Check-In Post June 12th 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: Do you like to finish one project at a time or do you prefer having several on the go?


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 didn't get much stitching done last night, the sky was so overcast I didn't have good light, and on top of that, my thread kept tangling. Today has gone better. I've finished stitching the central flower, and all the shadows around where the four smaller ones are to be stitched. The light is much better tonight, so hoping I can start work on one of the small flowers.


I'm also still preparing the cut pieces of fabric, hoping to get that all done within the week because I still have to cut more fabric for the rest of the designs I have picked out. I think I got a bit carried away...

[yarnofariadne]

I'm glad today's been better, and hope the evening work goes well!

[badly_knitted]

It has gone pretty well =D

[darkcedars]

The benefit of getting carried away picking out projects is you don't have days of "I want to work on something but can't decide."

[badly_knitted]

Yep, now I just have to choose WHICH of my projects to do next...

[wiseheart]

Haha, I know the feeling! I've got four unfinished projects on my plate right now, and paper embroidery is *not* one of them, alas!

[badly_knitted]

You'll get them done eventually.

[spiralicious]

I'm glad to hear the light was better today. I hope it stays in your favor.

Good luck with your fabric prep!

[badly_knitted]

So do I. We could use more sunshine and less gloom. Still so cold, winds coming down from the arctic.

It's boring and tedious, but it's necessary to make it easier for me to find where I am on my stitching.

[yarnofariadne]

One more row on the beach cover-up!

Do you like to finish one project at a time or do you prefer having several on the go?
I'm a chronic one-project-at-a-time-r. I technically have two right now but I cannot switch between them; the cover-up has to get finished before I go back to the baby blanket, and then I'll continue having one project at a time.

[darkcedars]

Ahhh almost there!

[badly_knitted]

Great progress!

Something like the beach cover does require concentration. Getting distracted by other projects wouldn't be a good idea.

[spiralicious]

Hurray! One row closer!

[darkcedars]

I've been painting the last bits on the garage today, as mulberry season is over. In about half an hour I'll go take down the painters tape and see if I need to do any touch up.

I have picked out a thread project to work on next, but may not start it today.

Weekly question - this varies a lot for me. If I have a hard project in progress, I like to have a dishcloth to switch to on days my hands are less cooperative.

[badly_knitted]

Congratulations om the paintwork, barring any touching up.


Ooh, what sort of thread project?


That makes sense =)

[darkcedars]

The built-in cubbies in the living room have glass shelves. I've decided to make little rectangles to cover them. Try out lace stitches.

[badly_knitted]

That's a great idea for testing out new stitches!

[wiseheart]

It's always good to have easier projects on the back burner.

[spiralicious]

Well done!

That makes a lot of sense.

[yarnofariadne]

The dishcloth method makes sense! It's nice to have something easy for a break.

[wiseheart]

I started to work on the next batch of lavender sachets (different fabric this time), but didn't get too far. Family obligations got in the way. Well, it isn't urgent. I'm glad I haven't started the book binding as originally planned; stopping *that* half-way would have been extremely inconvenient.

[darkcedars]

The sachets sound so much better interrupted project.

[spiralicious]

Oh wow, yeah, having to stop the book binding would have been... Unfortunate.

Good luck with the lavender sachets, the family obligations, and the book binding.

[badly_knitted]

How many sachets do you think you'll make altogether?

Yes, good thing you weren't working on the book binding, that's best done without interruptions.

[spiralicious]

I'm going to break this into 2 check ins, just because I worry my check ins are always excessively long. Not sure if this is better or not.

Today was a death by a thousand duck bites kind of day. There were a couple craft positive things I did get done today.

Father's Day is this weekend and I managed to get some collage materials for a card to go with the present. I am going to probably have to make an oversized card to accommodate them though.

When I realized that book club was cancelled and I seemed to be the only one that didn't get the memo, I checked out some DVDs to watch while I knit, mostly in hopes to get back to knitting. They were series 2 of Poirot and season 1 of nos4a2.

And while I was waiting for my ride to pick me up again, I chatted with the girl working the library desk. She is fascinated with how badly I crochet and really wants to see the amigurumi dinosaur, if I ever finish it. It's a bit of extra motivation.

[badly_knitted]

I hate days like that, but it sounds like you managed to make it productive anyway.

Enjoy your DVDs. I hadn't heard of nos4a2 before, but it sounds intriguing.

Good luck with the dinosaur!

[spiralicious]

Thanks!

Funnily enough, I never got to that one that round, but I actually have it again right now.

The dinosaur still mocks me.

[badly_knitted]

Bad Dinosaur!

Enjoy the movie!

[spiralicious]

Thanks!

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[spiralicious]

Monday card making with Lynne wasn't exactly a disaster, but I can't say it went entirely well. We all got lovely lighthouse themed cards done, Lynne seemed especially enamoured of hers, but getting there was a struggle. I suspect Lynne was overly tired and that was most of the issue. She was in a type of mood that requires adjectives I'd rather not use on a public post on the internet to describe a person I've been friends with for 2 decades. However, before I got there, she had culled an entire closet of treasured clothing that she'd been holding on to that are just to big for her and the housekeeper was there, which had to be a bit overwhelming and tiring. Before I left, the housekeeper wanted to apologize to me for working while I was there, but I told her never to worry about that. She needed to do the things she was doing and despite Lynne's many complaints, she was not in the way. I don't know what all she did that day, but she was working before I got there and was still working when I left.

While I was there, I also managed to put together 2 more card kits. Normally, I wouldn't have pushed to get a second kit done, but Lynne and her son were both pushing to do 4th of July cards and I did not feel like trying to find all the supplies on that theme to put something together a second time.

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[yarnofariadne]

It sounds like you've been really busy!

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[spiralicious]

Indeed!

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[badly_knitted]

That sounds like a rough day, although you did get cards and new kits made, so that's good. Being overtired can make people with dementia or related issues less cooperative. It was like that with my mum after her stroke. You did well to keep her on track.

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[spiralicious]

Thanks