Check-In Post April 25th 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]

8 rows on my sweater, so that's three full pattern repeats and I think another half pattern, 14 rows, will see me to the armhole shaping; Yay!

I also got work done in the garden. Raked, put the stepping stones down, replaced the Aquilegias and other things I dug up a while back, and got the pansies planted. I hed 4 back which I put in a small tub for some colour up near the house.

Tomorrow, I will stir the contents of 50 or 60 old packets of seed together, annuals and perennials, (all of them well over 20 years old), and sprinkle them over the bare soil in the hopes that something will grow. You never know. I'm the eternal optimist when it comes to sowing seeds, although when I did this last year and the year before, I still mostly only had weeds growing.

[smallhobbit]

That's great the amount of progress you've made with your sweater, especially given how much gardening you've done. Good luck with the seeds!

[badly_knitted]

Thanks, I'm happy with progress.

I figure the seeds deserve a chance. Some of them might still be viable.

[medievalrosalie]

I was just going to say exactly the same thing!

[badly_knitted]

Thanks!

[verdande_mi]

What kind of pattern is it?

Garden :D It's a bit too early to start properly here, but I have lots of seeds waiting for it to become warmer.

[badly_knitted]

It's a diamond lace pattern, very pretty and delicate.

I think England is quite a bit further south than where you are, so April is a good time to get plants in and seeds sown here.

[verdande_mi]

Beautiful pattern :)

I did plant some seeds inside, sunflowers and coleus, and May is here soon and hopefully with it, heat. April have been cold!

[badly_knitted]

Thank you! I love diamond patterns.

Lovely! I hope they do well for you.

April has been colder here than it usually is too.