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get_knitted2023-02-07 09:36 pm
badly_knitted) wrote in get_knitted2023-02-07 09:36 pm
Check-In Post February 7th 2023
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.
If anyone has any questions of their own about the community, or suggestions for tags, questions to be asked on the check-in posts, or if anyone is interested in playing check-in host for a week here on the community, which would entail putting up the daily check-in posts and responding to comments, go to the Questions & Suggestions post and leave a comment.
I now declare this Check-In OPEN!
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I had similar slippers once, while living in Germany. The Germans called them Bettschuhe, which means bed shoes, as some wore them in bed to keep their feet warm.
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I was out all morning, dealing with a few necessary errands, and hunting through a few of the charity shops I found a bag of crafting rubber stamps. I now have most of the alphabet in both capital letters and lower case (there are a few missing letters, ah well) plus some animal stamps (including a cloth, a gorilla, a snake, and a tarantula), three heart ones, and several butterflies. There are over 70 individual stamps, so not a bad haul.
I was very naughty though, because despite having enough yarn to make myself at least a dozen sweaters, I bought yarn for a sweater. In my defence, it is the most glorious shade of teal blue, and I told myself I'd only get it if they had enough of the same dye lot. They'd just had a delivery of yarn, hadn't even unpacked it, and at the bottom of one of the boxes was a whole pack of the colour I wanted, so obviously it was fate.
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Of course it was! And congratulations to achieving all those rubber stamps. :)
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Thanks =)
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It sounds like an excellent charity shop haul. Teal blue is one of my favourite colours!
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Very nice rubber stamp haul.
The yarn was clearly fate. How could you not?
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Indeed. I've been wanting that colour for months, but there's never been much of it on the shelves, so I got lucky this time!
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Also, I am thrilled because I found crochet charting software that does exactly what I wanted it to. It's open source, by Stitch Works Software (I can find the link if anyone wants it). The charts look gorgeous and you can export them as SVG (vector graphics). Alas, I found it *after* I had already sprung $30 for a year's subscription to Stitch Fiddle. I do like Stitch Fiddle still but it doesn't have the same features as this software does. Still, I have some knitting charts in the plans for the future, and Stitch Fiddle will work nicely for that, so it's not an entire loss of money.
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I'm so glad you found software that does what you want it to. That's always such a satisfying feeling.
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What an excellent find!
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I'm sure the charting software will be very useful to some of our members. I'll take not of both myself, although I can't read a crochet chart to save my life *grins* Still might come in handy at some point, so thanks for finding and testing both out ♥
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But, I did craft yesterday (Monday) and didn't check in then, so I'm going to talk about that.
Monday was my weekly crafting/check in with my friend. The crafting part went well. She has this stockpile of paper craft project subscription boxes that we've been trying to work through and we did two of them. The subscription boxes are actually quite nice. They give you literally everything you need to complete the project, including ink and adhesive, almost everything is precut or at least perforated, and the there are usually extras of the small fiddly bits and the stamp sets are a full themed set, not just what you need for the project. They are also reasonably priced, but the parent company that owns them is an MLM so, I am always on the fence about promoting the boxes.
Anyway, the first box was from February 2019 and the project was a set of spring cards themed after photos of succulents. There were three designs and enough supplies for three cards of each design. We both made one of each and put the leftovers in her supply closet. Two of the cards were a bit more fiddly than I like trying to walk her through, but we got there in the end. She had fun and marveled at how she would have never made something like that on her own. (The color scheme was very much not to her taste, but when they were done, she liked it and thought they went well together.)
The second box was from January 2019. It was a set of Valentine pillow boxes for candy or small toys for kids. There were two designs and it made something like 24 over all. We both made one of each design. Though this was simpler, she had a harder time with it. She couldn't wrap her head around that we were making boxes not cards. And though folding each box was 3 steps, that part took close to 15 minutes because she refused to believe what I was telling and showing her. Also, at some point in the past, she had opened the box and taken all the embellishments, the ink pad, and most the adhesives out, so there was some improvising during decorating. She liked her finished boxes, but asked me to make the rest of the kit disappear.
The hard part of the visit was I am probably the only person she really talks to all week, which I am used to and generally okay with, but she had a lot of random takes I was not expecting this week and wasn't totally sure how to handle. Ranging from politics, the British royal family, the events she saw in a animal documentary, things she read on the internet so they must be true, to me trying to explain to her that google search and Facebook are infact two different things (she still doesn't believe me). I think she might be on speaking terms with her housekeeper again though.
Sorry this is so long.
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Explaining things to the elderly can be very difficult, I remember that only too well from caring for my mum the last few years of her life. Kudos for managing to stay patient through it all. It does sound exhausting though.
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