Check-In Post September 4th 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]

Today's forecast was for thundery showers, but since they failed to materialise and it was actually dry, sunny, and warm, I managed to finish clearing around, under, and behind my little yew tree, and started work on getting the ivy out of that patch of hedge.

I was hampered at the start by a robin though. He was so bold I had to keep quite still so I wouldn't scare or harm him. He was less than a foot from my knees at one point (I was kneeling on my kneeling pad), and before that, when I was crawling around halfway under a yew branch, he was no more than 8 inches from my nose as he hopped about catching tiny insects. Robins are the bravest of British garden birds, but this one was fearless.

[wiseheart]

Too bad there was nobody to take a video. It must have been the cutest scene, ever.

[badly_knitted]

The robin was totally adorable, I just hope it will be careful with all the cats around.

[smallhobbit]

BK is being supervised by a robin
As she crawls about underneath the yew
He hops around a-watchin and a-bobbin
Wondering what's the next thing she will do

[badly_knitted]

I would dearly love to know what little Fearless thinks of me, lol!

[darkcedars]

And your robins are such tiny guys, I'd worry about losing track of where he was too.

[badly_knitted]

Amazingly camouflaged too. If you can't see the red breast, they just blend right in.

[wiseheart]

I was on kitchen duty today, so I took a break from crafting. Alas, my millionaire's slices turned out to be a total failure, but we'll eat them nonetheless. It's a good thing that I only made them for ourselves, not for any guests. I like my guests to get proper bakes, not such disasters.

[darkcedars]

They probably still taste good, even if not pretty or didn't set up quite right.

[wiseheart]

They weren't bad, but soggy shortbread isn't my idea of a well-made bake.

[badly_knitted]

I guess it wouldn't be.

Don't know if there will be a check in tonight. My computer stopped working. Trying to use old laptop but it barely functions. I'm freaking out, so scared. This is my contact with the outside world.

[badly_knitted]

Hopefully you'll be able to figure what went wrong and they'll work next time. It's a long time since I had those, so delicious!

[wiseheart]

I think I need to find a different method to make caramel.

[darkcedars]

Another chunk of flowerbed renovation this morning. It's a big L shape with 5 roses, I have finished 3/5. It wore me out a bit more than the other day. I have a couple appointments this week and unfairly, regular chores, so probably won't get to continue for a few days at least.

Just finished the last kitchen scrubby in the set. I may select some thread for making holiday cards after supper.

[badly_knitted]

You'll get the whole flower bed done eventually. Life does get in the way of other projects though.

Oooh, do you have the designs picked out?

[darkcedars]

Weeeeeeeeeelllllllllllllllll there are three I've been thinking about.

Shooting star I saw last year just after the holidays. I really like it, but it has a lot more rows than I usually do for a card. I have a couple of other thread projects I'd like to get done this fall, so probably best for next year.

The swirly heart motif that I made recently - that would make a completely different card (I usually make snowflakes) and I already know I like it.

Granny square Christmas tree - quick and easy, I think I will do this and add a couple beads and buttons if the heart doesn't look good in thread.

[badly_knitted]

They all sound lovely!

[tielan]

Finished a slip dress I was going to wear under a 1920s style "one hour" dress:


The chiffon for the 1920s style dress:


It was too cold for the night that I planned to wear it, so I haven't finished the chiffon (yet).

[badly_knitted]

The slip looks great, and so does the chiffon dress, even if it's not quite finished. I'm constantly amazed by your sewing skill!

[wiseheart]

That chiffon fabric is amazing. I'd never dare to work with it, out of fear that I'd ruin it. But again, unlike you, I'm not made for making clothing.