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.


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!

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!

[yarnofariadne]

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

[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.

[wiseheart]

I hope you're feeling better by now.

[wiseheart]

Very good indeed!

[yarnofariadne]

I am, thank you!

[yarnofariadne]

They sound delicious!

[darkcedars]

Yes, still good!

[darkcedars]

Glad it's passed!

[darkcedars]

Sounds really good!

[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]

True, but still over a hundred to go before the neck shaping.

[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.

[badly_knitted]

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

[badly_knitted]

Thank you! I'm doing pretty well with the pattern now.

[badly_knitted]

Thank you! I was hoping for 18, but I ran out of time.

[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]

I have this dream of visiting the UK again one day. If by some miracle it becomes true, I'll drop in by you and make you some fresh from the scratch. *g*

[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.

[badly_knitted]

I don't exactly have a working kitchen, but it's a nice thought.

[wiseheart]

No worries, I'm really creative that way. *g*

[badly_knitted]

I mean, the oven is never used so it probably doesn't even work. Hasn't been used in 8 years because I don't cook much of anything.

[darkcedars]

The blue centered African daisy, calendulas, a few nasturtiums, mint, and basil. The last 3 don't really need started inside, but I was so frustrated with last year's cold spring I don't want to wait this one.