Check-In Post - September 17th 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]

It's a nightmare when that happens! I've got seeding weeds everywhere too, and more weeds in the lawn than grass. The last two summers have been so wet I haven't managed to get outside anywhere near as much as I would have liked. The lawn was under water most of last winter, which didn't help.

[fred_mouse]

In our case, we went away for six weeks over winter (our growing season), and then another week, and then another trip this weekend. We did have the offspring promise they would weed, but ah, I reckon they pulled one up each. At least the chickens keep the back yarn under control!

Having the lawn under water sounds a bit worrying.

[badly_knitted]

Ah, well, even a couple of weeds less is something I guess.

Yay, chickens! My neighbours have some =)

My lawn area is lower than all the surrounding gardens and it rained so much over winter that everyone else's garden drained into mine before the water would drain away. At one point, parts of the garden were under five inches. It wasn't fun. Not that the lawn seems to have suffered.

[fred_mouse]

5" of water!!!!!

[badly_knitted]

Only in a few places, it's not exactly level down there, mostly it was less, but I had to paddle down the garden to check that water wasn't getting into the shed, and in places the water was well over my ankles. Thank goodness for knee-length welly boots! Really hope it doesn't rain so much this winter. It hardly seemed to stop for months.