Check-In Post July 1st 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]

10 more spiders made, complete with eyes. That makes 105. Now I'm going to sew some eyes on the other spiders that are still waiting to be finished.

[wiseheart]

It was a very busy day - Saturdays usually are - but I still did a bit of crafting: finished the wave for the background of the songbook and completed the three partially done crows that are supposed to cut the wheat on Page #1... while watching crap telly. That's more than I hoped for.

[badly_knitted]

10 more spiders now have eyes, bringing the total to 115.

[celli]

Just picking away at my two embroidery projects - my crochet projects haven't even shipped yet, so I probably won't get them til after my vacation, unfortunately.

[darkcedars]

This morning I did some weeding because it was nice, rained last night and cooled off.

This afternoon I started sanding the door trim that I had mostly stripped paint from with the heat gun. I didn't make a lot of progress but know what I'm doing now and have all the equipment handy. And the wood is so beautiful underneath!

[spiralicious]

Today went better. Originally, I was ditching the Pirates of the Caribbean movie marathon at the library to clean house. Instead, I binged Our Flag Means Death and knitted. It did finally click how to fix the wonky stitch, so that is taken care of. I also brought the shawl into very bright light and found the two spots where I failed to yarn over, so that explains being two stitches short. Like I said yesterday, with this pattern, being two stitches short isn't important, so I'm not going back and fixing them and it's really difficult to even seen where the two problem spots are. (Also, the problems are like over 70 rows back and I'm not ripping that far back when it's not important to do so in this case.) It does feel better to know where the problem is.

We also had what seemed like all the wildlife today. At the same time as all 6 crows were hanging out in our yard, our next door neighbor was being visited by a large for his age buck on her front porch. Then the doe who regularly visits our area also decided to go up on the neighbor's porch. (The buck decided to flee in response.) It was an interesting afternoon.