Check-In Post August 19th 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.

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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.


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Comments

[badly_knitted]

Taking a break from cross stitch tonight as the light isn't particularly good, and I have a sore finger. Why is it anytime there's a sore spot everything sharp keeps poking into it? Thorns, twigs, you name it. I don't want to stick my needle in it as well. Anyway, tomorrow's forecast doesn't look good for gardening, so I can spend the afternoon doing cross stitch instead.


Today I took the loppers and the saw out and cut back a lot of the branches that were getting in the way of the path. Also got more honeysuckle out of the shrubs. There's still more branches that will need cutting, and some holly I might have to cut back if I can't shove it out the way so that it stays put, but that's a job for another day.

[wiseheart]

Awww, your poor finger! How did you hurt it?

[badly_knitted]

Caught it on something, it's just a tiny cut but you know what they're like.

[wiseheart]

És, unfortunately. Better spare yourself further injuries.

[badly_knitted]

Doing my best to!

[yarnofariadne]

I'm so sorry about your finger! I hope it's better tomorrow when you get to the cross stitch. Well done on the outside work!

[badly_knitted]

Thanks. I think it will be, but if not... That's what sticking plasters are for =)

[jupiter2932]

Good luck tackling those shrubs :D Hope you have a great cross-stitching sesh tomorrow :)

[badly_knitted]

Thank you! I made good progress yesterday, but there's always more to do.

Considering how much it's already rained this morning, staying in and doing cross stitch is definitely the best idea.

[jupiter2932]

I hope the weather clears up for you soon! But cross stitching while it rains outside sounds nice and cozy :)

[badly_knitted]

It was very enjoyable. =)

I have to go out tomorrow so I'm hoping it stays dry them, but there is more rain forecast for most of the coming week.

[wiseheart]

I worked a bit on my complicated beaded card and did some research for the Enterprise AU - small steps but progress nonetheless. The stitched part of the card is now finished, as well as one trio of red berries/beads. Four more to go. *sigh*

I also selected the next two designs I'm planning to do: one is the baby Jesus in front of a Gothic church window, the other is Mary with a candle. Both look a lot easier than they really are; I've done them before and especially the Mary one is maddening, with all those complicated vectors. But it's beautiful once it's finished, so I'll give it another try. At the first time I messed up the counting and that led to rather disappointing results. The Baby Jesus one is my own work, the Mary one found on Pinterest, just FYI.

I'm thinking of making them on two different shades of purple, although perhaps lighter colours would do better as background. But I do have these pieces of cardstock cut to the right size (have had them lying around for years, in fact), so I don't want to cut up new sheets before they'd be used up.

[badly_knitted]

Well done for progress! Good luck with the rest of the beads.

Oh, those both look lovely! I can see jhow they would be complicated though.

[wiseheart]

Yes, they are. But sooo pretty!

[badly_knitted]

Really pretty!

[yarnofariadne]

Well done on your progress!

[wiseheart]

Thank you.:)

[sister_raphael]

They definitely do not look easy. Very pretty though! Good luck!

[jupiter2932]

Oh, both of those designs look so lovely!

[yarnofariadne]

Four more rows on the baby blanket - 23/119 rows done!

[badly_knitted]

Well done! You're about a fifth of the way!

[wiseheart]

You fight the gargantuan task well!

[sister_raphael]

Cheering you on from here!

[sister_raphael]

I've got half the hooks sewn onto the roses curtains. Yesterday I was tired and just went to bed really early with a book which is a whole lot better than I expected it to be.

[wiseheart]

Speak about pleasant surprises! You deserved that break. 😴

[badly_knitted]

Halfway there! Great progress!

Glad the book is good.

[sister_raphael]

And it's a research book, so I thought it would be full of good info but a bit boring which is often the case with text books, but it's great.

[badly_knitted]

That's awesome!

[sister_raphael]

I've finished the hooks on the roses curtain. I mean, there are more to do, but the main biggest one is done so that's what needed to be done. Back to work on that kountusz. Yes. That's still not finished.

[badly_knitted]

Yay, well done on finishing that section!

Good luck on the kountusz, hope there's not too much more to do on that.