Check-In Post July 1st 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

[wiseheart]

The Candy Princess quiet book is making good progress. I've made the page base for Page #7 and cut out assorted parts of the central motif (the mermaid). I hope to finish the whole page by the weekend, and then I'll have one more left before it comes to the dreaded book binding.

[badly_knitted]

You're doing really well! Hope the mermaid page doesn't have too much velcro.

[wiseheart]

No, it is completely Velcro-free. There was a part where I had to stitch through double-sided tape, but that's way easier than sewing Velcro.

[badly_knitted]

Oh yay! An easier sewing page!

[yarnofariadne]

It sounds like you're making great progress!

[wiseheart]

It went surprisingly well today. Of course, the really finicky work - the mermaid - is yet before me.

[badly_knitted]

There has been rain, so I stayed in. Just as I was shutting my computer down, the heavens opened, so I decided to dig out the books I wanted to get rid of. Opened the cupboard, where a lot of books are stashed — 11 boxes of books, to be exact. The books I was looking for were in the very last box, naturally. I did find some others that can go though, and dug out a few that I'd like to read again. Managed to reduce the number of boxes by one, I guess that's progress.

I did, however, find the rest of my knitting needles. I've got A LOT of knitting needles, all of my late mum's, all of my late aunt's, all the ones I've bought for myself, and a bunch I got cheap at a car boot sale, so I need to sort through them all, pair them up, and see if I really need all of them...

[wiseheart]

We always have more stuff than we really need. However, it has been my experience that whatever I'd managed to get rid of I ended up needing urgently not so long afterwards. ;)

[badly_knitted]

That does frequently happen. However, I knit only with metal needles and I have quite a few of the very old plastic pairs, so I might be able to get rid of them. If I tried to use them I'd probably snap them.

[yarnofariadne]

I've started exercising during the time I usually had set aside for knitting, which is good for me, I suppose, though I haven't made any progress on the scarf in a few days. This morning at my writing group's weekly meeting, one of the members shared the gorgeous crochet project they're working on and evangelised crochet to me a bit, so now I have some bookmarks to get me started in crochet eventually. With all the copious free time I apparently have 😂

[badly_knitted]

Oh dear, she's trying to get you hooked ;)

Exercising is definitely good, but knitting is exercise too, sort of *looks innocent*