Check-In Post August 27th 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 of the bonus batch of spiders completed! Just 5 more to do.

[yarnofariadne]

Yay!

[badly_knitted]

Thanks!

[wiseheart]

Fantastic!

[badly_knitted]

Thanks!

[darkcedars]

Wow!

[badly_knitted]

I'm still putting off the elastification...

[spiralicious]

Woohoo!

[badly_knitted]

Hoping to get the last ones done today.

[syderia]

Wonderful!

[badly_knitted]

Thanks!

[yarnofariadne]

Snuck in two rows before D&D today!

[badly_knitted]

Woohoo! Go you!

[wiseheart]

Great progress!

[darkcedars]

Good, hope you had fun.

[spiralicious]

Nice!

[syderia]

Yay!

[wiseheart]

I've sewn in another page (two more to go and boy, will I be deliriously happy when this task is finished, it's a real pain in the backside!) and made another little purse. The latter wouldn't be so hard in itself, but it includes Velcro, so not a delight, either.

[badly_knitted]

Ooof, a pain in the fingers too! But it's steady progress, you're nearly done with this one.

[darkcedars]

Haha binding AND Velcro on the same day!

[yarnofariadne]

You're doing so well!

[spiralicious]

You're almost there!

[darkcedars]

Current batch of dishcloths are 4. I'm out of that yarn type after this one and will need to move to another project.

In-laws are here so I'm just doing some cleaning among family stuff.

[badly_knitted]

I'm sure you can come up with another project to work on.

Hope you're enjoying the visit!

[yarnofariadne]

Hope the visit is going well!

[spiralicious]

Hope you're enjoying the visit!

[readera]

This weekend I was inspired by my reading to pick up my drop spindle and do some spinning. I started with a bare spindle and it's about 2/3 full now. I was working on my long term off & on spinning project. Its some large yarn that was very loosely spun so I can pull it apart & spin it into tighter yarn. It's a pretty variegated of teal, darker blue, & pink.

I'm a very basic spinner and have been doing park & draft since I learned. This weekend I was doing some longer stretches of spinning while the spindle is going. I don't know the proper terms or techniques but I'm having fun.

I also knit on my Mitts a little at the laundromat. It seems to be my laundromat project even if I didn't intend it to be.

[yarnofariadne]

Spinning looks so cool! I hope you're enjoying it.

[spiralicious]

Excellent

[badly_knitted]

The yarn sounds gorgeous. As long as you enjoy your spinning and know well enough how to do what you want to do, knowing the proper terms doesn't matter.

Well, at least you know you can make progress on the mitts every time you have to visit the laundromat!

[tielan]

Not done yet, but I'm planning to start making the bindings of the IDEK how many quilts I have which are quilted but not yet bound.

SO. MANY. QUILTS.

[yarnofariadne]

Ooh nice!

[spiralicious]

*\o/*

[badly_knitted]

Sounds like you have a big project ahead, it should keep you busy for a while. All those gorgeous quilts! Something to be proud of.

[spiralicious]

No crafting today.

Spent 7 hours working on cleaning out my dad's storage unit. We did two loads with a full truck bed and a full trailer each time and we still didn't get everything. Who knew he had so much in such a small space? One trailer load was just slabs of a variety of types of wood. It was weirdly adorable watching him pause every once in a while to look at the pieces of wood in wonderment and identify it's type and where it was from. But everything was heavy. I think the lightest things I loaded were the three saddles. Sorry. It was a lot and I could keep rambling awhile.

Anyway, by the time I got home and cleaned up, I was far too sore to do much of anything and I didn't want to over stress my hands, which still feel a little swollen. So, resting.

[badly_knitted]

I remember the months it took to get everything we'd put in 'temporary' storage back to the house after mum passed away. We had two huge storage rooms full, the stuff had been there for 6 or 7 years by the time I got the last out. I only had a small hatchback car to use.

Kudos to you and your dad clearing so much out. The saddles are so cool (I know how heavy they are). What will you do with all the wood now? I'm not surprised you were sore after that.

[spiralicious]

Storage units are always a lot, aren't they?

Thanks. I have no idea what he's doing with the wood. Some of it, he wasn't sure why he had it to start with. When my mother went to check on him today, he was sorting it into keep and burn, as the bugs got into some of it.

[badly_knitted]

Bugs in wood are a menace. At least you'll he-get a nice fire out of it though.

Storage units are useful short-term, we thought we'd have stuff store for a few months, but there was SO MUCH! Had that expense to pay after mum passed for at least another 2 years before I could get things out and get rid of a lot. Still got a load of clutter that neds dealing with, but I'm too tired.

[spiralicious]

Such a menace! But yeah, it should be really nice firewood.

*Hug*