on the deep sea page (made one jellyfish that turned out so horrible that I cut it in pieces and threw it out - there went an hour of devoted work down the drainage). I still got some pearls sewn on to the coral and cut out the bases for two more Big Fish(TM), but that was all about crafting today.

Of course, the fact that we had our concert today did play a small role in the somewhat stressful nature of the day.

[badly_knitted]

The goats would have probably eaten my roses as well ;)

[badly_knitted]

Poor doomed jellyfish. At least you made some positive progress though.

The concert must have taken most of your time so it's amazing you found any time at all for crafting.

[smallhobbit]

But lots of seeds - the perfect prompt for fan_flashworks ;)

[smallhobbit]

There's some progress, if not as much as you had hoped.

[smallhobbit]

I'm currently working hard on a cross stitch initial for a bookmark for a friend's birthday on Wednesday.

[wiseheart]

True. There is no perfect solution. *sigh*

[wiseheart]

I had less than one free hour in the morning. 50 minutes of it were eaten by the doomed jellyfish. :(

[wiseheart]

I'm very disappointed about the wretched jellyfish. I might change my mind and make a crab or a sea turtle instead doing the jellyfish again. But we'll see.

[wiseheart]

Cross stitch is hard work indeed. You need good eyes - and lots of counting is involved.

[yarnofariadne]

Oof, that sticky weed is a nightmare. Well done and good luck with the remainder of it!

[yarnofariadne]

Absolutely nothing today, spent 9 hours with a migraine :(

[smallhobbit]

This is a small pattern, and fortunately not very complicated. I had to choose something simple as I didn't have much time.

[smallhobbit]

Very sorry to hear that. Hope you feel better soon.

[wiseheart]

Oh, poor you! Get better, soon!

[badly_knitted]

But not the perfect plant >.

[badly_knitted]

*cheers you on* You can do it!

[badly_knitted]

All I can do is keep pulling them up. Although goats might be nice anyway. My uncle used to show goats.

[badly_knitted]

That must have been disappointing. I don't suppose the jellyfish was thrilled either though.

[badly_knitted]

There were moments I was sure it was going to wrap around me and leave completely immobilised o_O

[badly_knitted]

That really sucks, I'm so sorry =(

Hope you're feeling better now though.

[darkcedars]

OH no that sounds awful. I get a little of that sort of thing but not that much.

[darkcedars]

No crafting, but I finished weeding the big flowerbed, planted more nasturtiums, and did a bunch of kitchen work today.