Check-In Post - September 13th 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 piece of advice would you give someone interested in trying your favourite craft?


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[badly_knitted]

No cross stitch again today. I was trying to get something written for a challenge, but the idea I'd settled on for the prompt meant I had to re-watch the episode it centred on while taking notes. Before I knew it, the afternoon was almost gone. At least I got the story finished and posted.

[wiseheart]

Which episode was it?

[wiseheart]

Frosty, the snowman, aka Christmas card #28. I'm quite content with this one:



The next card promises to be a tad complicated again, so I was happy with this quick and easy one.

[badly_knitted]

Babylon 5, The Geometry of Shadows. I love this one. I love the whole show though.

[badly_knitted]

He's adorable, such a happy snowman!

[wiseheart]

B5 was an interesting show. There were parts I absolutely love, others... not so much. But it was definitely worth watching. I have the whole thing on video.

[badly_knitted]

I've had the DVDs since they first came out, an re-watch every year at least once. There are episodes where the main plot isn't great, but even those have something in them that I like. I needed some very specific details of Londo's interactions with the techno-mages for my fic, so although there are whole sections of dialogue I can quote along with the characters, I needed to re-watch the episode to get things right. That's season 2, episode 3, and I'm halfway through season 3 in my latest re-watch. Not that it was a chore going back to watch that one again =D

[readera]

It's very cute! I love the hat.

[readera]

Last night I tinked back the 2 rows I messed up in my sock & knit them correctly.

No knitting today but I got some chores done this morning. I made some chicken stock & cooked some dried chickpeas for dinner later.

[badly_knitted]

Great that you fixed your sock mistake.

Sounds like your dinner will be good =)

[wiseheart]

I'm more of a Trekkie, but I've written B5 fanfic, too; short pieces, mostly. Then there's the ungodly long, still unfinished Kansas series, which is a B5/ST Voyager crossover... I'm currently on Part II. which is planned out for 53 chapters, and I'm still just in the middle. But at least Part I is finished. One should count one's small blessings.

[wiseheart]

Thanks. I like this pattern, too, one finds the best ones on Pinterest.

[wiseheart]

Well, he has his hat, his broom and lots of snow... what else would a snowman need?
I considered giving him a carrot nose but the colour would clash with the background horribly, so I decided against it.

[wiseheart]

It is always good to catch mistakes in time. But chicken stock is a lot of work. I've never made it myself.

[badly_knitted]

I grew up with Star Trek, the original series, and will always love it, but I must admit B5 just blew me away and is my favourite SF series. I write short pieces occasionally, but I still write more Torchwood than anything.

I'm always amazed that you can weave fandoms together and create such huge stories. I can't do that. I forget what I've written.

[badly_knitted]

Wise choice. *nods*

[wiseheart]

My oldest SF love is the original Battlestar Galactica. And crossovers are my not-so-secret vice. *g*

As for huge stories, I'd actually love to be able to write short things. That way probably more people would read my stuff, and potential beta readers wouldn't run for the hills, screaming.

[badly_knitted]

I loved the original Battlestar Galactica, and I have that on DVD too.

I'm not good at writing crossovers. I've done a couple, but it's not something that comes easily to me.

I guess that means we kind of envy each other a little *grins* I did write one lone Torchwood fic, over 80k, but that was hard and I made up the plot as I went along. I find short pieces for prompts so much easier. Take a prompt, open a fresh document, start writing, and see what happens. Most times I only have the vaguest idea of what I'm writing, I let my characters just figure something out. Plotting something out just makes me lose interest in writing it.

[readera]

Ironically I did not catch my mistake this morning. I made blueberry scones & forgot the sugar. Ugh. I didn't realize till after halfway through eating the first one.

I love chicken stock & use it in lots of things. I have a few tricks to make it easier. I save chicken bones, skin, or carcass from roasted chickens in the freezer. Raw or cooked chicken bones I save both. I also save vegetable scraps like garlic skins & carrot or celery ends in the freezer too. Then when I'm ready to make stock I stuff the chicken & veg scraps in my instant pot & fill it with water. Then I let it go for at least 45 mins to several hours. Then I strain & put it in mason jars in the fridge. The straining & putting away is the part that is a pain for me.

[badly_knitted]

Oh no! Bet those scones were disappointing!

Sounds like you have making chicken stock down to a fine art.

[spiralicious]

He came out so well. I especially like how you did the broom.