Check-In Post September 21st 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.


If anyone has any questions of their own about the community, or suggestions for tags, questions to be asked on the check-in posts, or if anyone is interested in playing check-in host for a week here on the community, which would entail putting up the daily check-in posts and responding to comments, go to the Questions & Suggestions post and leave a comment.

I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[badly_knitted]

Stuck with a stupid headache this evening, which I could do without. I did get out in the garden for about an hour and a half this afternoon though. Nothing thrilling going on, just sorting through one of my piles of dead wood, breaking up whatever was dry enough for use on the fire when I eventually light it. If it snaps easily, it's usable, if not it gets shifted to another pile. I got a good sackful of wood for use, then cleared some brambles that were growing again, plus some ivy.
No cleaning up of html coding today, just a final check on what I was working on yesterday before replacing the old code. The list looks so much better now, all entries the same size and evenly spaced. I hated the way it looked before so it was well worth the effort.

[smallhobbit]

Hope the headache departs rapidly! Getting firewood is very useful.

[badly_knitted]

Thanks, I hope so too. Got a lot of spook_me writing to do.

The hardest part is waiting for it to get dry enough.

[smallhobbit]

I think I've written about 300 words (over 3 days) for mine! So there's plenty more to do.

[badly_knitted]

You can do it! We both can. I just don't know how to deal with my first critter. It's seriously malevolent and killing people o_O I'll have to keep writing until a solution pops up.

[wiseheart]

Nothing feels better than a job done to your own satisfaction. I hope the headache will go away, soon.

[badly_knitted]

It already seems to have improved a bit, thankfully, but I need to get to bed. Can't yet though, I still have things I need to do.

[celli]

Oh, I'm so sorry about your head, I hate that :(

[badly_knitted]

Thanks. Headaches are never fun, but thankfully there's no headache this morning.

[yarnofariadne]

I hope the headache subsides ♥

[badly_knitted]

It has, thankfully =)

[smallhobbit]

Had a crafting afternoon - we were creating mosaics out of small paper squares. I'll be doing a post to my journal in a few days time.

[badly_knitted]

That sounds interesting, I'll look forward to your post!

[wiseheart]

Mosaics are great - so many different possibilities! It's nice that you can try out all these different things.

[smallhobbit]

Yes, an afternoon of trying new crafts, good company and cake.

[yarnofariadne]

Ooh sounds lovely! I'll look forward to seeing the post.

[smallhobbit]

Thank you. I was pleased with the result.

The snowmen are finished

[wiseheart]

... but no picture yet, as the iPad mini is still at the neighbour's. I wonder when I'll get it back and whether it can be fixed at all or I'll have to buy a new one. I've already resigned to the latter, I'd just like to know which is the case and act accordingly.

The next craft project promises to be the Christmas-themed quiet book. It doesn't have an intended recipient yet, I just want to try out a few nice patterns that I saw on Pinterest and YouTube, respectively. Yesterday I already bought cross-grain ribbons in red, so the first step has been made. *g*

Of course, there's always the chance that I got distracted by some paper project, so nothing is set in stone yet.

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[badly_knitted]

Well done on finishing the snowmen!

I hope the mini can be saved. Replacing tech means having to get used to something new. I'm happy with my new laptop, but I still keep going to do things the way they worked on the old one and everything is in the wrong place so I get confused.

Good luck with the Christmas Quiet book, or whatever grabs your attention.

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[wiseheart]

Replacing tech is *evil*!

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[badly_knitted]

Agreed!

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[celli]

yay snowmen!

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[smallhobbit]

Looking forward to seeing the snowmen. Enjoy whatever you do next.

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[wiseheart]

I hope I will, yeah.

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[yarnofariadne]

Hooray for the snowmen! Fingers crossed for the iPad mini.

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[wiseheart]

Thanks. I hope I'll learn soon what to expect tech-wise.

[tielan]

Finished the backing, sandwiched the quilt, now to do the quilting over the next two days, binding on the weekend, hanging sleeve on Monday. TIME CRISIS!

[celli]

*pompoms*

[smallhobbit]

You can do it!

[yarnofariadne]

Best of luck!

[badly_knitted]

You've got it all planned out, you know exactly what you need to do, you've got this!

[wiseheart]

*joins the cheering crowd*

[celli]

I dug into my stash today because I have no clue where I put all my carefully purchased floss and came out with some stuff that might actually work better than my original plan! Cross your fingers!

[smallhobbit]

Here's hoping. Carefully purchased items always disappear when you want them.

[yarnofariadne]

Fingers crossed!

[badly_knitted]

*fingers crossed* Good luck, I hope it works!

[wiseheart]

Good luck!