Check-In Post May 13th 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

sewing

[house_wren]

My crafty accomplishment was going yesterday to the local sewing shop to buy a cake of beeswax & a thimble in preparation for sewing by hand. This thimble is leather, which I think I will prefer over the metal kind. The shop is small & the women who work their are always kind.

It was comforting, which surprised me. But I grew up sewing & even though my mum was often a tyrant, I missed her then. When she was old & blind, no longer able to sew, she sometimes wanted fabric to use in some non-sewing way. I would take her to the store & describe the fabric while she touched it.

Re: sewing

[badly_knitted]

I like the sound of that leather thimble, that would be so much more flexible and comfortable than metal. Mine are all metal and plastic.

It's curious the things that remind us of our mums. Mine used to be very good at sewing but the talent didn't pass on to me. When I'm out, I often see things and think, 'Mum would like that'. She's been gone 8 years.

That was so kind of you to do for your mum, I think it would have meant a lot to her.

Re: sewing

[wiseheart]

My grandmother has been gone since 1996, but Mum and I mention her daily, being reminded of her by a thousand little things. Small wonder, really; the three of us lived together practically since my birth.

Grandma was excellent at crocheting; neither of us has inherited the passion for that. But the wondrous things she created are still all over the flat, and we admire them time and time again.