Check-In Post June 14th 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: At the request of new member cora... In light of new members, where are we all in the world? No need for exact locations, just general country is fine!


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]

Glad to hear your weather is improving!

Knitting in hot weather is a bit of an ordeal, I tend not to do much wool work, or at least not big things, when it's hot but British summertime is often chilly and damp, so I can still do a bit on cooler days.

I sympathise. I have my own buttons, my mum's collection, and somehow, my late aunt's as well. One day I should probably sort them, but I'm still clearing out mum's stuff after 8 years. Still turning up things of hers to get rid of, and trying to whittle down my book collection too. It all takes time. Good luck!

[house_wren]

When my mum died I got her buttons & my gran's too. I grew up when everyone seemed to have an old tin full of buttons; we sewed clothes and rarely bought buttons. We just went through the stash. When I was about 8 I spent my precious allowance (probably 25 cents) on my own tin full of buttons at an antique store. (My mum, the hoarder wasn't great at sharing.) I felt so rich. Funny, that.

[badly_knitted]

When I was little, if I wasn't well I'd be tucked up on the couch and allowed to play with the button box. Hours of simple fun sorting them out on a tray. Mum used to make clothes for my sister and I. Then, when anything was worn out, the buttons would be removed and added to the button box. It was only when I started knitting baby clothes that I had to buy buttons of my own, because there was nothing suitable in the collection we already had. Too big, or too tiny, or the wrong colours.

[wiseheart]

You can never have too many buttons! Besides, they are never the right size, shape or colour, so you need to get more. *g*

[badly_knitted]

Buttons always come in handy, it's true.