Check-In Post March 13th 2021

[badly_knitted]

Hello to all members, 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

[m_findlow]

Gosh you have a lot of kit! I hope you have a good go of it because it sounds like you've got all the skills to make it work.

[annofowlshire]

Oh gosh, not really. At least not compared to what I used to have XD

When I left the States, I sold or gifted two weaving looms, a spinning wheel, a drum carder, a sewing machine, and enormous quantities of wool/other fibers, fabric, abandoned cross-stitching kits, and other crafting supplies (like beads and beading tools). All of the tools and supplies related to the dyeing business from my studio. And lots of other things I’ve forgotten about by now. My crafting supplies are growing on this side of the pond, but it’s still a fraction of what I used to have and if I’m not running a business I’ll keep it under some semblance of control.

But of course, back then I was running a full time fiber arts business, so it made sense that I had these things.

[badly_knitted]

It must have been a wrench to have to part with so much kit, but necessary I guess. Transporting it all from one continent to another would have been impossible.

[annofowlshire]

I haven’t regretted parting with it, to be honest. I needed to shed that part of my life for a while and build a new relationship with it. I knew I wouldn’t be running a fiber business on this side of the pond, at least not for some time.

I think we would have had space in the shipping container, but we were moving from a roomy American house to my husband’s bachelor pad in London and we knew space would be at a premium on the other side.

Now we’ve moved out of the city and have a roomy house again, I feel like I can start to rebuild a new collection of crafting supplies that fits my needs and desires now ^_^

[badly_knitted]

Now you can get just the things that you know you;'re going to use. It must be good to have the space again, and exciting to shop for your crafting supplies!