Check-In Post June 4th 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.


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[badly_knitted]

I've finished the cross stitch on the first pressed flowers design and done the backstitch around the leaves and stems of the first coneflower. Still got a lot of backstitch to do, but so far so good.


Also tested out the perle thread on the 11 hpi aida. Not going to work. The thread is too round and my stitches were lumpy and uneven. So I still don't know what I can use it for =/

[yarnofariadne]

As expected, a much simpler row tonight - only took about 45 minutes. Whee!

[wiseheart]

It was a good day. I've finished the last page to the baby book:



All I still need to do is to bind the book (which is considerably easier with paper books than with felt ones) and I'm done.

[wiseheart]

Perle thread - if it is what I *think* it is - makes excellent pom-poms. Assuming that you need pom-poms...

[wiseheart]

Go you!

[badly_knitted]

Yay, well done! How many rows do you still ned to do?

[badly_knitted]

How lovely! Good luck with the binding!

[yarnofariadne]

34 rows, plus the strap which I don't anticipate taking more than an hour or so!

[yarnofariadne]

Best of luck with the binding! It looks lovely.

[badly_knitted]

I don't at present, but I suspect this thread would be too stiff to make good pompoms. I really don't know what to do with it. I researched it at the manufacturer's website, and it's apparently used a lot for Hardanger embroidery, which I don't do, and CAN be used for cross stitch, but I think I would need 8 hole per inch aida for it to be usable. It's simply too bulky and too stiff.

[badly_knitted]

So another month or so to complete the knitting. You can do it!

[yarnofariadne]

Yup! We break up for the year on the 19th of July so that's when I'm aiming to have it done by.

[spiralicious]

I'm checking in now, as I don't trust myself to remember to do so later.

Yesterday and today, I've been working on catching up my pumpkin moods for moodthemeinayear. I'm happy to say, I've only got 10 left out of the 57 we've done so far. That is not counting the 3 new ones for this week I haven't looked at yet.

Yesterday was card making with Lynne. She was in genuinely good spirits. Her only complaints were she didn't like how the dog's haircut looked and how long her son's smoking breaks are. (I think he has wised up and has told her he's going on smoking breaks and using his cellphone out of sight, as while she doesn't like how long he's gone, she finds the smoking much more acceptable.) The only sort of glitch with the card making was in the week between my visits, Lynne's son accidentally broke one of the tape runners, which are in low supply and it had a lot of tape left in it, because of this, I spent some time making it useable while they were busy with their cards, even though it's not really fixable. (It works, you just have to manually make sure it ejects the spent plastic, not wrap around and adhere to the unused tape.) Lynne noticed this and got stuck on why would I fix it instead of just throwing it away. We were on a loop for a couple minutes until she managed to rephrase and ask why not just get a new one at the craft store and I gently reminded her the store closed 10 years ago and there isn't a new one. She was then able to move on.

After cards, her son showed me the supplies he found for 4th of July cards. He is REALLY set me designing a couple different ones for us to do together. I took pictures of what he found and I did some hunting of my own for coordinating supplies. Lynne kept trying to get me to take everything I touched home with me. I explained to her that it needed to stay there so we could make cards later. She did send me out the door with 2 empty scrapbook albums in the end.

Hopefully, I will come up with something.

[spiralicious]

Excellent work on the flower crossstitching!

That's too bad about the perle thread :(

[spiralicious]

Woot!

[spiralicious]

Excellent work! The page is very cute. Good luck with the binding! Sending extra good thoughts to your fingers.

[wiseheart]

Thank you, although binding paper books isn't hard on the fingers... just fiddly. But keep those extra good thoughts for the time when I return to the felt book. ;))

[wiseheart]

She really keeps you on your creative toes, doesn't she? At least she was in good spirits - that had to be a blessing.

[wiseheart]

Thanks. I think I'll leave that for the weekend; I need to gather my (barely existent) inner strength for that part.

[wiseheart]

Thanks. I'm glad to be done with the individual pages. Starting a new book is always so exciting, but the last leg of the creative journey just drags, as a rule.

[badly_knitted]

*cheers you on*

[badly_knitted]

Well done with your mood theme, and also well done with the cardmaking sessions, you're doing well at keeping Lynne mostly on track. Her son seems to have really gotten into cardmaking. And well done to him for finding a way to use his phone by pretending to take a smoking break. Very sneaky, but if it causes less friction...

I'm sure you will.

[badly_knitted]

Thank you!

Yes, it is. I was hoping I could make use of that and the 11 hpi aida together, but it wasn't to be.

[tielan]

Well, I just started a new new project...

[badly_knitted]

Oooh, exciting! Good luck with it! Another quilt?