Check-In Post September 17th 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]

I am officially worn out. Spent three hours throwing all the loose planks and rotting wood into the skip, and that's before much has been taken off the big shed. That's still got to be demolished, starting tomorrow.

The skip didn't arrive until around 3pm, so I knitted 10 rows on the arm warmer while I was waiting, then 12 on the sleeve this evening. My hands are tired so I was slower than usual, but I got there.

Tomorrow will probably be a different matter, but I'm hoping to still keep going with my sleeve.

[smallhobbit]

That's a lot of hard work. I'm impressed you still managed to knit!

[badly_knitted]

Frankly, so am I, but I had a feeling if I didn't my hands would seize up. Hopefully the knitting helped.

[wiseheart]

Good luck!

[badly_knitted]

Thanks, I'll need it. My arms feel like they might fall off.

[peaceful_sands]

I am so impressed - I did a lot of physical garden work yesterday as part of a volunteer project and ended up in so much pain that I cleaned myself up and went to bed - so I'm so impressed by how much you've managed to do of both the gardening and the knitting each day. Wish I had your stamina. Hopefully I'll catch up a bit at the weekend. I really enjoyed the day with the team though despite the end personal result - and we could see a massive difference in the areas we'd worked on.

[badly_knitted]

I nesrly finished myself off yesterday, totally overdid it since I'm not in good health and I have no muscles, but things have to be done. I'm getting to sit down for now while my friend is demolishing the shed. He can do all the heavy work, I'll do the easier stuff.

Well done with your gardening, it sounds like a big project, I'm sure it'll look great once it's finished.

[smallhobbit]

I've been busy over the last few days, so have just done a minimum amount of crafting to ensure progress on major projects. Today I'd deliberately had a quiet day, and spent plenty of time crafting, including finishing the next square of my throw - I've moved onto the botanical garden set, with the first being 'allotment'. I also sewed up the first eight squares having decided how I want to set things out, and knowing that leaving all the squares to the end would be tedious.

[wiseheart]

Quiet days can be surprisingly productive... assuming one can have them. ;)

[smallhobbit]

It's been a particularly busy week, so I made a point of having one.

[badly_knitted]

That's pretty, and quite unusual!

Yes, I imagine having to sew a lot of squares together one after another would be very boring.

[smallhobbit]

Thank you. The pattern doesn't show that clearly, but I think it will be fine with all the others.

[peaceful_sands]

Love the colour combinations in this square. Well done on getting started on the sewing up, you're absolutely right that it can be tedious to leave it all to the end.

[smallhobbit]

Thank you. The whole throw will be made of different squares in those colour combinations.

[wiseheart]

The little mittens with the snowflake pattern are all finished and I cut out the patterns for the next batch: little felt hearts. I also cut the ribbons for hanging to the right size and even made the first lolly stick snowflake with dark green stars on all ends and small, shiny craft stones in their middles. There'll be photos later when I've made more from both things. My storage space on the iPad mini has nearly reached its limit, so I'll have to take photos of more things at once.

[badly_knitted]

Sounds like you're doing really well with the mittens, and YAY for the first lolly stick decoration!

Good luck with the photographs!

[wiseheart]

Thanks. :) I've been deleting photos from the mini that are not craft- or baking-related, but the sad truth is that I've got less and less of those. Crafting and baking has taken over my life. If only writing would be so persistent!

[badly_knitted]

It's good to have several hobbies though, and you do still write, even if it's not every day.

[smallhobbit]

They all sound lovely!

[wiseheart]

Thanks. They've turned out rather pretty, actually.

[peaceful_sands]

Well done on your progress, that's a lot to get through! I look forward to seeing your pictures.

[wiseheart]

I'll wait until I have at least two full sets of the same patterns; that time I can save some storage space on the mini.