Check-In Post - October 20th 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: Have you ever made something and then had no idea what to do with it?


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[badly_knitted]

Another day of rain all morning and sunshine all afternoon. I got another half dozen big docks from the edge of the lawn, the bit beside the path I dug the honeysuckle roots out of. Then I tried to get one out of the other side of the lawn, which was a lot more difficult and I didn't get the whole root. There are still a lot so I have to keep trying.


This evening I've finished knitting the first of the pair of arm warmers for my neighbour, I just haven't cast off yet.

[yarnofariadne]

Congrats on just about finishing those arm warmers!

[badly_knitted]

Well, nearly halfway, lol!

[wiseheart]

No rest for the wicked, eh? But at least you got to finish the arm warmers.

[badly_knitted]

Well, the first of the pair. I still need to knit the second one and sew them up.

[darkcedars]

We could really use some rain, cross your fingers for us.

Sound alike good steady progress overall.

[badly_knitted]

Good luck, I hope you get it! You can have ours.

Reasonable progress anyway.

[sister_raphael]

Question... I love honeysuckle! Why would you want to get rid of it?

[badly_knitted]

I also love honeysuckle, although this wasn't the scented variety, it was a heritage one with slightly furry stems, and I potted up several rooted pieces so I can put it somewhere more suitable. It had rooted into the path, completely blocking it, and into the lawn beyond, right down one side of the garden. It was also choking the shrubs and pulling branches down with the weight. Totally out of control, so I had to cut down and uproot quite a bit to reclaim the path and save the shrubs. It took most of the summer. I prefer the scented honeysuckle, but that also needs to be in the right place and under control, not blocking the steps, so I'll have to dig up and move some of that next year. Honeysuckle is my absolute favourite scent.

[sister_raphael]

Ah, I see!

[badly_knitted]

I wanted my path back. Hadn't seen it in 20 years! The honeysuckle growing there was my fault. I used to grow and sell plants, before a vine weevil infestation put an end to that, and I grew the honeysuckle from seed, it being a heritage variety. They were in pots, which I put on the path, and the never got moved when I stopped selling. They rooted through the bottoms of the pots into the path, then wherever the stems touched the ground, those rooted too, and before I knew what was happening, it had taken over. There's still plenty on the banking, growing through the shrubs, but the path is a path again.