Check-In Post October 5th 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.


If anyone has any questions of their own about the community, or suggestions for tags, questions to be asked on the check-in posts, or if anyone is interested in playing check-in host for a week here on the community, which would entail putting up the daily check-in posts and responding to comments, go to the Questions & Suggestions post and leave a comment.

I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

My pretty pillow

[wiseheart]

The fabric is a special Hungarian brand called "Kékfestő", which could be roughly translated as "blue dye". There are workshops where the fabric is still hand-made; a couple of years ago we visited the one in Tolna and I was deeply impressed. You can see a selection of their patterns here, as well as a short introduction to the workshop itself.

I seriously doubt that my little piece of fabric is hand-made, though, since I bought it in the Auchan supermarket as part of a mask-making kit. *g*

Re: My pretty pillow

[peaceful_sands]

What lovely fabric - the cushion looks fantastic

Re: My pretty pillow

[wiseheart]

I fell in love with the fabric instantly. :)

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[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Gorgeous blue! I love it!

Re: My pretty pillow

[wiseheart]

Thank you. As a rule I hate blue, but this fabric is just beautiful.

Re: My pretty pillow

[badly_knitted]

That's a shame, but we all have our favourite colours. Mine is yellow, but it looks awful on me so I wear a lot blues, pinks, reds, and black.

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[medievalrosalie]

It really is great fabric!

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[medievalrosalie]

There is no way you could turn that into masks! It's far to gorgeous! Love the cushion!

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[wiseheart]

My thoughts exactly. I made the mask using the template and pieces of an old bedsheet and saved the fabric for better use.

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[smallhobbit]

That it beautiful fabric - really stunning!

Re: My pretty pillow

[wiseheart]

It caught my eye at once, too - which is why I haven't turned it into a mask.

Re: My pretty pillow

[badly_knitted]

It's very pretty! I love patterns in shades of blue.

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[slightlymotheaten]

Oh wow, that's absolutely gorgeous!

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[wiseheart]

And to think that it was thrown together with lots of other mask-making kits with patterns like soccer balls and so on... I simply had to save it, hadn't I?

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[althea_valara]

That is so pretty!

Re: My pretty pillow

[wiseheart]

The pattern does it. :)