Check-In Post November 17th 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]

Ugh, what a day! It was as bad weatherwise as Halloween night, pouring rain all day, and it was the day I was having kiln-dried logs delivered for the fire. They arrived on an open lorry of course, standard delivery, so they were already wet when they were tipped into my driveway. Then they had to be moved by hand to where I store my firewood, and they're all sopping wet. Sogs rather than logs. So my friend and I were lugging armfuls of the sogs in the pouring rain, stacking them under cover, and they're way too wet to be used on the fire. It'll take forever for them to dry outside, especially stacked, but I need fuel for the fire. There was only one thing to do. Now I have 30 logs scattered around the living room, hall, and kitchen, drying off. Once those are dry, I'll have to switch around and bring more in to dry by the radiators. It's going to take a while. I just hope next time I need logs it won't be raining on delivery day. The rain soaked right through my coat and everything I had on underneath it.


Nevertheless, I managed to sew up and stuff 5 more mini meece bodies, and I knitted another mini pumpkin this evening.

[wiseheart]

Ugh, that sounds like just about every winter in the first 9 years of my life, when we still lived in Transylvania. *offers sympathies* How heroic of you to still having done some meeces and a pumpkin! Go you!

[badly_knitted]

Thank you! The delivery was this morning and my friend showed up to do my shopping just as the lorry was leaving so he helped me move all the logs first. Really hoping we get some dry weather for a bit, but it doesn't seem likely. I think it's mostly rain for the next couple of weeks so I'm going to be sharing the house with a lot of soggy logs. I'm really going to hurt tomorrow.

[yarnofariadne]

How awful :( well done getting some meece and a pumpkin done amidst all that!

[badly_knitted]

Thanks. It really wasn't fun. At least the sogs I brought indoors are slowly drying out.

[celli]

Oh, that sounds SO uncomfortable, ugh. :(

[badly_knitted]

Sure wasn't fun. =(

[tielan]

ACK THE RAIN. Hopefully the wood dries off swiftly and doesn't go mouldy? (I don't know how much of a concern this could be for you.)

Yay for making progress!

[badly_knitted]

Mould would not be good, I have allergies, but all I can do is bring logs in to dry then put them back out in dry storage. It's going to take a while, there are a LOT of logs, but I've got the second lot drying...

Thanks!

[wiseheart]

I finished the sealing ship page and started on the red helicopter one. Tomorrow, if there's enough natural light, I'll take a photo of the finished page.

[badly_knitted]

Well done for finishing another page and starting the next one! Sounds like things are going well!

[wiseheart]

For the moment, yes, as I had definite designs for the individual pages so far. That's going to change, soon, though. *sigh*

[badly_knitted]

Well, it's fun deciding what you're going to do, isn't it?

[wiseheart]

As long as I can come up with anything that actually works...

[badly_knitted]

I'm sure you'll succeed. You're not new to making quiet books.

[yarnofariadne]

Well done!

[wiseheart]

Thanks. :)

[celli]

yay!!!

[wiseheart]

It is indeed a relief.

[tielan]

I called them 'penny patch' blocks, but they're really 'postage stamp' blocks, because I can never remember the proper name for it:

Two more blocks sewn together this morning, from the already-sewn-together rows

[yarnofariadne]

Ooh that looks cool!

[tielan]

Thanks! It's a scrappy postage stamp quilt, made up of odds and sods of fabric from my collection, so very random and colourful.

[badly_knitted]

You're very busy! They look smaller than your usual blocks, which I guess is why they're postage stamp blocks. Lovely array of colours!

[tielan]

Luckily, I had the strips already cut and stored away; just need to sew them into blocks, which is pretty easy - "five strips, four seams" make a 'block' of 5x5, which I can then add to the piles of blocks and sew into a whole quilt when I have the time.

I'm just making time for it now, before I forget and get distracted onto something else. (So many distractions, so little time!)

[badly_knitted]

It's going to be a really cheerful and colourful quilt by the looks of it! Useful for using up leftover bits.

There are always so many other things to make, and never enough time.

[celli]

oh, nice!

[tielan]

Thank you!

[wiseheart]

They are very pretty. Do they have a purpose or are they purely there to please?

[tielan]

This quilt is being made 'just because'. It's a scrap quilt to try to 'use up' the excess fabric strips that I've been collecting over a dozen years of quilting. I've come to realise just how much fabric I have, and that I really do need to start using it up...

[wiseheart]

Oh, I see. It sounds like my Christmas cards and small felt ornaments: all done for using up remaining stuff.

[yarnofariadne]

I've had absolutely no focus today but I managed to get a few rows done!

[badly_knitted]

Well done for progress despite your lack of focus!

[celli]

*cheers*

[wiseheart]

Every little bit counts.

[tielan]

Even a couple of rows is good! *\o/*