Check-In Post - March 11th 2025

[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.


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[badly_knitted]

I've done the first 8 rows of the sleeve decreases!


Also spent an hour outside working on the first of the back garden buddleias. These are both much bigger than the one out front because they didn't get cut back at all last year (the weather in March was atrocious) while the out front got cut back to half height in autumn because it's in an exposed spot that gets a lot of wind. Both the back garden ones are also on the raised bankings at opposite sides of the garden, so I had to clear some other stuff just so I could get to the first one. It will take at least one more day top finish cutting that one back before I can to the third one, but the forecast is for rain for the next few days so I'll just have to hope there are a few clear spells.

[peaceful_sands]

You’re doing well with both the knitting and the buddleias - I don’t envy you that work! I have been looking at my garden over the last few days and the work that needs doing (nothing so major as yours) - today I took the secateurs to a fuschia but the rest will have to wait.

[badly_knitted]

Well done for getting out in the garden! Fuchsias are lovely, but some of the hardy ones can be seriously invasive.

Thanks. The best thing about buddleias is that they can be cut right down and the just grow again, so I can be as rough as I want with them.

[wiseheart]

You can work out your frustration on them. *g*

[badly_knitted]

Yes, it's very satisfying.

[nagi_schwarz]

Way to go on reaching the sleeve decreases, and also all the work in the garden!

[badly_knitted]

Thanks! I was out there less than an hour because it's quite chilly, but any progress out there right now is good progress.

[spiralicious]

Woot!

Way to go on tackling the buddleias. Hope the weather gives you some clear spots so you can keep going with it.

[badly_knitted]

Thank you! It keeps clouding over outside so I'll have to play it by ear.

[peaceful_sands]

I am going to do a bit of work on either the socks or the dreamcatcher cross stitch but it likely won’t be much as I’m not feeling great. I did manage to set up and start a painting kit earlier in the day. Hopefully I’ll be able to chip away at that over the next couple of weeks.

[badly_knitted]

Get some rest and feel better soon *hugs* Maybe you overdid it in the garden.

Enjoy your painting. What will the picture be?

[peaceful_sands]

The fuschia was flowering when I cut the garden back in autumn and I wanted to enjoy the colours, so I left it and now it was a matter of cut it before it grows too much so it wasn’t really a big job. It wasn’t the garden, I went for my daily walk and pushed it in terms of trying to walk at a normal speed and go a bit further than I have been.

[badly_knitted]

Ah, yes, that would do it. Bad idea to push too hard too soon. Try to rest and relax.

[wiseheart]

You poor dear, I hope you'll get better, soon. *hugs*

[peaceful_sands]

Thanks. It’s my own fault - I shouldn’t have tried to walk so far at a normal pace. I misjudged.

[nagi_schwarz]

I hope you feel better soon. The painting kit sounds lovely!

[spiralicious]

*hugs* Rest well.

[althea_valara]

67 minutes today, finishing mom's phone stand. Whee! Might do more crafting, too. The afternoon sun is shining on my bed so I am thinking of curling up and basking in it while working on the cardi.

[badly_knitted]

That sounds like a very pleasant way of spending some time, basking in warm sunshine, and crafting.


Well done for finishing the phone stand!

[peaceful_sands]

Sounds like a lovely idea.

[nagi_schwarz]

Way to go working on the phone stand! Hope your afternoon plans went well.

[spiralicious]

That sounds wonderful.

[wiseheart]

I've made one more egg basket out of a toilet roll. Hopefully, next week I'll get some collected rolls from a friend and can start mass production. ;)

[badly_knitted]

I hope the supplies arrive in a timely fashion!

[peaceful_sands]

Steady progress. All practice runs for when you start the mass production process 😃

[nagi_schwarz]

Very nice! Sounds like you're really rolling along on the egg basket project!

[spiralicious]

Well done!

[nagi_schwarz]

Mum watched the kiddos so I went along to the Tuesday crafting group and got in two good hours of knitting and socializing, so I put...many...rows on my sweater scarf! Also mum and I spent a good chunk of time transferring Little Sister's clothes into Big Sister's room and rearranging all the clothes in the drawers so everything fits, and also weeding out old clothes that Little Sister no longer fits to hand down to Baby Sister, and sorting through a bag of clothes that one of the ladies at crafting group gave me that will fit Little Sister. Also we reorganized the nursery in anticipation of Baby Sister and sorted out a bunch of baby clothes I'd saved from Little Sister (which apparently after almost two years I never moved out of the nursery closet oops).

[spiralicious]

Sounds like a good day :)

[badly_knitted]

Glad you got to go out for some relaxing socialising!

Sounds like you and your mom have done a lot of organising getting things ready for Baby Sister. I hope the older two won't mind sharing.

[spiralicious]

Turns out, I didn't have to go to the beach to get rocks today. Apparently, the friend my mom has a weekly bananagrams game with collects rocks from the beach on her daily walks and gave some to my mom for me. I washed them today so I can prime them tomorrow.

I also tried swatching my watercolor colored pencils, but none of my paper seems to be big enough to do the whole set on one page. It was fun playing with them though.

On yesterday's check in, I forgot to add that I finally did project #16 of the sketchbook project things. We were painting bubbles by laying down a circle of color and using water to draw the color into the circle. Mine are not nearly as saturated as the ones in the instruction video, but they look like bubbles and the watercolor colored pencils did work a lot better than regular watercolor paint would have, as predicted.

As is probably obvious, I was finally able to do the #16 project because Mom found my watercolor colored pencils. After I had been hunting for them previously, I had narrowed it down to one craft supply box they were probably in, but it had some other boxes on top of it and I was too tired by them and decided it was a battle for another day. My mom decided to surprise me by looking for them in the box for me while I was a Lynne's and they were in there.

Way to go Mom.

[badly_knitted]

Yay for free stones!

So glad your mum found your watercolour pencils for you. Your sketchbook bubble project sounds fun =)