Check-In Post October 15th 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]

Managed to finish all the blue, green, and orange backstitch! All that's left now is the purple.

[wiseheart]

That's a lot! Congratulations!

[badly_knitted]

Yes it is!

Thank you.

[spiralicious]

Awesome!

[badly_knitted]

Thank you!

[wiseheart]

I attacked the mini sewing kits again - and finished five more! The current count is: eight down, four more to go. And the thread samples, twelve times three or four of them, plus the little cardboard... things around which to wrap them. I'm thinking white, black and blue thread, as those are the most commonly needed colours, adding one to each that would match the colour scheme of each individual kit, since they have slight colour differences.

Also, tomorrow will be cleaning day, and that means moving my storage boxes. That gives me the chance to re-find the colourfully painted apricot pits in order to fill (and close) the already finished little surprise boxes. I think I know where they are, but one can never be sure. Wish me luck! *g*

[badly_knitted]

Woohoo! The sewing kits will soon be finished, and the surprise boxes shouldn't be too far behind at the rate you're going!

[wiseheart]

I have to, if I don't want to run out of time!

[badly_knitted]

Hopefully you're enjoying this crafting more than some of the other things with deadlines.

[wiseheart]

Oh, I am! The fact that these are small things that don't take long to make, plus that I can switch from one small project to another before I'd get frustrated, helps, of course.

[badly_knitted]

That's one of the reasons making small things is so much fun.

[spiralicious]

So close on the sewing kits! You are making great progress :D

Good luck!

[wiseheart]

I must admit, it went better than expected, which is a huge relief.

[spiralicious]

Oh good :)

[tielan]

Handed off two quilts to recipients, both have been hanging around for a decade if not more. Each seems very delighted by their gift, so YAY.

Valley of Kings:


Classically Dead Simple:


Started sewing a toile for a dress pattern I was hoping to make for a frocktails event on Saturday, and will probably finish the toile but not the dress. So I'll probably end up wearing the toile.

It's been an education in sewing with sheers and slippery fabrics, though!

[spiralicious]

The quilts are beautiful.

Good luck with the toile and the dress!

[badly_knitted]

Both are gorgeous, so glad the recipients were pleased, it's good to have your efforts appreciated!

Yikes! I can imagine slippery fabric would be difficult to work with. Good luck!

[wiseheart]

Both quilts are so very beautiful! I could never make something like that.

[spiralicious]

I had been looking forward to trying to catch up on a few things today, but I ended up just not doing much of anything, not even in an enjoyable way.

I did finish knitting the one mitten and have started the first of the last pair I will be doing this month. Also it turns out, while I have been calling it the mitt-athon, it's actually called the mittalong. Every day is a school day.

Cross your fingers for me. The tech is supposed to come in the morning to fix the phone after no landline for 2 weeks. I should have gone to bed hours ago >.>

[badly_knitted]

Well done on the mitts! mitt-athon, mittalong, close enough!

Fingers are crossed! Hope you get your phone working again!

[spiralicious]

They sound so similar!

Thanks!

[badly_knitted]

Easy mistake to make.

[wiseheart]

Good luck! *fingers crossed* I'd be lost without our landline. Mobile phones just don't do it for me - of course, mine is a 16-year-old dinosaur...

[spiralicious]

Thanks! We were definitely in a pickle without it (and it's the second time we've been without service in 2 months). My mother is severely hard of hearing (around 80% hearing loss overall) and for phone calls depends on the government issued captioning phone that's attached to the landline. She does have a cellphone and she can text, but it's not good for phone calls for her.

Our phone that is hardwired to the landline in the kitchen is between 20 and 24 years old and I only know that because it replaced the rotary dial phone that came with the house when my mom bought it in the 70s and my friends made such a big deal about us finally having a phone they could figure out how to use.

[badly_knitted]

I'm glad your mum has her phone back, it must be so difficult for her without it.

Aw, poor kids not knowing how to work a rotary phone! We didn't even HAVE a home phone until I was 17 or 18, and then it was a rotary one for many years. I kinda miss it, but my hearing isn't great so I need one with an amplifier on it. Might be getting hearing aids next month!

[spiralicious]

Thank you! She is so happy to have it back.

Rotary phones definitely have a certain charm to them. I miss ours too. Yeah? They can be life changing! Depending on your type of hearing loss, they can be a big adjustment too (I say this with no personal experience, just from living with my mother and talking with friends who have them). I hope they work well for you :)

[badly_knitted]

Well, I won't have to wear them all the time, probably just when I go out or want to be on the phone, because that's when I have the most trouble. Hopefully they'll help.

[spiralicious]

They'll be great :)

[badly_knitted]

I hope so.