Check-In Post September 23rd 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]

Apologies for late posting, but Strictly Come Dancing started at 6.15 and I ran out of time for posting beforehand because I needed to eat.


A bit more moving stuff around today, a bit of flipping through cross stitch magazines looking for a design for my neighbour's 90th birthday, and I finished the dismantling of necklaces, which included some time crawling around on the floor, feeling the carpet, which is dark blue, trying to find some teeny tiny back seed beads which escaped. I found ten. If there are any more, they're destined to get vacuumed.


While Strictly was on, I knitted 6 meece bodies using various colour of yarn with the sparkly purple yarn I bought earlier this year. I did say I would make sparkly meeces. Of course, now my stupid thumb hurts.

[wiseheart]

Behold the return of the intrepid meeces! Sorry about your thunk, though.

[badly_knitted]

Thank you. My thunk will survive ;)

Meeces will always creep back in. The sparkly yarn is a menace to work with though.

[wiseheart]

Good grief, have I really written "thunk"? That's what I get from typing without looking at my fingers.

[badly_knitted]

It gave me a good laugh *grins*

This afternoon, doing some writing of my own, I wanted my character, whose feet were dangling over the side of the boat, to lift his feet back onto the deck. I hit a wrong key, the R instead of the E, and despite not having the text prediction turned on, my computer helpfully decided to fill in the word as ferret. That also gave me the giggles. No idea how there was suddenly a ferret on the boat...

[darkcedars]

*Remember the ferret, this is an important plot point later.*

[badly_knitted]

LOL! Sadly, there are no ferrets in this fic. It's a horror story, and I refuse to endanger an innocent ferret. Maybe there might be ferret fic at a later date. I like ferrets.

[syderia]

What are meeces ?

[badly_knitted]

Meeces are little knitted mice like the one in my icon, or like the ones in this post...

https://get-knitted.dreamwidth.org/109517.html

[syderia]

They're cute!

[badly_knitted]

Thank you! They're for the kids at Halloween, along with the spiders I've made this year. I originally just called them knitted mice, but then someone here referred to them as Meeces and the name sort of stuck.

[spiralicious]

You have been quite busy!

I too have a carpet where everything blends in, hunting for tiny escaped things sucks.

Sparkly meeces!

[badly_knitted]

I cannot help myself. Sparkly meeces are necessary!

I found two other beads as well while I was down there, bigger ones from the previous day or two that had gone under the bed.

[spiralicious]

They shall be glorious!

XD It was a very fruitful mission.

[badly_knitted]

They shall!

I could have done without the crawling...

[spiralicious]

:D

The crawling part is always awful, as is the getting up off the floor part. Sometimes, I just choose to stay on the floor for awhile, but it displeases my cat.

[badly_knitted]

I'm not looking forward to having the fire lit (except for having heat and hot water) because it means crawling on the floor twice a day, cleaning it out, which is never fun.

[spiralicious]

That does not sound fun.

I do not miss cleaning out our fireplace when it was our primary heat source, but I didn't have to crawl around on the floor too much.

[badly_knitted]

It really isn't, and the older I get the harder it is.

[m_findlow]

Sparkly meece sound awesome. I can picture them already!

[badly_knitted]

Thanks! Not sure how sparkly they'll look once I make them up and try to photograph them, but I can hope they'll look at least a bit sparkly.

Moving on to new things

[wiseheart]

I've made another cherry pit pillow and a keyring that is basically a tiny pillow, filled with toy stuffing and a bit of lavender. The stuffing absorbs the smell of lavender, so the little pillow will keep the fragrance for quite some time. Or so I hope. I put it into a closed box, so that it would last till the Christmas fair. I've got another three larger (14cm by 16cm) pillow cases and one tiny pillow case cut out and pinned together. I think I've got just enough cherry pits for one more pillow; the rest will get toy stuffing and lavender. It's amazing how much you can do with just one small bushel of lavender. A choir mate gave us all a small bundle as a gift, and it had been drying on the windowsill all summer - now it can fulfil its purpose.

Re: Moving on to new things

[badly_knitted]

Lovely! I love the scent of lavender, it's very calming, so I'm sure the lavender pillows will go down well.

Re: Moving on to new things

[darkcedars]

I love lavender. Sounds like you're getting a lot done.

Re: Moving on to new things

[syderia]

Go you!

Re: Moving on to new things

[spiralicious]

Very nice!

[darkcedars]

I seem to have skipped getting covid after all, though I felt a bit lousy for fays. Which happens when I am exposed to something but don't actually get sick. Negative test twice, no fever etc.

Since today is the first day of fall, I'm working on a couple giant leaves to decorate the porch. I also made muffins again, this time I added black walnuts and cardamom.

[badly_knitted]

So glad you didn't get infected!

Looking forward to seeing your leaves when they're done!

You come up with some delicious muffin ideas.

[spiralicious]

Happy to hear it seems to have skipped you!

Very nice and those muffins sound delicious.

[althea_valara]

Been hard at work on the hoodie, with four rows (2 hours) done today! Here's a try-on pic:



It looks in the pic like it won't close in front, but it does, which is important because the edges get sewn together after a round of edging is crocheted, to make a pull-over. Also, I think it's plenty long already. The pattern calls for 8 more rows, but my row gauge was bigger than the pattern's gauge. I'm going to do 4 more rows, because I need to do a row with some BLO so there are loops free for crocheting the kangaroo pocket on. I'm glad some of the crocheting will be cut out, because I really want to finish this by end of month.

Also, I have started some Celtic Placemats for my sister, who is probably going to be hosting mom and I for Christmas. I don't usually give my sisters Christmas gifts (I lack money, which they're aware of) but since she's hosting, I felt I should give her something. Thankfully, I had a JoAnn gift card which more than covered for the big ball of thread and the new hook I needed.

[badly_knitted]

It's looking great! Hope you get it finished on schedule.

Good luck with the placemats! How many are you making?

[althea_valara]

Hoping for six to eight, but five will do as that's the size of their family. I'll be busy!

[badly_knitted]

Very busy indeed by the sound of it! But it's such a lovely design, hopefully it will be fun to crochet.

[spiralicious]

Looking great and excellent work!

[m_findlow]

Looks like you've made amazing progress and nearly there now. Should be nice and snuggy.

[spiralicious]

I had plans for today, but I just couldn't stay awake for most of it.

I did manage to knit on both the drop stitch shawl and the full sized baby blanket a little while I did research for the Halloween Baking Challenge themed table for the table comm I co-mod.

[badly_knitted]

Sounds like you got a lot done despite being sleepy!

[spiralicious]

Thanks!