Check-In Post December 19th 2023

[falkner]

Hello, lovely crafters! Welcome to our daily check-in post, where you can tell everybody all about your most recent progress (or lack thereof). Feel free to also chat with other members and generally enjoy yourself!

Check-in is not compulsory, you decide if and when to take part in these posts.

And for the optional questions, I will recycle the ones I used three years ago, and see how the answers have changed!

How much planning do you put in your projects? Do you immediately get started when inspiration strikes? Or you do meticulously plan everything in advance instead?

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Comments

[badly_knitted]

I got 40 rows done last night on the arm warmers.

Had hoped to do the last 40 rows today, but I phoned to order logs this morning thinking they'd hopefully be able to deliver after Christmas, and the guy says, How about this afternoon? He was going to be in my area for deliveries and there was a free slot on the delivery lorry. So I had a load of logs delivered at 2.45 which took me until after 4pm to move. Now I hurt from head to foot, and my hands ache, so finishing the arm warmers probably won't happen. But I have plenty of logs for the fire, so there's that.

Planning... really depends on what I'm making. I like to gather all the materials together before I start, if I can, but mostly it's a case of finding a pattern or making one up, then getting stuck in.

[spiralicious]

Logs are important! Hopefully, you will be less achy tomorrow.

[badly_knitted]

Mostly I'm just exhausted.

[wiseheart]

But at least it means you'll be warm in the foreseeable future, yes?

[badly_knitted]

Hoping the logs will last at least until the end of February.

[spiralicious]

:(

[falkner]

I know the (literal!) pain of moving a truckload of logs by yourself, good job on that! You definitely deserve all the rest.

[badly_knitted]

Thanks, I have to do it maybe 3 times a year, and I'm doing it by hand because I stocked up on coal over summer when the price went down, shoved a load in bags and buckets into the shed, and foolishly blocked my wheelbarrow in *headdesk* I couldn't even wheel the logs around the back of the house to pack them in where they'll stay dry, had to carry them all. I'm such an idiot, should have moved the wheelbarrow to the garage.

Hoping to finish knitting the arm warmer tonight.