Check-In Post May 5th 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]

Today's forecast was for light showers, so of course we got three shortish but very heavy downpours and a brief thunderstorm. I did at least manage an hour outside when it wasn't raining, and cut back a bit of a rose that's reverted to the wild, and a bit of the equally overgrown lonicera hedge. Not that it's made any noticeable difference to that. I'll have the cut it back to leaflessness to have any hope of getting it under control.

Still feeling stressed from the past week.

[wiseheart]

Still feeling stressed from the past week.

Small wonder! At least you've made some progress in the garden. One step at a time, right?

[badly_knitted]

A tiny, tiny little step...

[wiseheart]

No crafting today. I was baking all morning for tomorrow's coronation party Mum and I are planning to hold... with varied success. We'll eat the stuff anyway, but they didn't exactly turn out how I'd expected. *sigh*

[badly_knitted]

Sad that the baking was unsuccessful =(

Cheddar is the best cheese (I am biased of course) and should give a really strong flavour, as long as it's mature. (I favour the extra mature, I like cheese with a bite). I hope you'll give cheddar another chance.

[wiseheart]

Well, I still have more than half of the chunk I bought left, so we'll see. *g*

[badly_knitted]

Hopefully you can use it in a more enjoyable way. Personally, I'd rather just eat it with a really good brown bread, or melted on toast. It doesn't need anything else. I am a certified Cheddar lover *grins*

(My mum used to make a brilliant cheese and potato pie, just boil potatoes, let them cool, mash them, mix with plenty of grated cheese, fill a pastry case like you're making a quiche, then bake in the oven. No idea how long to bake it for though, or how high. Sometimes she'd put sliced tomato on the top before baking. It was delicious, hot or cold.)

[wiseheart]

Sounds yummy! I might give it a try one day. Cheese-wise I'd prefer Emmenthaler, but it's quite price-y, so I only buy it on special occasions. On average days we go with Edam or Gouda cheese.

[badly_knitted]

It is =D

I think pretty much any cheese will work, as long as you put enough in and mix it well with the potato. I can't quite remember, but mum might have added a drop of milk to help blend everything together.

[althea_valara]

I finally got around to posting my April crafting update in my journal, here: https://xnera.dreamwidth.org/1138010.html

Today I've been hard at work on the crocheted cardigan. I redid the two rows I had to frog last night, did the chains for the sleeve openings, made short rows for bust shaping, and now am on the even rows for the body. The pattern suggests 10 rows for the body but I might make more. It depends where it hits on my body when worn. I prefer longer items because cropped items wouldn't look good on my body type. Anyway, I'm hoping to finish this by late Monday so I can wear it Tuesday, and I think it might be doable!

[badly_knitted]

That's quite an array!

Good luck with getting the cardigan finished so quickly!