Check-In Post August 18th 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

[wiseheart]

I worked a bit on embroidered card #23; just a bit, as I had some serious cleaning to do.

This is a deceivingly simple-looking design: an ilex wreath with a decorative bow and red berries. But the berries require bead work, and that's something I've hardly ever done in my crafty life, plus I'm working with metallic thread again, so this one will need a couple of days to be finished.

[badly_knitted]

Good luck with the beading, it sounds a bit fiddly.

[wiseheart]

Fixing beads on paper is a nightmare. I'd take fixing them on felt every time if I had the choice.

[badly_knitted]

It would certainly be easier on felt.

[badly_knitted]

Got a little bit of cross stitch done, finishing the palest pink on my rose.


This morning I got the garden fork out and dug up the last bits of honeysuckle that I could see from the lawn. There are still a lot of roots down there, but hopefully they won't grow. This afternoon I did some more path clearing. The path I've been working on makes a sharp turn at the house end between what should be a flower bed (currently full of weeds) and the raised section of garden I cleared earlier this year, which needs clearing again because I never got around to digging the roots up. (It has also spontaneously started sprouting cabbage seedlings). I cleared about half, but the rest is a tangle of brambles that I'll have to deal with first. Also did a bit of cutting back pf overhanging stuff on the main path. I need to get the saw out again, there are several big branches I'll have to cut off.

[wiseheart]

Cabbage seedlings? You can start a new career as a gardener! ;)

[badly_knitted]

From out of nowhere!

I used to grow and sell plants, until a vine weevil infestation put an end to it. I didn't want to sell anything potentially infested. I got them from buying an infected plant.