Check-In Post October 14th 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]

No cross stitch today, the afternoon was taken up with getting the fire lit, but I now have hot radiators! It will take a couple of days at least for the house to warm through, but it's less cold, and it will be nice to have hot water on tap without any messing about.


I did get some crafting in this evening though, I decided the best thing to do while watching Strictly would be to knit arm warmers, because I can never have too many of those. I'm 60 rows into the first of a pink pair, knitted with some double knit off a cone. It's not great yarn, I bought the cone many years ago and made myself a cardigan from it, which has faded down one side from exposure to the sun. Still, it will be fine for arm warmers. I also plan to make a teal pair, and another multicoloured pair since I think I have enough yarn left over from the last ones I made for another shorter pair.

[wiseheart]

Hot radiators and arm warmers are good! Go you, having done so much despite all that hard work with the heating.

[badly_knitted]

Thanks. It's been a tiring day. Fire lighting is a big job, especially since I had to burn several loads of twigs and paper first to make sure the chimney was dry and drawing properly. I was working on that on and off all day, then from 3pm laying a proper fire and lighting it, which takes the best part of an hour.

[wiseheart]

Gah! But at least you are properly warm now... aren't you?

[badly_knitted]

Warmer than before, but it takes a few days for the house to warm up completely. From now until late spring my life will be an endless round of cleaning out the fire and shovelling coal *sigh*

[spiralicious]

Hurray for hot radiators!

The arm warmers sound like they will be fun and useful.

[badly_knitted]

It does make a pleasant change, although it'll be a few more days before the house is really warmed through.

I already have many pairs, they're really long fingerless mitts, but they are always useful and I've been wearing them constantly for the last few weeks then I'm on my computer because they keep my hands warm.

Progress, progress!

[wiseheart]

The Velcro work on all 12 mini sewing kits is done. Now my fingers hurt, but I'm happy to have this phase behind me. I also started sewing the kits together and filling them with sewing utensils: needles, glass-headed pins, safety pins. Three of them are finished, I only have to add the thread samples. Yay!

Re: Progress, progress!

[badly_knitted]

Yay, congratulations! Excellent progress, and I bet you're glad to get the Velcro work out of the way.

Re: Progress, progress!

[wiseheart]

Oh yes, I am. Deliriously so! *g*

Re: Progress, progress!

[spiralicious]

Well done! You're making great progress! And hurray for the Velcro being done!

Re: Progress, progress!

[wiseheart]

And hurray for the Velcro being done!

The best part of all, every time!

Re: Progress, progress!

[spiralicious]

:D

[spiralicious]

I'm checking in now so I don't fall asleep while responding to messages like I did last night.

Not exactly crafting, but today at work I completed the amazing feat of creating 6 months of proper accounting ledgers from the world's most disorganized checkbook in 3 1/2 hours. What scares me is that I have been warned the next year's records are worse, but that is next week's problem.

Crafting wise, I knitted some more on the mitten I have going. It's pretty close to done.

I'm going to try to get some decorating done while my movie is on, but we'll see.

[badly_knitted]

Ah, falling asleep on your computer is never a good idea.

Well done! Sounds like you've got yor work cut out for you though, so good luck!

Yay for mitts and decorating!

[wiseheart]

Congrats! You are an accounting wizard!

[spiralicious]

Thanks!