Check-In Post June 14th 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]

Spent some time in the garden, batting brambles and a rose that I have no idea where it even came from. It's a wild one, in a stupid place, so I've cut it down as far as I can manage using the loppers on the inch thick main stem — why are roses so much harder to cut through than brambles? Anyway, good progress made.

It made up a bit for this morning's disaster where I completely forgot I was hard boiling eggs. Had to throw them away. Two hours is really far too long, they were scorched and rubbery. Anyone else ever done something that dumb when cooking?

[yarnofariadne]

I've done that exact thing with eggs before, too. Also left my lunch in the microwave for five hours after forgetting I'd reheated something and made myself something entirely else for lunch.

[badly_knitted]

Thank you, I'm so glad it's not just me! I've overboiled my eggs before, but not by two hours.

[wiseheart]

I think we all have done such things. *pats you*

[badly_knitted]

Thank you. I'll try again tomorrow with the rest of the eggs =/

[peaceful_sands]

I can't say I've ever done it with eggs but other foodstuffs most definitely (toasting one side of the bread to make cheese on toast is a particularly sore point as I haven't even learnt the lesson of having done it once.. twice ... three times - you get the drift. I'm sure there's some evil demon lurking under the grill so that once I've checked it and it needs longer it then gives a sudden blast of 'burn everything now' so that the next thing is smoke billowing out of the grill and it doesn't have anything to do with me thinking 'oh there'll be just enough time to ...'

[badly_knitted]

That critical toast point happens so fast though. It goes from underdone to about to ignite in about half a second, I swear.

[celli]

many, many dumb things, I promise you. :)

[badly_knitted]

It's reassuring to know I'm not the only one. I used a timer for my eggs today, so these should be edible at least...

[yarnofariadne]

A few more rows on the scarf! Also did a good chunk of editing today which I'm pleased with :D

[wiseheart]

Go you!

[badly_knitted]

Excellent!

(I rather like editing, that's when I flesh out the bones of a story.)

[yarnofariadne]

Me too! Editing is when it starts to feel like I've done something good :D

[peaceful_sands]

Well done on all your achievements.

[celli]

yay to both!

[wiseheart]

I'm really pissed! For some reason AO3 decided to hide one of my stories that has been up there for 3 years, no reason given. (It's Torchwoodgate, BTW). Now I'm at a loss what to do about it, aside from contacting Support and Abuse. *sigh*

As for crafting, I've started two new Big Fish(TM), a dark blue and a very dark pink, almost purple one. The latter is half-finished and already looks good, the former had his bright orange scales sewn on - that one is gonna be a neon fish, for sure, but I don't mind.

[stationblorbos]

That is super frustrating about Ao3!

[wiseheart]

It is! But it turns out that I've made a serious mistake and they were within their rights, so I'll have to do some massive rewriting.

[stationblorbos]

Oh no! Hopefully it all works out

[badly_knitted]

Ouch! But you can fix it now that you know!

[badly_knitted]

How odd! Hopefully support can help, but that's a weird thing to happen.

Yay for the new fish, bright orange looks great with dark blue, he'll be very eye-catching!

[wiseheart]

You mean eye-watering, right? *g*

[badly_knitted]

Depends on the point of view of the person looking at your fish, I would think *g*

[peaceful_sands]

Sorry to hear about the trials of AO3 but well done on the Big Fish progress.

[wiseheart]

Thanks. Since, it turns out, I was the one who made a mistake, so I can't really blame them.

[yarnofariadne]

I hope you're able to sort things out with Ao3.

I love the sound of the new Big Fish!

[wiseheart]

Well, it seems that it was my fault, so I hope that correcting it will set things right.

[stationblorbos]

Did some spiritual work yesterday which was good. I went home from work early because of burnout. I needed a mental health day.

Going to maybe get some stitching done tonight, depending on how I feel. Because I also want to get stoned (legal in Canada) and play Pokemon lol

[badly_knitted]

It's especially important these days to take of our mental health, there's so much stress in our lives. Hope you have a relaxing evening whatever you decide to do =)

[stationblorbos]

I feel like a lot of industries (mine especially, trucking) doesn't take that stuff seriously. Burnout is dangerous

[badly_knitted]

Agreed. Anyone in charge of any kind of machinery or vehicle becomes a danger if they're suffering from burnout, or overtired. Reaction times become slower, attention wanders... Recipe for disaster.

[peaceful_sands]

I hope you get to relax and glad you are able to take some time from work.

[stationblorbos]

It was great!

[celli]

I support your mental health day, omg

[stationblorbos]

Honestly I think everyone deserves one mental health day, at minimum, a month. Where you can just fuck right off and relax.

[badly_knitted]

I support that idea!

[yarnofariadne]

I hope your mental health day is restorative!

[stationblorbos]

It was great! I felt very revitalizated on Monday

[peaceful_sands]

Last night I did some cross-stitch but tonight by the time I sat down I was running out of time to finish my book (I wanted to finish the one I was reading which was about Medusa and Perseus, before going onto my next audio book which is about Achilles - I didn't want to be getting confused!).

[badly_knitted]

At least you have done some cross stitch recently. It's been weeks since I touched mine.

Hope you finished your book!

[yarnofariadne]

Ooh I like the sound of the books you're reading!

[celli]

I finished a new project last night! It just needs the backing on the hoop and then it can wing its way to its recipient, who is excited to get it, and that makes me happy.

unfortunately I seem to have overdone it, crafting-wise, this week, and my hands, wrists, and elbows are all objecting every time I go near a needle. very frustrating.

[yarnofariadne]

The embroidery looks amazing! I hope you feel better soon.

[badly_knitted]

That looks really great, it seems sparkly to my eyes but I'm not sure if that's just me *grins*

Ouch! Never fun when hands and arms start protesting.