Check-In Post July 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!

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[badly_knitted]

More pottering outside. When my friend came over to do the shopping I got him to take the loppers to the thickest bits of hedge that I couldn't manage, so I've been stripping the 6 foot plus privet branches of leaves and side twigs. The woody twigs will be stacked and left to dry for use as kindling and firewood. The thickest ones are nearly an inch across.

The hedge is no longer growing through the conifer, so that's another step forwards.

[wiseheart]

I've got a stressful day, so not much happened in the creative area. I've cut out about a dozen faces for the Christmas felt project, but that was it, basically. Not even a crossword puzzle could be squeezed in-between the housewife-y activities. But I have high hopes for tomorrow.

[yarnofariadne]

I did a few more rows on the scarf but it's too hot to be knitting. Honestly since finishing the first editing pass on the novel I haven't been doing much at all except letting my brain recharge: watching movies, playing video games. Since messing up on the scarf I've been wary of doing anything while knitting, but I think I'm getting enough of a hang of it that I might pick it up if I watch another movie tomorrow. We shall see!

[smallhobbit]

I finished the cross stitch card for our anniversary, so will put it to one side until it's needed.

[readera]

I bound off other last piece of my partner's robe that I've been working on! I still have to block them & seam them together. I'm excited to be finishing it. My partner is looking forward to it too despite the heat wave we're in. 😀

I have a cotton washcloth on the needles, to have something to knit on.

[sister_raphael]

Home from the medieval festival and here's a link to a photo of a knight wearing three of the things I was working on the last weeks- the blue wool mantle, the silver circlet and the shield I painted. It looked really colourful on the field. A slew of posts and a few photos to come. On Sunday I'm off to do an advanced manuscript illumination course and I'm pretty excited about that!

https://sister-raphael.dreamwidth.org/file/16196.jpg