Check-In Post April 19th 2021

[badly_knitted]

Hello to all members, 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.


Today's Question: No question today.


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[badly_knitted]

Only 4 more rows because my thumb hates me tonight. I was digging earlier, pulling roots and breaking up hard clods by hand, and my thumb didn't appreciate it.

On the plus side, I have now completed one 28 row pattern and I managed to avoid mistakes on my second twist row.

[smallhobbit]

Sorry about the thumb but glad you've done one set of the pattern.

[badly_knitted]

It's an annoying thumb, but I need it even if it doesn't work very well.

I'm pleased to have made it that far!

[smallhobbit]

I was given a set of Anchor threads for my birthday (ages ago) so I decided the time had come to use them. So I hunted through my cross stitch magazines for a pattern and then realised I needed more colours which I've now ordered. And I've made a start on the picture.

[badly_knitted]

Yay! I use both Anchor and DMC, although I don't have a full set of Anchor.

What design are you doing this time?

[smallhobbit]

This was a set of 18 threads, so a good breadth, but not enough for the pattern.

It's the bandstand at Tenby. The magazine had a set of four Tenby patterns, so I may also do the one of the harbour.

[badly_knitted]

Those sets are good, but you seldom find you've got all the colours you need.

Oooh, Tenby! We went on holiday there one year when I was in my early teens. I remember the harbour, but not the bandstand. It was over 40 years ago though, and my memory is like swiss cheese.

[annofowlshire]

I’ve been crafting a little bit in the needlework way, mostly it’s been ALL THE GARDENING. (And a bit of writing. I have a novel nibbling at my brain so some of my needlework time has been going to writing things down.)

Seedlings and seeds went into the ground and into patio/hanging pots this weekend and yesterday. I hope they survive the frost this week that totally wasn’t on the forecast two days ago >_<

Sorting out for the next round in the coming weekend...

(I detail it more on my journal which is access locked these days but I’m easy going about who I add.)

[smallhobbit]

I've been impressed with all your gardening.

It always used to be said that garden centres made money because they sold bedding plants in April and then sold replacements in May after the frost had got the first lot. The principle still applies!

[badly_knitted]

The garden takes priority at this time of year, I know. I still have to finish getting my plot of ground ready for seeds. Thanks to the unseasonal freezing cold and snow earlier this month I'm further behind than I like.

Still, at least you've managed to squeeze in a bit of needlework. And kudos for novel planning. I stick to writing short fanfic, because I find long pieces too daunting. The only long fic I ever wrote took over a year. Good luck!

[annofowlshire]

I still have a lot of plots to dig! But I’m being freeform about it—if I put the tomatoes in first and then lay the stones around them later, that’s fine for this year.

We plan to do partial raised beds/terraces in next couple of years because the sloped beds we inherited are already a bit hard to work on and we aren’t getting younger. ^_^;

Novels are my natural length of story (and I’ve done a lot of them), but I haven’t put serious time into one for the last few years. (Partially it’s the having a baby thing, but also my creativity turned in other directions for a while, too.) I currently write fiction/story scripts for my day job, so it’s actually helping in a sense of making me think about developing a novel in a shorthand way (dialogue, summary of actions/descriptions) that I can expand into full blown prose later when I have a bit more space in my life for it. (Sorry, I know this isn’t a writing comm.)

...I have too many interests and not enough time. XD

[badly_knitted]

That's the best way to be about gardening. Work with what you've got and make imporovements when time and energy allow. You'll get your raised beds / terraces when they get done, but that doesn't mean you have to wait to grow stuff.

Believe me, I know all about not getting any younger.

I seriously admire you for writing novel length. It has to be tough though, fitting it around writing as your day job.

There are no rules here about what to talk about, and anyway, writing is a craft too. One quite a few of us spend an inordinate amount of time on, lol! I haven't missed a day in... 8 years? 9? Something like that.

I too have too many interests and too little time *sigh*