Check-In Post - November 1st 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: No question this week.


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[badly_knitted]

Posting at a more reasonable time tonight. Still exhausted from yesterday, and so sore. I love Halloween, but putting everything up then taking it down again takes forever.


I have finished knitting the second arm warmer, but I haven't cast off yet. Also picked out the colour for the next pair so I have something simple to work on during Strictly.


Last night I ran out of pumpkins so I'll have to get more knitted ready for next year. I was able to hand the completed arm warmers to neighbour and neighbour's daughter when they came round to see my display, however. They were both delighted =D I'll miss them when they move.

[wiseheart]

Losing friendly neighbours is a sad thing. You never know who will move in instead of them. At least they were happy with your work.

Allow yourself a break after such a hard day. You've deserved it.

[badly_knitted]

Very true. Always been lucky with neighbours that side, with one exception. I'm curious to know who will move in. Got lucky with the house on the other side after my long-time neighbour passed a few years ago. Lovely young couple there now, and his mother is also very nice. She's about my age, maybe a couple years older. Very tall, but so is her son, he's like 6 feet 7 tall. But such a nice guy the height isn't intimidating for little 5 foot me.

I still have my spook_me fic to finish, got another chapter sorted and posted but I didn't have the brain to work on it beyond that. I hurt all over, but I still made myself do my physio exercises. I've been very good. I stiffen up every time I sit down, but I can't stand for long either because my feet hurt.

[spiralicious]

That is a lot.

I hear you on the Halloween set up and take down. I'm convinced our neighbors that do the haunted house every year must secretly have magic elves helping them or something.

Well done on the arm warmers.

That's wonderful your neighbors liked their arms warmers. It's a shame to lose good neighbors.

[badly_knitted]

It really was. I still hurt all over.

I wish I had magic elves, lol!

Thank you! It really is. I hope the new neighbours will be as nice.

[spiralicious]

I hope you are feeling at least a bit better.

Magic elves would be so helpful.

Fingers crossed

[badly_knitted]

Still a bit sore in places, but improving.

[spiralicious]

That's good.

[wiseheart]

I did a bit of writing, started the second angel (made good progress, BTW), cooked lunch - and totally forgot taking a picture of the finished cards. Ah, well, tomorrow is another day.

[badly_knitted]

You'll get around to taking photos eventually. Well done for writing, and progress on an angel.

[wiseheart]

Photos are coming up tomorrow. I've already taken them. :)

[badly_knitted]

Yay!

[spiralicious]

Well done!

[spiralicious]

Last night, between trick or treaters and late into the night, I managed to not only write a Stargate Atlantis fic that was over a thousand words by hand, but also after rereading it, I discovered it fit not only Spook Me, as I had intended, but 5 other challenges as well. And by some miracle I got it typed on my phone TWICE, posted to AO3, edited, in the 6 appropriate collections, and posted to 5 DW comms that all use different posting criteria/headers (again, all on my phone) by midnight. And I only messed up one header, (that I still need to fix). It was a feat I shall never replicate or best.

Today, I knitted on the eclectic cable scarf for a few rows. I'd intended on writing for a few minutes for MiFuNoSo at ushobwri, but it's not happening.

I also did the last little bit of post bingo hosting stuff at allbingo (it's creative/crafting adjacent xD), got the names of who made bingo to the friend who makes the banners for us, and signed up to host again next year.

There is more I want to share, but I'm suddenly exhausted.

[badly_knitted]

My goodness, that was an amazing feat! Not surprising you're exhausted! Well done!

Also yay for progress on the scarf!

(I'm STILL writing my spook_me fic, but I did get the first chapter up in time to make the Master List, and the first 6 chapters are posted).

Hope you got plenty of Trick or Treaters!

[spiralicious]

Thank you!

I will not let it beat me! LOL.

You can do it!!

We had quite a few, mostly older kids, which was a surprise, but with the off and on storming we probably only had half as many as last year. So much leftover candy.

[badly_knitted]

You will succeed!

I'm making progress, my boys are finally starting to put a few dents in the monster.

Sometimes the older kids are the most fun. I'm sure you'll find a use for the leftover candy. Sucks that the weather was bad though.

[spiralicious]

Thanks!

You're getting there!

They are. I'm not sure why some people are so down on them. Most of it is gummy bears so... Yeah. It's probably not going to survive the end of the year. It used to be our normal weather that the big storms would start around Halloween (and you planned your costume accordingly), but it's been tame the last few years.

[badly_knitted]

Veeeery slowly, lol!

Gummy bears are popular, or so I've heard.

Autumn weather is fickle.

[spiralicious]

XD

XD They are popular with me at least. Also because it was the Haribo trick or treat pack, there are also many packages of sour gummy bats. ;)

It is indeed that.

[badly_knitted]

Oooh, sour gummy bats sound delicious!

[spiralicious]

They are amazing! The sour is incorporated into the flavor of the gummy, instead of being a powder on the outside of it. They taste like the fruit they are supposed to, except lip puckeringly sour. They also come in 2 sizes - the gummies in the tiny trick or treaters size packets are a little bit bigger then the eraser on a pencil, but in the 4oz packs, the bats are about 7.6 cm long and 2.5 cm tall, and the wings and body are 2 different flavors.

Sadly, Haribo only puts them out at Halloween.

[badly_knitted]

Oooh, now my mouth is watering!

[spiralicious]

They are so good!

[wiseheart]

Could we have a link - any link - to that fic, please? I'm a devoted SGA fan and want to applaud you to your mighty feat.

[spiralicious]

Of course! Here you go: https://archiveofourown.org/works/60231820

[malurette]

On the one hand yay Finally! a friend is asking me to knit them a scarf, similar to the first one I did for myself.
On the other hand I just lost said scarf. It wouldn't take very long to redo it But. The purple yarn I used back then as since been discontinued. The first substitute I found for it, too. The second one depends either on a 800 km trip to my parents' home region or on ordering online--with uncertainty on the exact colour and added shipping fees. Or, I could use the third substitute yarn I'll be using for their scarf too, but I'm not entirely happy with its hue.

[badly_knitted]

Both great news and a lot of frustration, by the sound of it. Why is it so difficult to get a really good purple yarn? I've been having trouble with that myself because they're all too pale. I hate when yarns are discontinued. Hope you manage to get something suitable.