Check-In Post February 14th 2024

[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.


This Week's Question: Who do you most enjoy making things for: family, friends, yourself, a special someone?


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]

I've done the measuring of the sleeve and decided 10 more rows should be enough, but that will have to wait until tomorrow. I need to fic what I was writing earlier because I managed to change tense halfway through. I hate when I do that.

[wiseheart]

You need to "fic" it??? :)

[badly_knitted]

LOL! FIX it! Just shows I don't see what I'm typing, just what I MEANT to type!

[wiseheart]

I know that! I'm releasing one of my old Torchwood fics at the moment and have just discovered the following: "I thing the best thing is..." *g*

[badly_knitted]

Oh, aren't typos fun?

I once posted a fic in which Jack was immoral instead on immortal. As the person who pointed it out said, it works either way. The worst thing though is when I'm thinking one word but type something else entirely. Then I have to try to figure out what the word was supposed to be.

[wiseheart]

Haha, yes! When I'm transcribing my hand-written stuff to the computer, sometimes I can't read what I had written, and then I'm scratching my head, trying to find a word that would actually fit the context. *g*

[badly_knitted]

I don't hand write if I can avoid it. My handwriting is so bad, especially when I'm jotting quick notes.

[spiralicious]

Good luck with your sleeve!

And good luck with your editing.

[badly_knitted]

Thanks! The editing went well, and the sleeve is still waiting!

[sister_raphael]

10 more rows sounds good!

[badly_knitted]

Yep, the sleeve is nearly finished and the changes I made to the increases have made a much better, wider sleeve than in the pattern. I like to be able to wear a blouse underneath my sweaters, so I hate too tight sleeves.

[wiseheart]

No crafting today. I was alternating between home and the hospital all day.

[badly_knitted]

You're rushed off your feet, but your mum takes priority, which is as it should be.

[spiralicious]

Hugs

[sister_raphael]

You can only do what you can do. Take care of yourself.

[jupiter2932]

No crafting for me today, between a packed workday and writing.

[wiseheart]

Writing is good!

[jupiter2932]

It is! I'm not complaining :)

[badly_knitted]

None of us seem to be making much crafting progress at present, we're all distracted with other things.

I was writing for an old comment_fic prompt today and ended up with over 1700 words. Messed up my tenses though so I need to sort that out. Too long to be be posted to comment_fic anyway.

[jupiter2932]

Oh, it's so fun when you just get sucked into a fic like that, though :). That's neat.

[badly_knitted]

And I added a couple hundred words while editing it, so it's not far off 2k. It's sort of Ianto / Owen friendship, with drunk Owen a lot of insulting...

[jupiter2932]

Oh, that sounds fun! Good luck finishing it :D

[badly_knitted]

Thanks! I think it still needs some work, it's set while Jack is off with the Doctor.

[sister_raphael]

I'm getting small things done but feel like I'm not keeping up. Had today off paid work for writing but was so fatigued I spent most of it on the couch. Messed up tenses are the absolute worst.

[badly_knitted]

I did manage to get it sorted, I think, while adding another 200+ words, lol!

[wiseheart]

It is the fault of the English language, really! My native Hungarian functions perfectly with just three tenses: past, present, future. Period. Everything else is in the context. *g*

[badly_knitted]

I usually stick with the simple tenses, but I started the fic in present tense then slipped into past tense. I got it sorted.

[spiralicious]

Writing totally counts!

[althea_valara]

I guess I stole everyone's crafting mojo...

So far today, I have done:

* 36 minutes on the doll
* 49 minutes on the stocking
* 47 minutes on the Nordic Stripes blanket
* Another 39 minutes on the doll

...and I'm about to work on the doll some more!

I want to take the doll to Stitch Club tomorrow and work on it there, but if I'm going to do that, I need to get past the neck/shoulders because those parts require concentration. Problem is, I usually insert the eyes before I start the neck decreases. Eyes were supposed to come today, but I've been tracking them and they're not going to come until late tomorrow, after Stitch Club.

