Check-In Post July 7th 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]

We're getting some warmer weather, which is nice. I played tug-of-war with the rose, cutting through three of the massive branches with my loppers, then pulling them down off the conifer. They put up a good fight but I eventually won, even though I think my arms are now about 6 inches longer than they were. Good thing I have some heavy duty gloves, I wouldn't want to try grabbing very thorny inch thick rose stems and pulling on them with bare hands.

Once I got the branches down, I sat in the shade and chopped everything up into bits. There's another week before the garden waste bin gets emptied and it's already at three-quarters full. Chopping stuff up means I get more in.

Anyway, I think there actually looks less rose draped over the conifer than there was. Still 6 or 7 more branches to cut down, but I'm getting there.

[wiseheart]

Go you! The roses have no chance against your determination!

[badly_knitted]

Hopefully I'll be able to continue tomorrow. Once the rose is under control I can book the guys to cut the conifer and the laurel down. The sooner the better, I just really want them gone now.

[smallhobbit]

Bye bye rosie, rosie goodbye!

[badly_knitted]

It's heading that way... Still a lot of it left though.

[wiseheart]

I've finally finished the umbrella page! It isn't as neat as the original I saw on YouTube, since I don't have the skills *or* the nifty tools of Sviatlana Balybina, and the beads are too large for the pattern, but those were the smallest ones I could get. Therefore the I couldn't make the cords as taut as I'd have liked, but they'll have to do. I took great effort to secure them, so that the kid won't be able to pry them off and - God beware - eat the beads, and I think I've succeeded. I've stitched the page together with the correspondent one (the match-the-colour teacups) and will start seaming them tomorrow. Then the time of the dreaded book binding will come...

[badly_knitted]

You've been working hard, well done with your progress! Good luck with the seaming!

[wiseheart]

Thanks, I'll need it. That's the tricky part.

[smallhobbit]

That's great - you must be very pleased.

[wiseheart]

Cautiously optimistic would be the right expression. Pleasure will come when I've survived the seaming and book-binding once again. ;)

[smallhobbit]

I finished my cross stitch of Tenby harbour:

[wiseheart]

Oh, this is stunning. How big is the picture?

[smallhobbit]

Thank you very much. It's 6" hoop, so 15cm.

[badly_knitted]

Woohoo, well done! It's lovely!

[smallhobbit]

Thank you.

[celli]

I worked a tiny bit on my Schitt's Creek cross-stitch and am trying to pick a new kpop pattern to start!

[badly_knitted]

Choosing new projects is always fun!

[wiseheart]

Until you've started and suddenly realize how much work they contain. *g*

[badly_knitted]

Shhhh, don't put people off ;)

[wiseheart]

That wasn't my intention. I just had that sort of realization today, and it apparently stuck. ;)

[badly_knitted]

Well, it's true, shiny new projects are usually exciting when you start them, but then if you're anything like me, you want them finished so you can start the next shiny new project...

[wiseheart]

Exactly! Life is too short, and there are so many things to try out!

[badly_knitted]

I wish I was younger with more time ahead of me for all the things I want to do. I wasted too much time in my younger years.

[wiseheart]

Yeah, me, too - with that pesky thing called "work".

[badly_knitted]

Or just life.