Check-In Post - November 18th 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.


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!

Comments

[badly_knitted]

Only 10 arm warmer rows tonight leaving 10 to go, because I have a stupid tiny wound on the tip of one finger that's making it difficult to hold my knitting.


Annoyingly, this morning when I went to get something from the airing cupboard, the middle and bottom hinges on the folding door decided to break. Thankfully the top one held, otherwise half the door would have fallen me. I managed to use the pin from the middle hinge to fix the bottom hinge back together as a temporary measure, but I need to find replacement hinges and with my dental assessment appointment on Wednesday, I don't have time to go digging through everything to see if I've got any spare hinges. On the plus side, these hinges have been in use for over 40 years, so they've done pretty well.

[wiseheart]

What a day! *hugs*

[badly_knitted]

Thanks, things can be a nuisance *sigh*

[spiralicious]

*hugs* That is quite the day you had. Good luck with your upcoming dental appointment. I hope the temporary hinge fix holds until you have time to find some hinges.

[badly_knitted]

Thanks, I'm keeping my fingers crossed. The cupboards were built by my mom many years ago, and while they're nothing elaborate, they've been great. She figured everything out by herself after a couple of woodworking lessons. She was amazing!

[spiralicious]

Wow. She definitely was amazing.

[badly_knitted]

She was unstoppable until the heart attack.

[wiseheart]

I did some minor crafting today: I've decorated another emptied hand creme pot to turn it into a gift box for small gifts and made a mini pencil holder. This one isn't very spectacular, but it's decorated with some lace my Grandma made back in the early 1970s, so it has historic value. *g*

Otherwise, I was still occupied with cookie decorating and cookie boxing, which ate up all my free time but was absolutely worth the time and the effort.

[badly_knitted]

Pretty!

And yay, cookies!

[wiseheart]

Cookies make everything better. *g*

[badly_knitted]

I agree =)

[spiralicious]

Well done!

[wiseheart]

Thanks. Sometimes we just have to be content with small progress.

[fred_mouse]

I found the start of the crochet arm warmers, and decided that I wasn't enjoying the project, and frogged it. That ball of yarn will go back in the stash (it is a lovely stiff cotton / bamboo yarn and wasn't really suitable, I just like the colour). Instead, I've started doing some knitted ones, and I've done cast on and six rows. It's quite a thick yarn, and while my knitting is a bit uneven, it is a good opportunity for practicing rib stitch, which I don't often do. It is a large ball of yarn I've picked to use up (some kind of 'super saver' option, possibly 200g) so if this works as something I can get done in a reasonable amount of time, then I'll probably make more. I suspect that at least some of the household will want to steal them.

I also picked up a small applique project from buy nothing, and am going to have a poke at that.

And! I went into the sewing room, and pottered around. I haven't achieved 'do something' but I did pull out some fabric scraps that are allocated to a specific project, and started thinking about how to make progress on that.

[spiralicious]

Sounds like time well spent :)

[badly_knitted]

Woohoo! Excellent progress! Cotton isn't ideal for arm warmers because of the stiffness. The yarn you're working with now sounds much cosier. I don't know whereabouts in the world you are, but if your weather is anything like mine, you might well find your arm warmers going missing as someone else decides to try them on.

Have fun with the applique and your other project!

[fred_mouse]

I'm in Western Australia - heading into first summer, although it is taking its sweet time about it (while the English imposed the four season year, there are six seasons identified by the First Nations people, which include what are translated as first summer and second summer).

[badly_knitted]

Nice! I could do with two summers... I'd just as soon skip winter entirely.

[spiralicious]

Lynne cancelled card making today, which I kind of expected when I found out her daughter was in town to go over documents, but her daughter was able to fill me in on the Thanksgiving plans so I know when to check on the cats.

While watching Poirot, I knitted 2 more rows on the wingspan shawl and 15 more rows on the eclectic cable scarf.

[badly_knitted]

Well, good that you know when the cats will need you, and it gives you a week's break to relax a bit.

Great progress on the shawl and scarf!

[spiralicious]

Yes, both are helpful. It gave me a chance to do a load of laundry and take a much needed nap yesterday as well.

Thanks!

[wiseheart]

That's a lot of knitting on one day. Go you! (I like Poirot, too; are you watching the series with David Suchet?)

[spiralicious]

Thanks! (I am! Our library has all the DVD box sets, so I've been trying to do a complete rewatch from the beginning.)