Check-In Post June 30th 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

[badly_knitted]

Temperatures have dropped here, it's below 65F out and wet so it feels even colder and I'm fed up. So much for summer.


I have assembled 5 more spiders though, and I've pinned the eyes to the rest of them. Hoping to sew some of them on in a bit.

[wiseheart]

How much is that again in Celsius? Sorry, I just can't wrap my mind around Fahrenheit.

Hurrah for spiders with eyes!

[wiseheart]

Depressingly little crafting got done today. I added some waves to two water surfaces, in the form of picot edge. Exactly one row of stitches and a half. But those stitches were made through three layers of felt, a layer of double-sided tape and the picot edge, so I think I was suitably heroic, especially after the visit at the dentist's.

Tomorrow will mark the start of the new picowrimo session, which means crafting will be put on the back burner for a while. I really, really need to get back into writing! The plan is to work on Timescapes, my Primeval/Whoniverse crossover with Mycroft Holmes added for some spice. I got stuck with that one last time because I was getting doubts about my idea of the next chapter, but I think I might have found a solution. We'll see. *fingers crossed*

[badly_knitted]

That sounds like a hugely heroic crafting effort. I hope your fingers recover quickly.

[badly_knitted]

16C. So miserably cold =( It's even colder indoors than it is outside.

Will be stitching eyes on in a bit.

[wiseheart]

That *is* cold indeed. And the inside of a house takes usually longer to warm up than the outside temperatures. We had a few freezing days in May in our own home, too.

[wiseheart]

Fortunately, only a couple of more stitches are needed. I stopped when the thread ended and left the rest for tomorrow.

[yarnofariadne]

Successfully conquered row 3 on the beach cover-up, and moved on to complete through row 6. Row 7's got another new stitch, so I was practising on scrap yarn for a fair bit today until I got the hang of it. I'll probably practise a bit more before actually getting going on row 7 tomorrow, though, just to be safe 😂

[yarnofariadne]

I'm sorry about your weather, but I'm glad to hear the spiders are still coming along ♥

[yarnofariadne]

Well done on the waves, they sound like a tricky thing!

Best of luck with picowrimo!

[badly_knitted]

Aaaaaand... 15 more spiders now have eyes, bringing the current spider total to 95!

[badly_knitted]

My house gets cold fast when the weather turns miserable, and a lot longer to warm up again. I was relying on hot water bottles in early June. Might have to start that again =(

[badly_knitted]

That's a good place to stop.

[badly_knitted]

Yay, well done!

That sounds like a good method of learning with all the different stitches. It's worth the extra effort to get to grips with each stitch first.

[badly_knitted]

Thanks. I have 95 completed now.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Yay for progress on spiders!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

It is a lot to get done after the dentist! Well done.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Yay!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

I hope everyone had a good June. A pride spread.

[readera]

I finally go done ripping out the hem of my knitted bralette so that I can lengthen it. I'm so glad to be knitting on it.

I also have a take along project of some fingerless gloves out of some scraps. I finished the first one and I am well into the second one.

[badly_knitted]

Yay Pride! Pretty!

[badly_knitted]

Glad to hear you finally finished the undoing part and to get back to the more enjoyable knitting.

Great progress on the gloves too!

[badly_knitted]

Thank you! They're coming along well, 250 doesn't seem so daunting now I've almost done the first hundred.

[celli]

ahhh, cold AND wet, I'm sorry. :(

[celli]

Definitely heroic! And your story sounds amazing, too!