Check-In Post June 15th 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]

Today I hard boiled my remaining eggs. It was a much more successful attempt than yesterday, thanks to an ingenious device known as a timer... I have no less than six of them in the kitchen, and until now it never occurred to me to use one when hard boiling eggs >.<

Also got about an hour and a half outside, cutting back the overgrown hedge at the bottom of the garden, behind the greenhouses, so I can get along the path to the laurel bush (which is more of a tree) that is wrecking one of the greenhouses. I'm having the laurel removed later in the year, so the tree guys need to be able to get at it. Hoping to clean up the path over the next few days so it's safe to walk on.

[wiseheart]

Wow! That's a lot of work for one day!

[badly_knitted]

And I spent the morning writing too... I did good =)

[darkcedars]

It does tend to be helpful to use the timer!

Good work on more yard tidying.

[badly_knitted]

I'm discovering that! Remarkable things, timers *grins*

Thanks, although it's less tidying and more battling my way through the jungle with secateurs instead of a machete. =/

[darkcedars]

I need to start working on removing saplings. There's some growing up out of the privet hedge, in the peonies, in the spirea. I've bought some specific brush killer that *supposedly* doesn't harm nearby plants (you cut the sapling and put the stuff on it's stump).

[badly_knitted]

Good luck with that, saplings are a menace! I cut a maple out of the hedge the other day and it will probably grow back. There are bigger ones elsewhere in the hedges that I had the tree people tackle last year but which still aren't quite dead

[peaceful_sands]

Yay for egg success! Well done on getting so much done in the garden and writing as well. You're a star!

[badly_knitted]

Thanks!

Got to do as much as I can outside because there's only going to be two more days of good weather before it goes wet and cold again. A drop of 13C overnight between Friday and Saturday =(

[sister_raphael]

Yay, gardening! I'm a bit jealous you have greenhouses!

[badly_knitted]

I do, there are two at the end of the garden, but they're full of junk and one has several broken panes courtesy of the monster laurel bush. I used to grow and sell plants until a vine weevil infestation put a stop to that.

[wiseheart]

I worked a bit on my Big Fishies(TM), cutting out several new bases and parts. No actual sewing was done today - way too little time for that - but I'm making progress, and that's what counts.

[badly_knitted]

You'll soon have a whole school of fishies!

[wiseheart]

8 are planned, including the very first one, but we know what happened to you and the meeces, so...

[badly_knitted]

300 fishes later, you'll be going, "I have no idea how that happened!" *g*

[wiseheart]

God I hope not! They are really hard on the fingertips. I think 100 would suffice.

[badly_knitted]

100 it is then ;)

You probably won't make that many, but maybe a thimble would help protect your fingertips.

[wiseheart]

It probably would, but I can't sew very well using a thimble, so I only do so in cases of extreme need. *g*

[badly_knitted]

It's tricky, but it gets easier with practice, or it did for me. There are times when thimbles are a life, or maybe that should be finger, saver.

[wiseheart]

I know, but the problem is my fingers are so thick I have yet to find a thimble I can wear comfortably. Someone gifted upon me one the size of which can be changed, but that one has no dome, and I couldn't get used to push the needle sidewise.

[badly_knitted]

Finding a thimble that fits right is the hardest part.

[darkcedars]

Sounds good, I like doing an assembly line like that sometimes too.

[wiseheart]

It definitely speeds up the process.

[peaceful_sands]

At least you are moving forward in a positive way - everything will be prepared when you do get to the sewing.

[wiseheart]

That's what I'm telling myself. *g*

[sister_raphael]

They sound interesting! I will have to read back when I can, but I'm guessing part of an Under The Sea soft
book?

[wiseheart]

No, actually they are an unexpected side product. The first Big Fish(TM) was supposed to be the central motif of the deep sea page but turned out too large and ended up as an independent ornament. Then I liked it so much that I decided to make more, in different colours.

[darkcedars]

Very hot here. I unexpectedly had to shampoo the arm chair and wash its slipcover today, so I didn't get outside. I've been trying to do just a tiny bit here and there before it gets too hot.

I did start the next baby blanket. It took 3 pattern tries to decide on one I liked. I have about a 4" square so far. It is center out, in shells/waves, and I'm using another of the self-striping yarn. So It's going to make fun effects once I get further along.

[peaceful_sands]

Sounds like you have had a productive day - good that you've decided on a pattern for your next project.

[sister_raphael]

Hooray for starting a baby blanket! Striped yarn sounds very nice!

[badly_knitted]

Here I am wishing for warmer weather and you're getting too much heat *sigh* Why can't we all have just the right amount of hot to suit us? Shampooing an armchair does not sound fun.

Good luck with the new blanket, I shall look forward to seeing it, those self-striping yarns look so good.

[celli]

I did only minimal work today because I'm on enforced restrictions - my arms were bad enough that I went to the doctor, and I haven't done any damage but we need to prevent it.

SIGH.

[darkcedars]

Oh that sucks. Hope it stabilizes soon.

[peaceful_sands]

Sorry to hear that - I hope things look up soon.

[sister_raphael]

Rest up and do no more than you can.

[badly_knitted]

Ugh, so sorry =(

Rest your poor arms and let them recover.

[wiseheart]

Oh dear, I hope you'll recover, soon.

[peaceful_sands]

Nothing done - but a letter written to a friend - still another one to do and two birthday cards to write - hopefully I'll get to those tonight.

[sister_raphael]

Letter writing is wonderful. Not many people do these days.

[badly_knitted]

Keeping in touch with friends is important!

[wiseheart]

Hand-written letters have something very personal in these days.

[sister_raphael]

I haven't been online long enough to catch up with anything or post but I have been powering through craft projects at an astonishing rate while I see deadlines creep closer and I am motivated. I have a TON of posts to put up when I get sick of working on things. The short version (and some of these are not finished):
- painting another wooden box with illumination style pattern.
- shield still in progress.
- cloak brooches attached to cloak.
- wedding circlet finished.
- silver roses circlet finished.
- new tent poles chiselled, cut and painted.
- decided to put gold trim and beading around a surcote.
- reinforcing sewn on tent wall, but hooks not done.
- silk cushion cut up ready to make flags.
- 3 flower crowns re-glued for sturdiness.
- another made from scratch.
- signs made, printed and laminated for tent.
- dust jackets cut and but on more books.
- Opening ceremony for festival approved, Lord Herald engaged and performers all cast.
- Flu shot didn't try to kill me this year! (Hooray!)

I am tired now. There will be updates and posts, but not for a few days. I'd post more now but, you know, sewing doesn't do itself and the beading on the surcote is taking ages (but looking pretty swish!)

https://sister-raphael.dreamwidth.org/file/8752.jpg for a pic of the cloak brooches attached and the silver circlet on. There's a post up now too, but no more tonight or nothing will get done!

[badly_knitted]

That is a massive list! You've done so much, even though there a lot of things still to finish. The festival sounds like it will be amazing. Wish I could see it myself, but hopefully there will be a picture or two of everything set up.

I like the sound of the beading, but it does sound very labour intensive.

You look so Medieval in your new cloak and accoutrements! The brooches are bigger than I thought they were, so striking!

[wiseheart]

Wow! You've been truly industrious!