Check-In Post August 13th 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]

I have no clue how many bags and boxes I've move or emptied today, but it was a lot, and I'm running out of places to put all the plant pots. I've left some on the drive with a sigh saying 'Help Yourself' (actually, it says 'Help Yourelf, because I accidentally missed the S out, but people will understand. Probably.) So far nobody's taken any. Wrong time of year I guess.

I think I've cleared or moved about two thirds of what's in there, and I only have one more day before it's due to rain... There's so much rubbish, and I'm worn out. According to the greenhouse thermometer, it was 90F in there. Not as bad as it could have been because there was a nice breeze today.

Posting early because I'll probably go to bed early.

[smallhobbit]

Clearly no elves want plant pots at the moment!

[badly_knitted]

No, it's very sad. No one wants to help their elfs. Poor elfs. =(

[smallhobbit]

I've dedicated my drabble_zone entry to you on their behalf!

[badly_knitted]

Aw, thanks! I'll go take a look!

[wiseheart]

Having a good night's rest is probably the sensible thing to do.

[badly_knitted]

I'm heading for bed in a few minutes. Keep almost nodding off.

[glinda]

A shortage of gardening elves!

[badly_knitted]

Apparently so. The pots and hanging baskets are still there. *sigh* And I have so many more, like hundreds of them o_O

[smallhobbit]

I currently have three small cross stitch projects on the go: one birthday card, a unicorn for mini Hobbit and a sloth for me. Not sure how that happened...

[badly_knitted]

Those sound fun projects! Embrace the variety. Did you know sloths can hold their breath for up to 40 minutes? I was looking for random trivia facts for a fic and came across that one.

[smallhobbit]

No, I didn't know that. I shall have to make use of it. They are also very good swimmers.

[badly_knitted]

Indeed they are, I've seen them on TV swimming rivers. Dolphins can only hold their breath for around 10 minutes, and they live in water. So crazy that sloths can go for so much longer.

[pensnest]

Well, now I know more about sloths than I would have expected! Also, a sloth cross-stitch project sounds like a noble and worthy venture. I look forward to seeing the result!

[badly_knitted]

Sloths are awesome in so many ways =)

I wonder if it's necessary to stitch sloths v-e-r-y slowly *grins*

[wiseheart]

Well, considering how slow they do things, they probably need to hold their breath a lot. *g*

[badly_knitted]

*grins*

[wiseheart]

I had a very housework-heavy day. Still, I managed to squeeze in some crafting while vegetating in front of the telly after all that. I've stitched together the white and black front panels of my penguins and equipped them with fairly oversized, shockingly orange beaks. Their feet will have the same colour; the trial piece actually looks very funny.

[badly_knitted]

Comedy penguins ftw!

Glad you got to relax a bit amid all the exhausting work.

[wiseheart]

So am I, TBH.

[glinda]

I keep forgetting to reply to these posts! (I was on a cross-stitch kick for a while there, but that seems to have run down again.) I’m a shawl kick at the moment. I got a couple of balls of wool in the January sales that are of the one ball makes a shawl and has a pattern on the ball band. I haven’t made the shawl on the band, but I did an online shawl shaping class during the first lockdown and made a bunch of mini shawls, so I’ve used two of the balls to make my favourite shapes from that class in full sized versions, and I’ve got a bit hooked on making shawls. I always used to be intimidated by anything resembling lacework because I always seemed to get my YOs in the wrong direction, but doing these simple shawls seems to have got the skill into my head properly.

So I’ve just started a new shawl from a proper pattern and it’s got a ‘mesh’ section and it’s coming out really well?! Shawls might be becoming my ‘thing’? Maybe?

I’m going to need to buy blocking boards aren’t I?

[badly_knitted]

Yay, shawls! (I've never made one, lol).

Sounds like you're getting good at shawl work, and have got the lacework knack now!

You might need to get blocking boards if you want to get your shawls into shape. I understand blocking is good for that...

[glinda]

I’m very new to it! It’s a totally new skill set and I’m very much not sure what I’m doing!

Normally I just block things on my ironing board but my latest shawl is just too big for that! I can only do half of it at a time and that’s…not ideal!

[badly_knitted]

You may not be entirely sure, but you're still doing it!

Hmm, yes, shawls are rather big for that =/