Check-In Post August 16th 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 have managed to do a bit of cross stitch! Finished the first shade of pink on this rose and started the second.


Also started to clear out one of the greenhouses. There's a lot of junk in there as well as empty plant pots and two large tubs I want to put in the shed for coal storage, if I can get them out without them breaking. Some plastics get brittle from prolonged exposure to sunlight. First I have to move things so I can get at them though, and that's a slow process thanks to a lot of big spiders *shudder* I'm trying to be sporting, giving them time to hide somewhere else before I continue.


The rest of the afternoon was spent clearing almost the last bit of path. There's still one more small patch towards the end nearest the house, and some honeysuckle still in the lawn, I'll have to get the garden fork out to deal with that, but most of the path is done! Yay!

[wiseheart]

You are fairer to the spiders than I would be! That's a lot of work again; but I'm glad you could squeeze in a bit of crafting time.

[badly_knitted]

Spiders are useful, they're just not appealing. I can co-exist with them as long as I don't have to see the big ones.

[darkcedars]

A ton of garden work again! Congrats on getting to a greenhouse.

[badly_knitted]

Thanks! There's so much junk in there though, and several panes of glass are broken. So many plant pots in there too, and spiders love making their homes in them.

[wiseheart]

One more card done. I'm not very happy with it, although other people might not notice the annoying mistakes I made. Still, the pattern isn't pretty enough to redo it, so it will have to do.

[badly_knitted]

Ah well, not everything works out the way we'd like. At least you gave that one a try.

[wiseheart]

I have done this pattern before without problem. The heat must be bad for my concentration.

[badly_knitted]

Not surprising really. It's hard to think when you're overheated.

[darkcedars]

Yeah, probably no one else will know. Too many patterns to do one you don't like again though.

[wiseheart]

Exactly!

[darkcedars]

I worked on the trivet yesterday and today I finally got the second coat of paint on the bathroom done.

Wednesday night we had a storm that, in the course of 10 minutes, ripped down a bunch of trees and power poles. We were out of power for 23 hours. The damage in my yard is less than many others, but this weekend I need to use the pole saw and get a couple limbs that are partially detached in the burr oak.

[badly_knitted]

Yay for trivet time and painting!

That must have been one heck of a bad storm, short but fierce. Glad you're safe and have power back, be careful cutting those branches down.

[wiseheart]

Sounds dangerous. Be careful when you go out with the pole saw!