Check-In Post May 26th 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]

Trying to get the hang of my new physio exercises, 4 of them, 12 repeats of each, 3 times a day.


Other than that, there's been writing, and the cutting of lots of yarn for spider legs. I still have two stacks of bodies awaiting the leg yarn, and a third that needs both leg yarn and bases. Still progress is being made and I will hopefully soon be moving on to actually making the twisted cord legs. Forgot to rip any CDs though *sigh*

[yarnofariadne]

Wishing you luck with the physio exercises!

The twisted cord legs sound cool.

[darkcedars]

wow, 3 times a day sounds a lot, but maybe that's normal!

Spider assembly line sounds like it is going well!

[spiralicious]

That is a lot of new physio to work into your day.

You aren't just making progress, you're building anticipation!

[yarnofariadne]

Got quite a bit done on the infinity scarf today - I had some podcasts to catch up on so I really got in a groove. Have joined in the third skein of five, and it's at about 3.5 inches wide out of a goal of 7, so halfway there!

[darkcedars]

The halfway point is always cool to reach. :D

[badly_knitted]

Excellent! You'll be done before you know it.

[wiseheart]

Halfway point is such a relief, isn't it?

[spiralicious]

Excellent work! Having something to listen to really helps.

[darkcedars]

Working on a dishcloth a bit today and pondering the neglected pillowcase project.

It's a really pretty day. I have laundry hanging out on the clothesline, trying out baking some eggs in muffin tin, and my kabocha squash has sprouted! I planted 5 and 3 came up. I have never grown winter squash before, but we had such a tasty one earlier this month I decided to plant some seeds from it.

[badly_knitted]

Pondering is necessary before jumping in. *nods*

Yay for your squash plants! I hope they produce tasty squashes for you later in the year.

[yarnofariadne]

Sounds like a lovely day!

[spiralicious]

Congratulations on your squash plants! May they continue on to become delicious squash!

[wiseheart]

I only did very minimal craft work today, but that little meant having finished the current phase of two different projects.

The cover of the textile book with the finger puppet animals:



And the monthly baby statistics cards to the very fancy baby book I'm currently working on:



Unfortunately, some idiot at Pinterest decided that revamping the entire upload process would be a good idea - as a result, uploading pins has become ten times as complicated as before, and the pictures are about the size of a stamp. I'm sure there are dozens of cool new facilities to change that, but I have neither the time nor the nerves to experiment. Why couldn't they leave things as they were and worked perfectly?

[badly_knitted]

So pretty! I love the unicorns *grins*

I am constantly curses things that keep changing on my computer. Every update makes things that were formerly simple take forever >=[

[spiralicious]

Adorable cover! And those cards came out so nice!

Why do people keep insisting on fixing things that are not broken? I get that updates and changes need to happen sometimes, but so much of it just feels like unnecessary change for the sake of unnecessary change.

[darkcedars]

That fabric is so cute! And ugh tech silliness

[readera]

I wanted an easy knitting project so I started a new Barley hat yesterday. I'm making it out of leftover yarn, starting with a teal color. I'm planning on adding a lavender yarn next & maybe a black yarn if I need to. I'm done with the ribbing & moved onto the main body today.

It's a free pattern and I've made at least 3 of them. https://www.tincanknits.com/pattern/barley?g=2

I gave away all of my knit hats to my sister who lives in MN when I saw her last month. Now I have an excuse to knit more hats. 😁

[spiralicious]

Sounds like it's going to be lovely :)

[badly_knitted]

That looks a nice, simple pattern, and I love the colours you're using!

Yay for good excuses to make more, you might need some yourself next winter.

[darkcedars]

I'm glad you have someone to give hats to. I like making them from scraps too.

[spiralicious]

Today has been so busy!

Most of it centered around the library and all of the crafting did. Our library has a little craft room and today because of the holiday weekend, they set up a special drop in craft. It was making beach themed jar lights. They supplied jars with lights in the lid, rocks, and seashells. You put the rocks and seashells in the jar and tada, jar light. Mine is a little sad looking and needs some rearranging.

The fourth Friday Fiber group also met today at the library. It went really well. I worked on my shawl. My mom joined us to work on a pillow she's been embroidering. Two new people from the quilter's guild also joined in. (One was crossstitching a pillow and the other was working on some embroidery on a quilt square.) And I have been asked to be in charge next month!

After all that and a couple other things, I took a quick tour of the Friends of the Library book sale. I hadn't intended to get anything, but I got a small stack and my mother bought several storage tubs the books had been stored in before the sale. Three of the books I got were craft books: one on making your own sewing patterns, a how to crochet book from 1949, and a little how to general life skills book, which I guess isn't exactly crafty, but it was in the craft section.

Then after checking on some very fluffy cats, I took a very long nap.

[badly_knitted]

All of that sounds wonderful fun! With added cats and naps =D

Hope you can rearrange your jar light so you're happier with it.

[darkcedars]

Wow you must have been at the library almost all day. :)

[wiseheart]

Doing craft with similar-minded people is such fun! When I was in the convent, we had recreation evening once a week, and we were often crafting on such evenings in the novitiate. That's when I was introduced to paper embroidery, which I greatly enjoy to the present day.