Check-In Post May 25th 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]

Well, I survived today, just about! I did some shopping before my appointment, picked up some necessities — wild bird food, chocolate, the important stuff — browsed the charity shops and came out with a load of DVDs, some craft card, and a small cross stitch kit of a snowman, and found a nice CD storage unit which should help me get some of my newer CDs sorted.


My appointment ended up over 30 minutes late because the physiotherapist had an appointment of his own, which ran massively late. But I had my book to read, and it was nice to sit down after all the walking. The good news is my hips are fine, the bad news is I have no muscles or something. Anyway, now I have a bunch of exercises to do, and I have to go back in a couple of months to review progress. It could take 6 months before I really see much improvement, but I shall persevere.

[wiseheart]

No muscles, after all that physical labour you do all the time? How is *that* possible?

wild bird food, chocolate, the important stuff
I love your priorities! *g*

[badly_knitted]

I spend too much time sitting at my computer. It can be caused by age, hormone changes, and a variety of other things, can't remember the rest but I ticked a lot of the boxes. Hopefully the physio exercises will help.

Gotta get priorities right ;)

[yarnofariadne]

I hope the exercises help!

[badly_knitted]

So do I. They'd better, with all the time they'll be taking up.

[spiralicious]

You survived!

Hope the physio helps!

[badly_knitted]

More or less. Still tired though.

Thanks, I hope so.

[wiseheart]

I got the numbers 1-12 cut out and applied to the cards. That's all the crafting I managed today. I was completely flattened after my shopping tour. Even though I actually "borrowed" the shopping cart from the supermarket to get all those 1,5l bottles of ginger ale, mineral water and milk home (no chance doing so by hand), keeping the cart balanced was a real power act. All pavements lean towards the road (probably to allow rain water to flow down), so the stupid cart was trying to go that way, too. Aside from the bottles (all 20 of them) I also had fruit and veggies, so the weight was considerable. Taking the empty cart back nearly unbalanced me with its unexpected lightness. *g*

But no, I was in no shape to do any delicate work after that.

[yarnofariadne]

That sounds like a very stressful shopping trip. Well done for your progress in light of all that!

[wiseheart]

I am content with the outcome, yes.

[badly_knitted]

Well done for getting anything done at all!

Those shopping trolleys are a nightmare to steer. That was a lot to transport though. Not surprising you're so tired.

[wiseheart]

Still, I am glad the supermarket is just at a short distance from us. Otherwise I'd have had to make several trips instead of just one.

[spiralicious]

Very impressed you got your load home without incident.

[wiseheart]

Thanks. Fortunately, it's just a short distance from our building to the supermarket, and practice helps. I do this every other month or so.

[yarnofariadne]

About two and a half more rows on the infinity scarf; it's about three inches wide now out of a goal of seven, and I'm coming up on the last of the second skein out of five. I hoped to start the third tonight but just ran out of time.

[wiseheart]

No need to pressure yourself. You'll get there soon enough. You're making good progress.

[badly_knitted]

You're nearly to number 3 though, that's still great progress!

[spiralicious]

You're making great progress!

[spiralicious]

Craft wise today, I finished the border on the 4th not-a-baby-blanket. I also did the first four rows of the shawl along with the online tutorial. (All of Red Heart yarn's free patterns have video tutorials anymore, though they are a pain to find.) The next 6 rows are repeats of what I've already done, so hopefully they will take up the time of fiber group tomorrow.

The rest of the day was grocery shopping and running errands to help cut down on the need to leave the house during the festival weekend. The tourists are already causing problems. And I finished up all, but one of the activities for the library reading challenge I'm doing that ends at the end of this month.

[badly_knitted]

Yay! That's 4 blanket squares done, right?

Good luck with the shawl it's awesome that there are tutorials for the patterns even if they're not easy to locate.

Hope the festival doesn't cause too many disruptions for you.

[spiralicious]

It is!

Thanks! It definitely is, I would have been very lost a couple of times without it.

Thanks :) From yesterday (Thursday) until Monday, there are 29+ official events, and who knows how many unofficial, and I plan on staying home as much as possible. Tomorrow will probably be the worst of it, weather dependent.

[badly_knitted]

Sounds like you'll be better off just hiding at home.

It's always good to have a straightforward project to work on.

[spiralicious]

That is the general plan. I am slightly curious to see what's at the street fair this year, but I doubt I will walk down to fight the crowd.

Yes!

[badly_knitted]

Crowds are a pain.

[spiralicious]

Indeed

[wiseheart]

Four squares already? That promises to be one impressive blanket eventually! Good luck with the shawl, too.

[spiralicious]

Two more and it should at least be a proper lap blanket. Thanks! It's been a bit challenging, but I think I'm getting the hang of it.