Check-In Post June 26th 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

[darkcedars]

Going to agree with the "exhausted" icon. I'm going to stare at the TV with the baby blanket on my lap and maybe work on it.

I've been cutting saplings along the property line and putting stump killer on them. Husband & his parents had been installing the clothesline posts but had underestimated the concrete needed and have run back to the hardware store.

Also kitchen work today. I made a green goddess salad dressing for lunch with cilantro, parsley, and green onion in yogurt. It was very tasty.

[badly_knitted]

We've both had busy but productive days in the garden! *fistbump* Well done! I hope the washing line poles ate now firmly cemented in place.

Enjoy relaxing in front f the TV. I'm going to read fanfic.

[wiseheart]

I think you more than deserved a bit of relaxing in front of the telly.

[yarnofariadne]

I hope you enjoy your well-deserved relaxation!

[badly_knitted]

It might be raining tomorrow so I decided to do as much as I could in the garden today. Spent 3.5 hours out there, and I;'m done in.

I cleared away the rest of the old compost bags and threw them in the dustbin. Has a brief freak out with very restrained scream when I realised I had a large black spider on the glove I was wearing. I must have managed to shake it off because it disappeared.

Broke up and bagged a lot of twigs I'd left lying around over the past few days because they were a bit damp on the outside. All dry now and ready to be used as kindling when needed.

Cleared all the fallen laurel leaves and berries off the path yet again. So much easier to do when everything's dry. Filled a bucket with them,

Shovelled the worst of the soil off 4 paving slabs and back onto the banking, then swept the rest up and chucked that up there as well. There were a lot of small branches buried in it so i threw those into the base of the hedge, then got up in the banking and trampled the soil down, breaking up the clods. I don't want it winding up back on the path.

I was going to stop then, but instead I started moving the logs off the lawn. They shouldn't have been left there all winter, they're muddy, wet, covered in woodlice, and most of them had at least one of the black spiders in residence so I had to be careful picking them up. Stacked them on the [path behind the small shed, where they'll be out of the way for now and have a better chance of drying. Hopefully I avoided squashing any of the spiders. I was as careful as I could be with the stacking.

There are still a couple of paving slabs that are buried under soil, plus the steps up at the end of the path, and that whole length if path will have to have the slabs taken up and re-laid because they's all tilting in different directions thanks to the conifer roots underneath, but re-doing the path can wait until the conifer is gone.,

I'm going to hurt tomorrow. Some of the logs were huge.

[wiseheart]

I think a good, long soaking in the hot tub would be in order - unless it's as hot over there as it is here.

[badly_knitted]

It's not hot here, but the fire is out so there's no hot water and I'd have to put the water heater on for about three hours to get enough hot water for a bath. With the price of electricity skyrocketing, that's not an option, so no hot bath for me.

[wiseheart]

That is a shame. :(

[badly_knitted]

Too tired anyway. I wouldn't want to fall asleep in the bath.

[darkcedars]

Oh my goodness, that's so much! Hope tomorrow is a rest day, regardless of rain.

[badly_knitted]

It it doesn't rain there are still things to do outside so I might potter, if I can move. Otherwise, maybe some crafting or I might dig out some books I want to get rid of.

[yarnofariadne]

I hope you aren't too achey tomorrow!

[badly_knitted]

Thanks, I just hope I can move tomorrow. The aches are unavoidable at my age.

[wiseheart]

It wasn't my day crafting-wise.

I wanted to do the other half of the Velcro job today, so that the match-the-colour page would be out of my hair. Yet after two pieces my fingers hurt so much that I had to stop. So I decided to work a bit on the seaming of two already finished pages that I had stitched together a week or so ago. Unfortunately, I pinned down the seam the wrong way - and my English truly isn't good enough to explain what the problem was, I'm sorry - so I had to undo the one measly side that I managed to seam in its entirety.

At that point I gave up. It is too hot for so much stress, and I've already wasted more than an hour, managed to make nice, even stitches for a change... tearing them out was very frustrating.

[darkcedars]

Very frustrating! Definitely time to stop, when more than one thing goes wrong.

[wiseheart]

My thoughts exactly.

[badly_knitted]

Ouch! Better rest your poor fingers for a day or two.

How annoying for you, especially since you'd managed even stitches =(

[wiseheart]

Which happens so rarely anyway!

[yarnofariadne]

I'm sorry you had such a stressful day. I hope tomorrow is better!

[wiseheart]

Depends. Tomorrow is cleaning day, so...

[yarnofariadne]

Spent a good few hours working on the scarf while listening to some video lectures!

[badly_knitted]

Yay! Hope it goes right this time with no dropped stitches!

[wiseheart]

Go you!

[darkcedars]

Nice, sounds relaxing.

[celli]

I have been working on my art project and my class project the last few days. I'm doing a woven wheel stitch for the class project, and it's a fairly big one so it's just chomping through my thread. Fortunately I picked something I had a lot of!

[badly_knitted]

That looks very effective! Hope you don't run out of thread though.

[darkcedars]

Wow, that's a definite thread eater.