Check-In Post March 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]

Ten rows on the second sleeve, that's it for today.

[wiseheart]

Still progress. :)

[badly_knitted]

It was all my arms could take today. I've been clearing the dry coal out of the coal house ready for a fresh load to be delivered on Friday. I have lost count of how many buckets and plastic sacks I've filled. My arms hurt yesterday but now I'm waiting for them to fall off.

[wiseheart]

Oh, poor you! *sending healing vibes your direction*

[badly_knitted]

Thank you *hugs*

[smallhobbit]

Trundling along nicely!

[badly_knitted]

Very slow going at present due to aching arms from moving logs yesterday and coal today. Might do better once my poor arms recover.

[tielan]

10 rows is HEAPS of progress!

[badly_knitted]

Thanks! It's well below my usual though, I'd been aiming for 30 rows today, but it all helps.

[wiseheart]

I had a very busy day but I did some crafting while the physiotherapist lady was working on Mum. Not much, just producing five identical kitty sofas in a frankly alarming shade of pink. But that's Hello Kitty for you. Lots and lots of pink.

[smallhobbit]

The pink sounds appropriate, even if a bit much!

[wiseheart]

Personally, I'm not into pink, but in this context it's mandatory, I'm afraid.

[badly_knitted]

Every bit of progress helps.

Some shades of pink are quite disturbing in their pinkness.

[wiseheart]

I've toned down the neon colours a bit, but the things are still bright enough. *g*

[badly_knitted]

Hopefully the recipients love pink.

[wiseheart]

According to their Grandma, at least the two 3-year-old are full in their pink and frilly and glitter phase, so I'm cautiously optimistic. *g*

[badly_knitted]

Sounds like you should be okay!

[tielan]

I once visited the Hello Kitty store in Ho Chi Minh City (to buy a present for my friends' kids) and Oh My GAWSH the pink. (Also the white. Also the glitter. WHEW.)

But five sofas is great!

[wiseheart]

Let's hope that five different little girls in the respective ages between two and seven will be happy with their booklets. *g*

[spiralicious]

"frankly alarming shade of pink" should be an official color name

[smallhobbit]

I finished my cross stitch today:

[badly_knitted]

I'm amazed at how quickly you completed it!

Looks absolutely stunning!

[smallhobbit]

Thank you very much :) Yes, I was surprised at how fast I did it!

[tielan]

That is BEAUTIFUL. Wow.

What's the plan for it? (I don't think I've seen this before, so excuse me if you've been patiently explaining your plans all through the process.)

[smallhobbit]

Thank you very much! I may eventually get round to hanging it up - I'd certainly like to.

[wiseheart]

This is so very beautiful!

[smallhobbit]

Thank you very much!

[althea_valara]

*jaw drops* Wow, that is GORGEOUS! Well done!

[smallhobbit]

Thank you very much.

[spiralicious]

That is gorgeous

[smallhobbit]

Thank you very much!

[tielan]

Finished backings for the last of the two quilts that have batting!

Now I just have to find batting for two more quilts! I think I'll go to the local big-habadashery store and buy it; I would have preferred to buy a roll from a small quilt shop, but if I do this now, then NEARLY ALL MY QUILT TOPS ARE BEING QUILTED!

[wiseheart]

I think you've lost me during the last sentence; but again, I'm very tired and my higher brain functions are... whacky at best. Still, you've made impressive progress.

[smallhobbit]

That's really great progress :)

[badly_knitted]

Woohoo! You're on a roll with the quilts! What will you do when they're all finished?

[tielan]

Give them away to friends and family.

[badly_knitted]

I'm sure they will be much appreciated.

[spiralicious]

*\o/*

[althea_valara]

Knocked out a quick coaster for a Nerdopolis challenge. The challenge is "Under the Microscope", so I did a Candy Swirl Coaster in two different colors of red, and said it was flat, red and round like a red blood cell as seen under a microscope.

The yarn I ordered from Colourmart has made it to US customs in the biggest city near me, hurray! Shouldn't be much longer.

Tomorrow I stop at a craft store to pick up some anti-pilling acrylic yarn for a stuffed toy of Clifford, the Big Red Dog. I'm making it at mom's request to give to a friend of hers who's having a baby. I'm just glad it's not a baby blanket this time! Clifford should go much faster.

[badly_knitted]

Those coasters are so much fun!

Yay, hope your yarn will soon be with you =)

Clifford should be fun to make, and I'm sure the baby will appreciate him.

[althea_valara]

Yeah, the coasters ARE fun. This was my 12th Ravelry project for them, and in some of the projects I made several coasters, so I have a ton of them now, haha. But they work great for the "I don't know what else to make" kind of themes. It helps that Nerdopolis has no minimum time requirement so they don't care if you make something small (they understand that people have different restrictions on their time and might not be able to make bigger projects).

[badly_knitted]

Maybe you'll be able to sell the excess coasters if you ever do another craft fair. *grins*

If I doing these challenges, there would be an awful lot of knitted mice, I think.

[spiralicious]

Very nice all around! The coaster is a very creative take on the prompt.

[spiralicious]

Hoping my internet holds out long enough to post this.

I've been resting my hands the last couple days, mostly. They are still a tiny bit sore from knitting the bag strap.

Today was just a generally bad day overall, but I made a chocolate pie for pie day and wrote a very last minute drabble for Squidgiepdx' Pi Day Drabble-ish-or-more-a-thon and Story_Works' Pi Day Flash Challenge here on DW. To my personal amazement, I also got it posted to AO3 before midnight here, though I am pretty sure I will need to change up the tags a little.

Yesterday, Lynn and I met for the first time in 2or 3 weeks. I made her chocolate sugar cookies. We worked on another of her subscription box card kits - bright pink, green, and black and white birthday cards. They were fiddly and not to Lynn's liking, but we made it through.

I also made more repairs and tweaks to the altered book. I'm starting to get frustrated with how slow it's going.

[badly_knitted]

Internet issues are so annoying =(

Hope your hands are recovering. Mine are sore too from lugging logs, so not much knitting happening.

The pie sounds delicious, and well done for getting something written for pi day too!

Not sure those cards would have been to my tastes either, but they're done now.

Hope the altered book will soon be progressing better for you.

[wiseheart]

Be careful not to over-extend your hands before they've completely recovered! What you've listed above won't qualify as "resting", you know. Congratulations to writing and posting the drabble in time, BTW.