Check-In Post October 16th 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]

10 more meeces have their brooch backs attached, and the 10 from yesterday now have tails!


I also got outside for a little while to work on the hedge. I'm making progress, but it's going to take a while. First I need to cut it away from the house, then reduce its height.

[darkcedars]

Meece hooray and glad there is hedge progress.

[badly_knitted]

Progress all around!

[wiseheart]

Your meeces will take over the world!

[badly_knitted]

They'd probably do a better job of running the world than people are.

[yarnofariadne]

Hooray for meece and hedge progress!

[badly_knitted]

Thank you! I was hoping I might be able to work on the hedge again tomorrow, but it's pouring with rain right now so everything might be too wet.

[sister_raphael]

Oh well done! Powering through it all!

[badly_knitted]

Trying to... I need to go out this week and pick up a few more things for Halloween though.

[peaceful_sands]

It sounds like you are doing well.

[badly_knitted]

I still have another 15 to put brooches on, but only 11 brooch backs until the ones I've ordered arrive. With luck I'll get them all done before Halloween, but I doubt I'll get much done today because I was out all morning.

[darkcedars]

Started the plaster this morning, ran out. I'd told husband there wasn't enough and "no we have tons!" I barely did half. He made a pickup order for a larger size at the hardware store and brought it on his lunch.

I'm having a cup of tea and then will do the rest. Not beating myself up too much about how perfect it has to be. It will be sanded a touch before painting anyway. I am not a professional. Also no matter what I do it will still be an improvement!

Also I found this huge hat pin stuck in a gap of the door trim. There are a ton of coat hooks in this area and the house was built in 1900.

[wiseheart]

That is one impressive hat pin! You ought to create something out of it one day.

[darkcedars]

We have a little pile of "things found around the house" and should definitely display them one day.

[badly_knitted]

Well, at least he fetched more so you could continue! Good luck on finishing.

Wow, that hatpin looks lethal!

[darkcedars]

In general I have better spatial skills and better ability to read the packet. I'm very glad he would make the supply run. The weather went from "too hot to plaster" to "it's going to hard freeze in a couple days."

[badly_knitted]

Don't you just love autumn weather? It's supposed to be 14C tonight, 6C tomorrow night. *sigh*

[darkcedars]

It's set for -5C on Tuesday. :/

[badly_knitted]

Yikes! That does not sound like fun. Where I am, we don't usually get temperatures like that until December / January, and then not every night.

[darkcedars]

It won't do it every night here either, but freeze nights pop up here and there. Then Thursday it will be 80F again.

[badly_knitted]

Your weather is weirder than mine!

[yarnofariadne]

Good luck with the rest of the plaster!

That hat pin is so cool.

[darkcedars]

It went decently, I'm happy with it. There's a wall upstairs that needs work, it will be so much easier than overhead!

[darkcedars]

going to reply to my own post, I am finished, it went okay! Doing this over stairs wasn't my favorite. There were a couple places it was easier to glob it on with my hand and then run the tool over it.

[badly_knitted]

Looks like you've done a really good job there, but yeah, working over stairs would not be fun.

[sister_raphael]

Wow! Amazing!
(Not for the first time am I really glad that this craft group encourages these kind of posts which are, strictly speaking, not craft. Oh wait, yes they are. That it craftmanship!!) :)

[darkcedars]

I'm looking at it this morning while drinking coffee and am even more pleased with how it turned out. Though I do see a couple small spots I need to fix up. There was so much damage in this one area I missed a couple less obvious bits.

[wiseheart]

Congratulations to getting it done!

[sister_raphael]

That is seriously cool!

[peaceful_sands]

Well done on your plastering. I have to say that hat pin looks positively lethal! A secret weapon of some kind! *grin*

[wiseheart]

Finally some craftiness! I've cut out the 'toppings' for the cupcakes - all 24 of them, since they are supposed to be double layered, all of the size of my thumbprint - temporarily fixed them to the cupcakes with double-sided tape and fixed the cupcakes to the page base. Now I have a general idea what the page will look like when finished. Until then, I 'only' have to sew on 78 beads (assuming I counted them together correctly in my head), 24 pieces of Velcro, cut out and sew on the numbers from 1-12 (very, very tiny ones - what a delight for my sausage fingers!) and finally put the whole thing together. That will be fun!

I'm also entertaining the idea of taking the coward's way and skip the proper binding of the planned transportation-themed quiet book. After all, the pages are made of solid felt, not of cloth, so edging them with blanket stitch ought to do the trick, too. I'll still have to do the spine of the book, but that's considerably less work. We'll see.

Oh, and the iPad mini has finally returned. Right now, it seems to be willing to connect to the Internet, so I'll have to take the promised photos tomorrow, before it changes its mind again. It's old, and there are lots of websites it refuses to connect to - since their move, DW is one of those. *sigh* So yeah, a new one will be inevitable at some point.

[badly_knitted]

That's a lot of fiddly crafting done!

I hope the transport themed quiet books goes smoothly.

Yay for the return of the iPad mini, and I hope it will let you take photos. Good luck getting a replacement.

[wiseheart]

With the emphasis on "fiddly", I'm afraid...

[badly_knitted]

I know what that's like *frowns at mini meeces*

[yarnofariadne]

That sounds like a lot of progress, well done!

[wiseheart]

Thanks. It's really fussy work, and still in the early phases, but progress is progress.

[darkcedars]

I *may* have giggled in horror when you said how tiny those pieces are. Blanket stitch on felt sounds like a good compromise. And best wishes for the iPad cooperation!

[wiseheart]

Thanks. Pics are coming up in the next check-in.

[sister_raphael]

Gosh you really are a hive of activity!

[peaceful_sands]

Well done for your progress on the quiet books. The frustrations of technology - you have my sympathy. My Ipad (now about 8 years old so positively vintage!) seems to be getting very hot and crashing a lot when in use, so like you I'm presuming it's going to need replacing at some point *sigh*

[sister_raphael]

I've done a few more buttonholes on my navy silk kirtle and have about 12 more to do down the front.

[badly_knitted]

Well done! I know you find buttonholes tedious, but you're getting there!

[darkcedars]

So many! Are they tiny too?

[peaceful_sands]

Well done - it will be worth it!