Check-In Post June 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: 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! Leaving this question open for a few more days so anyone who hasn't answered it yet still can.


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]

Another 10 spiders constructed. Then I punched out a bunch of eyes, which has left my hands feeling very sore. Using a regular hole punch by hand in a painful process. I'm punching eyes out of tiny pieces of felt so I have to make sure the felt is in exactly the right place, then squeeze the punch by hand instead of putting it on a flat surface. The metal edges really dig into my hands. Ow.

[wiseheart]

I punched out a bunch of eyes

At first sight that sentence didn't make me think of felt... Either my English still sucks or I have a very morbid imagination. *g*

Your poor hands, though *hugs*. I can relate - my middle finger, the one I push the needle with, starts feeling all those layers again.

[badly_knitted]

Yeah, it does sound suspect but I figured people would understand what I meant, lol!

My palms ended up very red, so I can't do more eyes for a few days. I've been struggling with getting my needle through everything when using a thicker fabric for the spiders, but I tend to use the top of my desk to help push it through. I probably shouldn't, but it works.

[wiseheart]

Actually, I do the same. Of course, I have one of those thick plastic cutting surfaces on my desktop, so I can do it with a calm conscience. ;))

[badly_knitted]

I should dig out a plastic cutting board to use.

[wiseheart]

Those are very useful for such work.

[badly_knitted]

I know I've got one I set aside for crafting, I saw it recently, if I could just remember where...

[wiseheart]

I made some good progress with the songbooks: the foliage of all eight trees is now sewn on, and I added two additional rows of stitches to the oven because the felt surface seemed a bit wobbly. I'd have liked to sew on the trunks as well, but tomorrow is big cleaning day again and we had to put everything up on tables and other higher surfaces, so that the dirt could actually be reached.

[badly_knitted]

You still did really well, even if you didn't get as much done as you might have liked.

Good luck with the cleaning!

[wiseheart]

Thanks. I hate this ordeal and have to get through it once a fortnight. :(

crafty clean out

[house_wren]

Today I packed up 3 boxes of weaving & knitting books to take to my knitting group. Whatever they don't want will go the library donation box.

In the process of going through my things I found a photocopy of a small book that I had found in my college library called DORSET FEATHER STITCHERY. At the time, I was rather obsessed with smocking, so I suppose that's how I came across it. Anyway, I thought of PUDDLESHARK. [Don't know how to make an official link to her...as usual, my understanding of Dreamwidth is tiny.] For now I'm keeping this book as I think I will still be able to do embroidery.

My looms have been nothing but glorified dust collectors for years, so I'm going to give my small 4 harness table looms to a weaving friend so she can give them to her daughters.

Every time I clear out something I feel so much better. It's easier to keep my space clean, to find what I am looking for, etc. Also, I spent the better part of 2 years clearing out my mum's house. My mum, the hoarder. I am very motivated to not be like my mum.

Re: crafty clean out

[badly_knitted]

Well done with the clearing out, sounds like you're making great progress!

The best way I know to link in the comments to someone with an account on dreamwith is to actually borrow the livejournal html coding < lj user=> The username goes between the = and the > but you need to remove the space between < and lj as well (I had to write it that way because other is shows up as unknown site tag instead of the coding). Do it right and the result should be puddleshark I really hope that makes sense, but if it doesn't I'll try again...

Re: crafty clean out

[matsushima]

I heard that nowadays you can just use an @, like on Twitter!

@puddleshark turns into puddleshark

Re: crafty clean out

[badly_knitted]

That's awesome to know, thanks!

Re: crafty clean out

[house_wren]

Oh! Thank you both for the advice about how to tag someone on Dreamwidth.

Re: crafty clean out

[badly_knitted]

We both learned something new!