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badly_knitted ([personal profile] badly_knitted) wrote in [community profile] get_knitted2024-10-04 07:11 pm

Check-In Post - October 4th 2024


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?


If anyone has any questions of their own about the community, or suggestions for tags, questions to be asked on the check-in posts, or if anyone is interested in playing check-in host for a week here on the community, which would entail putting up the daily check-in posts and responding to comments, go to the Questions & Suggestions post and leave a comment.

I now declare this Check-In OPEN!



wiseheart: (macika)

[personal profile] wiseheart 2024-10-04 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Poor you, that must be frustrating!
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[personal profile] darkcedars 2024-10-04 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm going to imagine that you are lurking around the edge of the house with a garden fork, ready to pour on any docks daring to show their leaves in the cleared zone!
stonepicnicking_okapi: flowers (flowers)

[personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi 2024-10-04 10:15 pm (UTC)(link)
Sorry about the fire cleaning. What are docks? I'm sorry. Google isn't helping.
stonepicnicking_okapi: flowers (flowers)

[personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi 2024-10-04 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! I knew it wasn't an autocorrect of 'ducks.' :)
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[personal profile] spiralicious 2024-10-05 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
Glad to hear your blister is healing.

You show those docks who's boss!
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[personal profile] spiralicious 2024-10-12 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
Oh no! Determined things, aren't they?
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[personal profile] darkcedars 2024-10-04 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
I just finished the main part of the 2nd trivet, so only 3 rows of surface crocheted petals to add on top.

Also, today I finished installing the sink, so the bathroom is completely back to functioning. Everything left is cosmetic (edging).

In weird news, someone stole my yarn delivery in the *maybe* two minutes between FedEx dropping it at my door and me walking to the door. The doorbell camera saw him, sent his photo to the police. Sigh.
darkcedars: magungensis african violet (Default)

[personal profile] darkcedars 2024-10-04 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
That was my thought - at least he got something he wouldn't want!

I'm going to need more kitchen cotton for dishcloths, but I've decided to sort my stash and make the baby gift basket in broad stripes of different colors.
stonepicnicking_okapi: okapi (Default)

[personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi 2024-10-04 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, congrats on the trivet progress. And wow! You installed a sink! Holy cow. That's amazing.
But damn about the thief. WHAT? That's awful. I had to just get a refund from a etsy seller because something never showed up but that was the postal service, not bandits. And on a FedEx delivery, too. I am so sorry.
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[personal profile] darkcedars 2024-10-04 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
It was pretty crazy. The police were all "why would he steal yarn" and my husband said "he doesn't know what is in the package, he just grabbed it."
wiseheart: (macika)

[personal profile] wiseheart 2024-10-05 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
The other sad aspect is that when they can not, all that pretty yarn will be thrown onto the rubbish heap. :(
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[personal profile] spiralicious 2024-10-05 05:42 am (UTC)(link)
Congrats on the trivet progress!

Also congratulations on the functioning bathroom! Way to go you, installing a sink. That is impressive.

That is a very bold and very fast porch pirate. I hope he got a very unfortunate cramp as well as disappointment at his haul.
stonepicnicking_okapi: after the funeral (afterthefuneral)

[personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi 2024-10-04 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
October is my favorite month of the year. A Halloween card I made for a friend.

stonepicnicking_okapi: after the funeral (afterthefuneral)

[personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi 2024-10-04 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you!!
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[personal profile] darkcedars 2024-10-04 10:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I also love Halloween. It looks great!
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[personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi 2024-10-05 06:14 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you
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[personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi 2024-10-05 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you!
wiseheart: (macika)

[personal profile] wiseheart 2024-10-05 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
It looks fantastic!
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[personal profile] stonepicnicking_okapi 2024-10-05 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you!!
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[personal profile] readera 2024-10-05 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
I finished mending one of my favorite pairs of around the house socks that was wearing thin in several spots. I ended up doing 2 darned patches on one sock & 3 on the other. I am glad with how they came out & that I can wear them again!

I realized how many clothes are in the mending pile so I'm hoping to work on those soon. I'm going to try one of my tank tops first so that if it looks bad its not a big deal.
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[personal profile] spiralicious 2024-10-05 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
Well done!

Good luck with your mending pile!
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[personal profile] spiralicious 2024-10-05 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
I'm actually awake enough to check in! Remember the place I was housesitting at in February with the very spoiled dog & the chickens? I'm back there and they now have double the chickens. The only creative thing I've done today was arranging the straw in the chicken coop after I cleaned it out.

While I've been here though, I've done a few rows on the eclectic cable scarf while half asleep and I put together a cardboard bank kit meant for ages 4+.

The bank box thing is described by it's packaging as "build and color your own velvet money box." Basically, it comes with a flocked coloring page and 6 markers. You color it and fold it up into a box. It makes a little monster that flaps it arms when you put a coin in. It's cute. I liked that it didn't require glue. It was considered a back to school craft, why I don't known, and I got it from the mark downs. The markers were of surprisingly good quality. It is also apparently a product of Canada, which explains a few things about the packaging, but does not explain why they decided to put the various warnings on the back in 27 languages, but included zero instructions. I did figure it out. Also, I am highly amused by the fact that all the English is labeled "Great Britain English," but it's the American spellings of everything.
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[personal profile] spiralicious 2024-10-12 05:51 am (UTC)(link)
It was! The no instructions at all was so weird. I figured it out with mild trial & error, but it was labeled 4+. I'm not sure how this would have played out with a small child. I'm also not sure why it was a back to school craft. I mean once assembled the bank is technically a little monster and has a backpack of school supplies, but it feels like a stretch just the same.

The chickens are definitely on the spoiled side. Yup, any eggs they laid while I was there was part of the deal, which meant an average of 5 a day for a week. I'm not sure what I would have done if all 9 were laying each day as they usually do.

Thanks!
spiralicious: Cereal Killer Mask (Default)

[personal profile] spiralicious 2024-10-19 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
It would make the most sense.

It is a lot of eggs. Normally, it would be baking, but the egg sizes very so wildly (4 of the chickens lay extra small eggs and one chicken lays absolutely giant eggs), it would require more math than I want to do to covert the number of eggs for a recipe. I've sent them along to my mother as she will find more uses for them.
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[personal profile] spiralicious 2024-10-29 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
LOL. Somethings it matters more than others and if these were not so drastically different in size, I wouldn't have thought twice about it. We hardboil eggs more than anything else as well.
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[personal profile] spiralicious 2024-11-06 06:28 am (UTC)(link)
Yes! They saved my day today.
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[personal profile] fred_mouse 2024-10-05 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)

Yesterday and today have been bad pain days, so I've been doing tiny tiny steps on craft, reading, and resting. What that has added up to is finishing trimming the lap quilt (or that might have been two days ago?), cutting and assembling the binding, and then attaching the binding. It has been ironed, and pinned, ready for hand sewing when my hands will put up with it. And, because I spent an hour and change voice chatting with Youngest, the crochet blanket is now on either the last or the second last row (there was going to be another colour, but this one looks so good; I'm deciding whether it needs a frilly edge or not).