Check-In Post January 20th 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]

Didn't get as much done as I hoped thanks to ongoing radiator problems. Still, the five newest not-so-mini meeces now have brooch backs attached and tails. I still have another 8 of the previous batch waiting for tails. I'll get there eventually.

[wiseheart]

Sorry to hear about the radiator problems. That's so annoying! Still, you've done well under the circumstances. Go you!

[badly_knitted]

A lot of the day ended up wasted with me running around in circles and moving stuff, and waiting for someone to call me back who never did.

[darkcedars]

Oh no, not heating related problems.

[badly_knitted]

Yep! I have one radiator that is just not heating up. There must be a blockage, but the heating engineer I called said he was driving and would call me back in a bit. e never did, so I wasted over an hour waiting, by which time it was too late to call anyone else. I am NOT pleased. I will now have to call someone on the weekend, which will be more expensive.

[smallhobbit]

Eight meeces are waiting for their tail
Which have been delayed due to BK's loud wail
The radiator sucked
Its duty it's ducked
Much hard work will no doubt now entail

[badly_knitted]

That's about the size of it *sigh*

(Although I've done the last 8 tails now).

[spiralicious]

Sorry about the radiator problem, but yay for meeces progress!

[badly_knitted]

The radiator seems to be behaving better at present, fingers crossed.

[wiseheart]

I stared with the inner binding of the quiet book and managed to do 1/4 of the work, which is a great relief. Even though my fingers are a bit ruined again, and in some places I had to push the needle through with the help of the desktop and to pull it out with a pair of pliers. Ugh, I can't wait to be done with this phase entirely!

[darkcedars]

I'm not surprised that they are sore! Congrats on getting through so much of it.

[wiseheart]

Thanks. It's only 4 pages, but they are really thick and hard, with many layers, plus the cross-grain ribbon, so yeah, it's slave labour.

[badly_knitted]

That's great progress! Sorry about your fingers though =(

[wiseheart]

They're getting used to it, the poor things. I think part of the problem is that I found really good, hard felt this time, which is good for durability but torture for the fingers.

[badly_knitted]

That's always the trouble. The strong high quality stuff is harder to sew on the soft stuff, but you need durability for a quiet book.

[smallhobbit]

Yay, it's coming along!

[wiseheart]

God, I hope so! I'm looking forward to work with paper for a while.

[spiralicious]

*\o/*

[darkcedars]

The yarn to continue my cardigan arrives tomorrow, so I am just working on more scrap type projects. I didn't want to get into starting another thing.

Also today I made myself mend a shirt (less bad one, seams under the arms were weak). I have one more shirt on the mending pile at the moment, another I've decided to cut up for rags.

[badly_knitted]

Mending is a good thing to do while waiting for supplies to continue a project. I have some I need to do, if I ever get around to it.

[darkcedars]

One of the shirts is my "wear over other clothes while painting/messy tasks" so even though it needs a big patch, I think it's worth it. Less paint on other clothes.

[badly_knitted]

I've got a shirt like that I wear when I'm cleaning out the fire. Actually I have three, picked up from the sale rail in charity shops. Men's shirts big enough to cover and protect my clothes.

[smallhobbit]

Well done with the mending. It makes sense not to start something new when your yarn is almost with you.

[darkcedars]

It's a good time to make myself catch up this chore.

[wiseheart]

Small tasks are good to bridge over the gap between two phases of a certain project.

[darkcedars]

It's been too long since I have done any sewing. Mending shirts first then quilts later.

[spiralicious]

Nice

[althea_valara]

Working on the amigurumi for snowflake_challenge. It's pretty big, though, so I doubt I'll finish today, but that's okay. So far I have one of the pieces done, but there's quite a bit left.

I had to buy yarn for it, which I might have not done if I hadn't gotten a gift card to Hobby Lobby for Christmas. I prefer not to give HL my money, but hey, this is other people's money, so might as well use the card. So I picked up a skein of turquoise acrylic. I have all the other colors needed in stash. Alas, they didn't have the safety eyes I needed but I can make do by crocheting eyes with floss - I have some black floss on hand.

The yarn section is very near the clearance section so I took a peek and fond a needle/wet felting book marked down dramatically. Regular price was 19.99, I got it for 1.99. SCORE! I've done some needle felting before - the library gave out kits for it - but it'll be fun to read a book on it.

[darkcedars]

What is it an ami of?

[althea_valara]

Carbuncle, a summon creature from the Final Fantasy video game series. This is the one I'm making:

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/final-fantasy-xiv-carbuncle

[wiseheart]

Oh, this is cute!

[badly_knitted]

Very cute!

[smallhobbit]

If someone's already bought the card it would be a waste not to use it and hooray for a real bargain!

[badly_knitted]

As Nine says, Fantastic! Great deal on the book, and great that you got the yarn. Good luck with completing the amigurami!

[spiralicious]

Excellent score

[smallhobbit]

Latest card finished:

[badly_knitted]

That's very pretty!

The alphabet charts are great for personalised birthday cards. I used to do them quite a lot.

[smallhobbit]

I had two books for Christmas with alphabet charts (I did say I'd like them) and I'm happily choosing ones to stitch.

[badly_knitted]

That's great! Most of mine are in cross stitch magazines.

[smallhobbit]

I have a number from magazines too. A bit before Christmas there was a sale of books at my favourite crafting books website and as I never know what to ask SM for I gave him a list!

[badly_knitted]

Excellent idea!

[darkcedars]

Oh that's great

[smallhobbit]

Thank you very much.

[spiralicious]

Very nice

[smallhobbit]

Thank you very much.