Check-In Post February 14th 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]

No knitting yet today, I'll get to that in a bit while I watch TV. I did get out in the garden for a little while after finishing chores though. It was quite mild out so I started cutting back an overgrown cotoneaster near the back door. I was going to do it last year, but it started flowering before I got around to it, and there were happy bees buzzing around it, so I didn't want to take away their nectar supply. Then after the flowers the berries started forming, and the blackbirds love those, so it didn't get done. I'm determined it will this year because it's getting out of hand.

[wiseheart]

The bees and birds will be disappointed,though.

[badly_knitted]

I'm not cutting it right down, just getting it under control. There will still be flowers and berries, it will probably put out a lot of new shoots this year, but it may not be quite as prolific as last year.

[spiralicious]

Well done

[badly_knitted]

Thanks!

[wiseheart]

I worked a lot on the baby books today. Made all the page bases - it was long, tedious and boring as I knew it would be. Working with double-sided tape is always a pain in the derriere, at least for me. Since I'm genetically damaged where gluing/sewing/cutting/drawing anything in a straight line is concerned, lining up 24 individual stripes of double sided tape proved a serious challenge. One that I promptly lost, as always. I don't think there was a single one that got lined up the way I'd have liked it to be. But that can't be helped. Some people are tone deaf. I "have a crease in the pupils", as the late Sister Richardis once so eloquently put. I have learned to live with my impaired sense of direction - since I had no other choice.

On the bright side, we had choir practice today, which is always fun. And it turned out that my friend's second grandchild is going to be a girl, which is great, as it means I can add some pink and lace and frills to Baby Book #3. Yay! I have more than enough of the girly stuff that needs to be used up.

[badly_knitted]

Yay for progress! Straight lines are evil, I'm sure you did the best you could.

Also yay for pink frilliness! I am not by any stretch of the imagination a girly girl, but I still love pink *grins*

[wiseheart]

Neither am I, but baby girls ought to have at least *some* pink around them, right?

[badly_knitted]

When they're babies. As they get older they can make up their own minds.

[wiseheart]

It has been my experience that the pink phase usually ends with the end of lower primary classes.

[badly_knitted]

Except for the seriously girly girls.

[spiralicious]

Straight lines are seriously overrated (of course, I can't draw one with guide dots and a straight edge assisting me, I might be biased)

[badly_knitted]

Managed 24 rows on the sleeve while watching TV, so that's the second pattern repeat completed.

[wiseheart]

Great job!

[badly_knitted]

Thanks!

[spiralicious]

Excellent

[badly_knitted]

Thanks!

[tielan]

One seam today. I can do just one seam.

[badly_knitted]

*cheers you on* Yes, you can do it!

[tielan]

I managed three seams and some ironing.

[badly_knitted]

Yay, well done! Even more progress than you were hoping!

[spiralicious]

*\o/*

[readera]

I finished my swatch for my new project. I measured it and it's not quick right. I don't know if it's OK or how to fix it. I need to think and do math but I don't gave the brain for it rn.

[badly_knitted]

Ugh, sometimes calculations are so HARD. Hope you can figure it out.

[readera]

🤞

[spiralicious]

Hope you can figure it out

[readera]

🤞