Check-In Post October 20th 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

[wiseheart]

I was tired and didn't felt much like crafting, although I did sew on a few more elements to the cupcake page. But I've found a whole shoe box full of small, rectangular pieces of coloured tinfoil and tissue paper (saved packaging of individual sweets, clearly) and decided that it was time to make some more Christmas tree garlands. They are made of 'beads' that consists of hazelnut- or walnut-shaped balls of tissue paper, covered with tinfoil and stringed on cotton yarn or thin cord. I've made five different garlands by the time I ran out of the tissue paper, and the shoe box is still half full. *sigh* I'll have to look out for alternate filler material.

For those who are interested, this is what the things look like when on the tree already (picture from 2019, IIRC):

[badly_knitted]

Those garlands are pretty! It's a clever idea. Foil scraps are good for all sorts of things.

[wiseheart]

I've learned how to make them from our old landlady, back in Transylvania, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. Back then we didn't have anything *but* scraps of everything and had to be very creative indeed.

[badly_knitted]

People who don't have much are very creative!

[wiseheart]

That is what I keep telling myself while watching all those YouTube-ers and their wonderful tools and supplies with envy. *g*

[badly_knitted]

We don't need that fancy stuff, we're far more creative!

[darkcedars]

Oh interesting.

[wiseheart]

And a really easy craft. I used to make these with my pupils when I was still teaching.

[peaceful_sands]

They look really effective. Great idea for using up leftovers.

[wiseheart]

I'm always looking for ways to use up leftovers; having spent my early childhood in poverty made me hate waste.