Check-In Post March 29th 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]

14 rows on the sweater back. Not as much as I'd hoped, but still good.

[yarnofariadne]

That's still 14 rows more than you had before!

[wiseheart]

Very good indeed!

[darkcedars]

Yes, still good!

[spiralicious]

Nice

[yarnofariadne]

Migraine kept me from knitting yesterday, but I'm working on the rainbow scarf again this evening.

[wiseheart]

I hope you're feeling better by now.

[badly_knitted]

So sorry you had to suffer through a migraine =(

Glad you're doing better now and can get back to your rainbow knitting.

[sister_raphael]

Migraines are the worst!

[spiralicious]

Glad to hear it has passed.

[wiseheart]

I baked two different batches of Easter biscuits today: orange-flavoured chickens and lemon-flavoured bunnies. That's as crafty as I could get for one day.

[yarnofariadne]

They sound delicious!

[darkcedars]

Sounds really good!

[badly_knitted]

Now that would be biscuit heaven for me! I love anything orange or lemon flavoured. Well done!

[sister_raphael]

Oh sounds delicious!!

[spiralicious]

They sound tasty.

[darkcedars]

I'm playing chicken on what I hope is the last round of the baby blanket. If there isn't enough to make it around the last time, I'll just rip back.

Started some seeds indoors this morning. I had purchased a compressed brick of coconut coir. Sawed some pieces off with an old bread knife (I didn't want the whole 8 quarts at once) and dumped water on it as instructed. Very fun to watch it expand, and it made little snap and pop noises.

[yarnofariadne]

Best of luck with yarn chicken!

[badly_knitted]

Fingers crossed to make it around because it's so annoying if you almost make it and then have to undo most of a row, or in your case a round.

Coir blocks are fun *grins* What seeds did you sow?

[wiseheart]

There's this desert plant called a Jericho rose (at least in Hungarian). It looks like a bundle of hay, but if you put it in water, it unfolds and becomes bright green... not to mention several times as big as in dry state. It must work after a similar principle, I think.

[spiralicious]

Good luck!

Coconut coir sounds fun. What did you plant?

[tielan]

In a mad sale mood right now.

I put up a whole bunch of stamping and papercraft stuff on a local waste-not group.

Next up is the gaming minis which I ordered and never actually used...

[badly_knitted]

De-cluttering! *cheers you on*

[sister_raphael]

Desperately trying to get some serious organisation into my work room and the photo editing continues. The coloured backdropes were a great idea (I stapled them together instead of sewing) and the photos are just perfect for what I need.

[badly_knitted]

Good luck with the organising and phot editing!

[spiralicious]

It was cleaning day and a friend had a family emergency that had her on the phone with me for moral support for something like 5 hours (though not all at once).

Today was obviously not the crafting heavy day I intended.

I finished painting the cardboard tulips from yesterday and I glued together the clothes pin carrots. I hot glued green yarn on the ends for stems, instead of the fake plants wrapped in twine suggested in the tutorial and I also decided against the large bows.

There was one more item I was going to add to my aunt's gift basket, but I think I am going to call it good. Hopefully, I can find some candy she might like during weekly shopping tomorrow.

[badly_knitted]

That sounds like a busy and emotionally draining day =(

You did well to get as much done as you managed though!