Check-In Post June 6th 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 10 rows tonight. This virus is really dragging me down so I want to try to get an early night.

[alafaye]

Trying to stay busy today to avoid thinking about how hot it is x.x

So did a painting with acrylics and I finally finished the butterfly cross stitch.





Work is slow so I'm playing with the water color pencils some, learning them. Looking forward to have something nice to share.

[smallhobbit]

You have the virus?

[smallhobbit]

The butterfly cross stitch is very pretty!

[smallhobbit]

I am making progress - I am halfway through my bandstand cross stitch. I've also done some more rows on the current square for my throw, although it's been a bit of a struggle. I'm working from a chart, which is fine, but many of the rows are similar but not identical, so it's easy to slip a row and several times I've got to the middle of the square - to find I've gone wrong and had to undo to practically the beginning again - it's a moss stitch border so that bit's fine.

[badly_knitted]

The butterfly is lovely, and I like your ship!

Looking forward to seeing what you do with the watercolour pencils.

It's been damp and less warm here.

[badly_knitted]

Not THE virus, just A virus, a sore throat. I'll survive.

[badly_knitted]

Well done with your cross stitch!

How annoying! Can you somehow mark which row you're on so you don't keep going wrong?

Owl progress

[wiseheart]

18 out of my 30 little paper owls now have their wings attached. This is the more crafty part of the project, as I have to synchronize the colours between owl body, belly and wings. But I'm getting there. And I've already used up a lot of my leftover paper scraps, so it's a really economic project, as I've mentioned before.

[wiseheart]

It must still be annoyong, though. Get better, soon!

[wiseheart]

You are amazingly versatile!

[wiseheart]

Oh, man, that sounds complicated. Good luck!

[alafaye]

Feel better soon

[alafaye]

Thank you!

[alafaye]

Thanks!

Yeah I'm just feeling it out and I know that there isn't anything wrong with the learning time I'm still meh about sharing it yet.

I hope your weather dries out soon! (Unless you need the rain...?)

[alafaye]

Aw thank you :)

[alafaye]

Yay for progress!

Re: Owl progress

[alafaye]

Ooo interesting. And thrifty!

[smallhobbit]

Hope you're better soon and back to 20 rows a day!

[smallhobbit]

The only way to do that would be to cross out the previous row and I may well do more than one square in that pattern.

[smallhobbit]

Thank you.

[smallhobbit]

Thank you.

[althea_valara]

Ten rows is still good progress! I hope you feel better soon.

[darkcedars]

Summer colds are somehow more insulting. Hope it doesn't last!

[darkcedars]

Oh that's annoying. I've used post-it notes to creep up and down a pattern before.