Check-In Post September 2nd 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

[wiseheart]

I've worked on my little angel felts today. Folded and stitched together the grey bodies, sewed on the hangings and the silver wings, applied 4 tiny, star-shaped sequins in the form of a tiara to all 8 heads, made the eyes and even stitched together 7 out of 8 heads. Now if I could only find a good way to sew on the heads without them sticking out in an odd angle! I'll have to try various methods tomorrow.

[badly_knitted]

You've made great progress! Hope you solve the head problem without too much trouble.

[ripplestitch]

My goodness you seem to be very busy, looking over the last several check ins. May I ask what it is you're making? it sounds like a mammoth project overall.

[wiseheart]

Actually, I'm just trying to find ways to use up all the little rests from my big projects (= the 3 quiet books I made this summer). But should we really manage to have our pre-Christmas charity fair at the school where I used to work before my retirement this year, I'll have lots of items to sell. *fingers crossed*

[spiralicious]

Wow, you are making great progress. Hopefully the head situation will be an easy fix.

[darkcedars]

Good progress, good luck on the heads!

[badly_knitted]

Despite some rain shower, I managed to et out into the garden for a bit, but I'd already done the easy part so I spent most of my time wedged between the hedge and trunk of the plum tree under the holly and another shrub, clearing straggly holly branches, ivy, and brambles. Not the most comfortable place to work, and there's still some ivy under there. Will the rain hold off long enough tomorrow for me to clear the rest? Probably not. Oh well.

[spiralicious]

You have battled well today.

[badly_knitted]

Thanks. And I have the war wounds to prove it!

[wiseheart]

Poor you! *sends good healing vibes*

[badly_knitted]

It's only a few scratches and prickles, I've had far worse from gardening.

[ripplestitch]

I am very impressed at your dedication tbh. We really need to get to our garden to deal with the grass we let grow wild before winter sets in and it gets too cold to clean it up, but it's been either too hot or too cold or too wet. brrr.

[badly_knitted]

British weather *grins* We should be used to it, but it's always too much of something.

I'm going to hurt tomorrow from all the bending and crouching. I'm getting too old for it.

[darkcedars]

This does not sound like much fun. I hate being wedged in because you have to back out with your armload of pulled up stuff.

[badly_knitted]

I had my buckets under there with me to chop stuff into, so I was just wedged in for half an hour at a time. It wasn't comfortable and I'll hurt tomorrow, but there's no other way to get at the ivy. It still needs removing from the hedge as well.

[darkcedars]

Oh no, in the hedge too? I cut volunteer saplings out of mine but that's not ivy.

[badly_knitted]

Ivy is not easy to eradicate, but I'll just have to keep working at it.

[spiralicious]

I haven't really done anything yet today, but it's foreign film night at the library so I don't want to forget about it.

Yesterday, my nephew came over to drop something off for my mom/his grandmother and he saw me knitting. He asked, "Since when do you knit?"

I said, "About three days now."

He looked so confused, lol.

I also managed to successfully get a post up on Instagram for the 100 Days of Halloween Happy challenge. Woohoo!

When I get back from the library, I hope to do today's challenge for the September Stampede at bitesizedcleaning and see if I can figure out how to purl.

[darkcedars]

Ha, does he not think that "old" people can learn new things, only little kids? Have fun at the library.

[spiralicious]

Lol, it's probably something like that.

Thanks :)

[badly_knitted]

Tell your nephew people can learn to knit at any age, lol. There are no restrictions.

Well done for posting, and good luck with purling!

[spiralicious]

I will! And if that doesn't work, I'll just tell him it's mandatory now that I am going to be a great aunt. (I just found out one of my nieces is going to have a baby. Still wrapping my head around that one.)

Thanks!

[badly_knitted]

Lay down the law!

Congratulations to your niece, and to you!

[spiralicious]

:D

Thanks:)

[wiseheart]

It is healthy for the young ones to realize that we oldies aren't incapable of learning new things.

[spiralicious]

Indeed!

[ripplestitch]

Today I ordered yarn for a third blanket (for my wheelchair) which I'll work on whenever I get fed up of the repetition of the other two blankets I'm currently working on. They're all very good tv knitting so it should be easy to switch between them but it does mean they get to be a bit of a drag if I can't switch it up.

The yarn for the one I was in the middle of has been shipped though, so it will probably arrive tomorrow so I can get that one set up. In the meantime I've been knitting up log cabin squares in Noro Kureyon and watching Dimension 20 between doing chores around the house. Think I'm going to do a little digital art before bed.

A good day overall! My post-covid cough is nearly gone, too, so I'm hoping in a few days I'll feel well enough to change up the chore:knitting ratio a little more in favour of chores. We've been keeping the house from getting unhygenic while in recovery but it could do with a real going over. You know you've been sick for too long when you're excited to put some elbow grease into it.

[darkcedars]

Glad you're doing better!

[ripplestitch]

Thanks!

[badly_knitted]

Three on the go should keep you from getting fed up with any of them. Variety is a good thing.

Glad to hear you're almost recovered from covid. Just don't overdo it and tire yourself too much.

[wiseheart]

Post-covid cough is really unpleasant. I wish you a swift and complete recovery - and lots of fun with crafting and cleaning (is the latter even possible?).

[darkcedars]

I worked in the flowerbed off and on today. Dug down carefully around two of the roses to break up the clay, spread a thick layer of the new topsoil and mixed it in. I'm about 1/3 of the way done with the main flowerbed.

There were hyacinth and tulip bulbs in this area, so I dug them up before I spread the new dirt. Of course, I managed to split all 3 of the flame orange, double tulip bulbs with my trowel. Hopefully one will make it.

I think I will read this evening and give my hands a rest.

[badly_knitted]

That sounds like hard work! Sad about the bulbs though, I hope they'll survive!

Your hands will no doubt appreciate a rest.

[wiseheart]

Shame about the split bulbs - but perhaps they'll survive. *fingers crossed*

[sister_raphael]

Just sewing the armholes on the pink kirtle and cooking fennel pottage since it's a rainy day.

[badly_knitted]

Rainy days are perfect for crafting and cooking. Not sure what fennel pottage is though...

[sister_raphael]

According to medieval cooking, pottage is anything cooked... in a pot. So, stews, porridge, anything chunky or thicker than a soup, counts. It's very easy and delicious. Get as much fennel as you want, cut the whole thing up, add water, pepper if you like, onion can be added (but it's nice with just fennel) and cook until soft. Mash it up. Voila, pottage. The medieval recipe says to add almond milk, saffron and cinnamon, but hmmmmm.

[badly_knitted]

I'm always learning something new from you!

I've grown fennel as ornamental foliage, but I don't think I've ever eaten any.

[wiseheart]

You never work on just one thing, do you? ;)

[sister_raphael]

Sometimes I really need to think about things, and keeping busy on another project helps.