Check-In Post January 7th 2023

[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]

Still no knitting, but I did get a fair amount of writing done, plus a load of laundry, and the coal house is almost ready for a fresh load of coal. I have a day and a half to finish the job so I should get it done before the delivery. It's been raining a lot lately so the new coal is going to be very wet. Also very expensive *sigh*

[wiseheart]

I was fairly successful today. All nine planets of the solar system are cut out and fixed to the page base - including Pluto. Yes, I know that the poor ball of frozen rock has officially been degraded into planetoid status, but when I went to school it counted as a planet, and I'm not the kind of person who'd turn my back on old acquaintances, just because they've lost their former status. In my book Pluto remains a planet. So there!

Seven of the nine planets are sewn on, although some colouring is still to be done. I've dug out an astronomy book for dummies and checked the colour schemata, so I hope it will match, at least roughly. I intend to finish this page somewhen next week, even though for tomorrow a big kitchen experiment is planned, and for Monday the usual cleaning frenzy is scheduled. We'll see.

[wiseheart]

Oh, poor you! Or, as the Dwarves would say: Strength to you, sister!

[darkcedars]

Gah, of course. At least you made the progress on your part though.

[darkcedars]

Or you could see it as gaining more friends (the additional dwarf planets). Ha! I like Haumea, it is an oval.

[darkcedars]

Just working on the other half of the cardi.

Went to John's a bit after 9 and found he was trapped on the balcony. He was throwing down ruined furniture, something had bounced and hit the ladder. Good news is a bunch of neighborhood helpers got piles outside the house and a whole room inside clear.

[badly_knitted]

Thank you (and the Dwarves!) I am battling on as best I can.

[badly_knitted]

Yay, planets! And so kind of you to let Pluto remain part of the family. I can't think of it as anything but a planet. Good luck with the colouring!

[badly_knitted]

I will have plenty of dry coal and will bring buckets of wet coal in to dry out in necessary until what's in the coal house becomes usable. I've done it before.

[wiseheart]

But I don't have more free space on the page base!

[badly_knitted]

That cardi seems to be coming along fast!

Good thing you came along to rescue John! Also nice to hear other neighbours are helping him clear the house.

[wiseheart]

That poor man really has a string of bad luck! Thank God for the neighbourhood helpers.

[wiseheart]

I am stubbornly loyal to my friends!

[badly_knitted]

One of your many great qualities =)

[darkcedars]

I helped a little then went to hear water for tea and cocoa. Very glad more able people arrived, I can't help super long.

[darkcedars]

It is dark and I'm wondering if I should double check he's not stuck up there again...he does have a phone...

[spiralicious]

I did more today than I realized. I was going to complain I got nothing done because I accidentally slept all day again (which I technically needed), but I helped my mother put away the holiday decorations and showed her how to make a phone call on her new phone (she got bored and set it up herself apparently).

The decorations were a big deal because over 40 bulbs have had to be repaired on our new to us tree and Mom was absolutely determined on condensing the boxes of stuff, inventory, label them, and make little numbered index cards of the contents of said boxes, which she did. My part was mostly double checking the cards against the boxes, showing her how to take the tree apart, and undecorating the entertainment center.

And today's stitch and stream was actually stich and Sven. It was Svengoolie night (cheesy horror host show) and they showed The Raven (1963), staring Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, Boris Karloff, and a very young Jack Nicholson. The scarf is now a little over 11 inches long.

[spiralicious]

Sounds like you got a lot done. Sorry the new coal is going to be very wet (and expensive).

[spiralicious]

Nice work! Pluto shall always be a planet!

[spiralicious]

Way to go on the cardi.

Good to hear other neighbors are helping him. He's also lucky you found him.

[badly_knitted]

Sounds like you've been very busy indeed!

Yay for your mum sorting her phone out!

Love Vincent Price movies!

The scarf is coming along well.

[badly_knitted]

Coal has to be stored outside sat the coal yards, so wet is inevitable. Expensive is just a sigh of the times, unfortunately.

[badly_knitted]

You're doing what you can, and I'm sure John appreciates that.

[wiseheart]

Flatterer! :)

[wiseheart]

Yesss!

[wiseheart]

Your mum sounds like a well-organized person! :)

[badly_knitted]

❤️😊

[spiralicious]

She really is