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.


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[badly_knitted]

It's been pouring rain most of the day, so there was no chance of gardening. Still, I did sew brooch backs on 10 meeces, and then did their tails. I've run out of brooches now though, got to wait for the ones I ordered to arrive before I can finish the last 5.


Tomorrow I'll need to start stitching the faces on the 50 mini meeces that are otherwise finished.

[darkcedars]

It's warmer today, so I went out in two sessions to do gardening.
-cut down all the giant marigolds
-finished picking up rocks in the north flower bed
-transplanted (and divided) a miniature hosta clump
-attempted to dig up the rootstock rose I thought I had successfully killed. I want this spot for something better. It is not only still alive, but when I dug down more than a foot the root is bigger around than my wrist.

I'm quite frustrated and it is going to take a heavier duty poison. I thought about getting an axe and just chopping it off as low as I wanted to dig, but I've heard of this rose coming back when you do that.

[wiseheart]

That's still a lot to do, so perhaps it isn't so bad that you've run out of brooches.

[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):

[wiseheart]

Some plants are maddeningly stubborn, aren't they?

[badly_knitted]

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

[darkcedars]

Sounds like good progress, and you've got plenty to do until the final brooches arrive.

[darkcedars]

Oh interesting.

[badly_knitted]

You're making great garden progress! That rose sounds like a menace, though. I hope you find something that works to finish it off.

[badly_knitted]

The new ones should arrive soon. I have other brooch ideas I'd like to try if I can figure them out. I need to create patterns though. I'd like to do felt bats, ghosts, and black cat heads, but I'm not good at drawing, lol!

[badly_knitted]

Never a shortage of things to do! I have to make sure everything else is ready for Halloween as well, not just the meeces.

[darkcedars]

I told the rose forum that I GUESS I can recommend Dr Huey as a rootstock in Kansas, it's indestructible.

[darkcedars]

My parents have a heavier duty brush killer at the farm. We are going to do that next. It's the nuclear option.

[darkcedars]

Some people here put up Halloween lights and I'm slightly jealous of those. I'd like to have purple Halloween lights!

[badly_knitted]

LOL!

[badly_knitted]

*fingers crossed*

[badly_knitted]

Oooh, that sounds cool! I only put my lights up on Halloween, but they're short strings that run on batteries.

[peaceful_sands]

Shame about the rain stopping your gardening but at least you were able to crack on with the meece. Good luck with the faces today.

[peaceful_sands]

Well done on all you did accomplish and good luck with finding a solution for the stubborn rose.

[peaceful_sands]

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

[peaceful_sands]

Continuing to work on the tapestry - dolphin is progressing well - it and the area I'm heading into are more tricky as lots of interspersing colours where only a few stitches are needed in one colour as opposed to the big bands of colour that made up the sky initially - a complete contrast but hopefully it will look effective when it all comes together. I'm a bit worried about my lack of having started on any Christmas gifts but at the moment I'm just sticking with what I can cope with and maybe it'll mean less people getting a made Christmas gift this year *sigh*

[badly_knitted]

You can only do what you feel up to, I'm sure people will understand. You've had a rough time of it, ex-specially recently. Well done with the tapestry progress!

[badly_knitted]

Thanks!

Rain will be stopping outdoor play again today; we have thundery showers forecast. Saturday I might get outside, but thundery showers again on Sunday. It's making up for the drought back in the summer *sigh*

[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.

[wiseheart]

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

[wiseheart]

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

[wiseheart]

I whole-heartedly agree with what's said above.
Also, hurrah for dolphin progress!

[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!