Check-In Post November 2nd 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]

The only thing I've done today is release the meeces and mini meeces from their bags and pack them into a box. Well, that and some writing. Conserving my energy for going out on Friday.

[darkcedars]

Energy conservation is important.

[badly_knitted]

Definitely is for me. Cleaning out the fire and shovelling coal twice a day takes most of what I've got.

[darkcedars]

That is a lot of energy needed!

[badly_knitted]

It really does take a lot out of me, but it has to be done if I don't want to freeze.

[wiseheart]

When I hear that, I'm embarrassed about the luxury of central heating.

[badly_knitted]

The fire runs my central heating and provides my hot water, so it sucks, but it's the system my dad had put in when I was a kid and I can't afford to have everything ripped out and replaced so I'm stuck with it.

[yarnofariadne]

Energy conservation is definitely important!

[badly_knitted]

I shall be conserving it all day today. I have so little that I have to be careful, Halloween took a lot out of me.

[darkcedars]

I did a second coat of sealing primer on about 2/3rds of the large dresser base. On Monday I had my husband help set up space in the garage to work on the refinishing project. We took the hardware off of both of the dressers and I did that first coat. Still haven't touched the drawers.

The large dresser smells inside. Mostly like decades of scented carpet powder, but also while I was leaning into it, grape Fun Dip candy powder? Very odd. So Kilz sealing primer on the inside. It's a cheaply made dresser and mostly masonite and press board, with some real wood on the front and top. Real wood bits will be sanded and stained.

The closest I got to crochet in the last couple days is looking at patterns.

[badly_knitted]

That sounds like a pretty big project! Good luck with it, I hope you can get rid of the smell!

Also hope you'll have time to crochet before long. Have you found a pattern you like yet?

[darkcedars]

I am sure the primer will work. Just also the drawers need done.

I think I'll do a doily out of this old Magic Crochet booklet. Though I really should make more swirl hearts.

[badly_knitted]

You can do the doily and then do more hearts.

Sounds like a good and useful primer.

[yarnofariadne]

Good luck getting the smell out of the dresser!

[darkcedars]

I went and looked at it a bit ago. Stuck my head inside, can't smell any of the gross perfumey stuff. Even the primer almost has no smell. So all good!

[yarnofariadne]

Excellent news!!

[badly_knitted]

Yay! That's great news!

[sister_raphael]

Nothing further done. Getting the house into some sort of shape while preparing for a festival and completing things needed and finding storage for everything while preparing for a house-sitter (securing valuables and making room for their stuff when I don't have a guest bedroom) is nothing short of a Herculean task. The nails I needed for finishing off chest fittings don't seem long enough, so that's at a stand still.

[badly_knitted]

Sounds like you've got a lot on your plate! The shield -is looking great though.

[sister_raphael]

Getting there!

[darkcedars]

Good luck with all that associated festival prep. That shield looks good!

[sister_raphael]

Thanks! Lots to do!