But I just grabbed another doll I have in progress, and I *should* be able to insert the eyes by putting my fingers through the arm openings. It'll be a bit of a stretch but should work. So I am going to continue work on the doll in a few minutes. but first: a break to post this/check other social media.

[spiralicious]

You may have stolen everyone's crafting mojo, but you put it to good use ;)

Good luck with the doll at Stitch Club and later when you put the eyes in

[sister_raphael]

woo hoo! Look at you go!

[badly_knitted]

You're being amazingly productive, keep it up! *grins* It's good to have at least one person here making positive progress to encourage the rest of us to knuckle down.

Sucks that your eyes are going to arrive late (and that is a really weird sentence to type, lol!) Good luck with everything!

[wiseheart]

Go you!

[spiralicious]

I am home! Where there is no chicken shit to shovel in the rain! No doggies with strict feeding and bedtime schedules!

I am also a little tipsy.

I actually got a fic polished up and posted at the halfamoon challenge at the last minute. It was something I wrote for 100 days of Halloween Happy, but never posted, but it still counts.

I also made it through book club without getting in a fight with anyone. The book was a bit divisive.

Tomorrow I have errands and my other book club (it's called the Pub Grub Book Club and meets at a Lord of the Rings themed bar), which I should stay up and prepare for, but I think its bedtime.

[badly_knitted]

Yay for being home with no ,more chicken and dog responsibilities. That sounds like a very pampered pooch.

Also yay for getting a fic posted!

And for avoiding book club fights. I could never handle being in a book club, having to read a particular book.

Good luck for tomorrow!

[spiralicious]

Thanks!

[wiseheart]

A LotR-themed bar sounds awesome!

[spiralicious]

It is! I do miss their original location, but the new one feels like more of an adventure getting there, which is only fitting.

I hadn't been in since they changed locations, so I was a tad skeptical. The original location was a bit out of town to get there and they had decorated the inside so it would look like a bar in the movies and there was a big map on the wall. Their new location is in the middle of town and much smaller, but the trek to get there adds to the ambience. You walk into the building, which houses 5 or 6 other business on the street level and have to find the steep concrete staircase that leads underground and weave your way through the dark hallway (which in the right mindset, are reminiscent of tunnels), until you find a literal hole in the wall that seems to be glowing. You go inside a tiny hallway and it opens up to the very small bar (the bar itself seats 3 people and there are 2 tables that max out at 6 people each and it would be a very tight squeeze). The walls are painted a yellow that makes you think of gold and there is a mural that takes up most of the back wall.

[badly_knitted]

Sounds amazing!

[spiralicious]

It really is!

[sister_raphael]

A LotR themed bar. WOW! I bet that was fun!

[spiralicious]

It was! I hadn't been in since they changed locations, so I was a tad skeptical. The original location was a bit out of town to get there and they had decorated the inside so it would look like a bar in the movies and there was a big map on the wall. Their new location is in the middle of town and much smaller, but the trek to get there adds to the ambience. You walk into the building, which houses 5 or 6 other business on the street level and have to find the steep concrete staircase that leads underground and weave your way through the dark hallway (which in the right mindset, are reminiscent of tunnels), until you find a literal hole in the wall that seems to be glowing. You go inside a tiny hallway and it opens up to the very small bar (the bar itself seats 3 people and there are 2 tables that max out at 6 people each and it would be a very tight squeeze). The walls are painted a yellow that makes you think of gold and there is a mural that takes up most of the back wall.

[sister_raphael]

I finished the blue silk cote eyelets for the brooch pin and I've cut out the crowned A's to go on the red and gold surcote. I've had a big project dumped on me and now I need to sew for that too, so I'm a stress mess right now, possibly made worse as the flue type thing hasn't quite gone away and I'm just not getting better.

[badly_knitted]

Well done with your progress! And ugh for the lingering flu thing. Hope you'll feel better soon.

Good luck with the big project!

[sister_raphael]

They ALL feel big at the moment. *sigh*

[badly_knitted]

I'll bet they do *hugs*

[wiseheart]

You are unbelievable! Your workload would kill a whole company of slaves in no time!
Get better, soon. *hugs*

[sister_raphael]

Thanks for the encouragement! I'm having an early night tonight!