Check-In Post August 9th 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: What is your most essential piece of crafting equipment?


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[badly_knitted]

I did go out in the garden for a little while today, just cutting back some brambles and removing some of the dead and dying honeysuckle from the shrubs. Then I gathered some blackberries for a neighbour because there are still loads of ripe ones and more to come.


The second rose design is finished, and I've started the third, which is a pink rose. The second was pink too, but leaning towards the purplish shades. This one is more light pink.

[wiseheart]

Fifty shades of pink? *g*

[badly_knitted]

Not quite, only 4 or 5 per rose, but they're not the same shades for every rose...

[wiseheart]

Let's start with a photo of embroidered cards #15 and 16:



As you can see, I'll have to add some more glitter to the left one; one last fingerprint remained invisible for the naked eye but showed up rather brutally on the photo. *sigh*

I've also finished Card #17 today - unfortunately, I made an annoying mistake right at the beginning but only realized it when I was all but done. I decided not to unpick the whole thing and managed to camouflage the mistake fairly well, but it still annoys me. It was a new and rather difficult pattern, to which I didn't have a detailed template and had to go by instinct. Well, I'll know better next time... hopefully.

[badly_knitted]

Fabulous! The shooting star I think works better with the scattered glitter than it would without. The second card looks very complicated, but very effective!

[wiseheart]

Actually, the second card proved less complicated than I had feared, although I had to look closely which way I had to go. As for the shooting star, that dark grey background is really dull indeed, but I didn’t want to throw away a perfectly good piece of cardstock. In these packages there always are a few sheets I would never select myself, so I have to be creative when using them. ;)

[badly_knitted]

Dark grey works well for space and night sky.

I have a lot of grey aida for cross stitch, and I never know what to use it for. It came in a mixed lot of colours and counts.