Check-In Post November 15th 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 now have 4 eary meeces! Sewing the ears on isn't easy, but I'm succeeding, although sewing lime green ears on a lime green mouse is a bit hard on the eyes >.<

The ears are a bit bigger than needed, so for the next batch of meeces I'll make slightly smaller ones.

[wiseheart]

You can simply declare them space meeces. ;)
In Hungarian (and German) bats are called "leather mice" - perhaps yours are related?

[badly_knitted]

Leather mice, what a great name for bats!

The could well be meeces from outer space!

[peaceful_sands]

They'll each be individual with their own character with differing ears. I bet they look great.

[badly_knitted]

I'm not sure 'great' is the word I'd use... Interesting, perhaps.

One now has a tail, but it's thicker than it should be because I've forgotten I only use two strands for a mouse tail as opposed to the three I usually use for other twisted cords. I'll get it right on the next one.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Oh my goodness! Meeces with ears! Meeces pieces!

[badly_knitted]

Yeah, Meeces in pieces is what I have at present.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

I bought the stuff to make a felt zombie and printing the pattern but haven't gotten round to actually cutting it out and making it.

But I did finish a nice autumn puzzle. Bread & Butter Farm, 1000 pieces, Charles Wysocki.

[wiseheart]

This is lovely!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you!

[badly_knitted]

Your zombie will get there eventually. You've got plenty of time until next Halloween!

Meanwhile, that's a lovely puzzle!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Yes, I hope to get to it sooner, but very true.

Thanks!

[peaceful_sands]

Well done on the puzzle. You'll have everything ready for the zombie when you do get to it.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you! Yes, I need an alternate crafting universe where I can devote time to it.

I've promised a cookie pic, haven't I?

[wiseheart]

Here are the first finished cookies:



From the left: macadamia cookies, banana cookies (the dead frogs got a straw hat with flowers to look better), spikesgirl58's double ginger cookies (disguised as spicy red apples), hazelnut cookies, peanut-chocolate cookies and, in the front, triple orange cookies. Meaning that they contain orange peels, both fresh and candied, orange aroma and real orange juice, as well as orange blossom aroma. They are even covered with orange icing and sprinkled with orange flavoured sugar. It sounds a bit much, but they really taste fantastic, for all that they look like shapeless little pancakes.

For this comment I chose a Bilbo icon because baking is so very Hobbit-ish. *g*

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[badly_knitted]

Oooh, yummy, especially the double ginger and the orange ones!

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[wiseheart]

The orange ones are exquisite indeed. But all of them are yummy one way or another.

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[stonepicnicking_okapi]

A beautiful display. I have to commend you on the frog ones! They look very fun.

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[wiseheart]

Hilarious, aren't they? They looked so desperately ugly - so much like dead frogs indeed - in their original state that I really needed to do something to improve their looks. ;)

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[peaceful_sands]

Yum - they look and sound amazing.

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[wiseheart]

I'm really content with the way they turned out. On to the next batch!

[althea_valara]

Saturday I accomplished three things:

(1) Three rows on the blanket.

(2) Finished the hat I was crocheting!


(3) Made a bath pouf!



The pouf counted for Nerdopolis (one of our challenges this month was the color Yellow). I crocheted it while listening to KupoCon's online convention for Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker, the newest expansion in my MMORPG that's releasing soon!

Sunday: all my creative energy went towards dinner. I rarely cook so it takes a lot out of me. I had to shop for ingredients, too, so it was a chore. I made Salsa Rice Enchiladas (recipe in this entry) and white corn with green chilis. I did feel a bit bad not working on the blanket, but I just didn't have the oomph.

Today: Two rows on the blanket, and a bit of crochet on another hat.

I'm hoping to really buckle down and get a lot done on the blanket in the next few days. I'm also planning ahead to Thursday, when I will be going to Stitch Club at my local library for the second time (the first time I went was right before the pandemic closed everything down). The blanket's too bulky to bring with, so I need to come up with something to bring, hmm.

[peaceful_sands]

Well done on your progress on the different projects. I hope you enjoyed your special lunch - it is exhausting cooking something that takes lots of effort.

[badly_knitted]

Well done! The bath pouf is lovely!

Good luck with getting more of the blanket done, and have fun at Stitch Club with whatever you end up taking to work on!

[wiseheart]

That's a lot of things done on a single weekend! Go you!

[peaceful_sands]

I had changed my mind on Sunday about how I was sewing the squares for the blanket together and so have put them into batches of 10 and made 4 strips of 10 - 5 wide 2 deep in colour schemes. The squares were made as a mix of 2 colour squares and then single - so each ten has 5 x 2 colour and 3 of 1 single colour and 2 of the other. Last night I finished the last set of 10 which hadn't quite been done, and then I bordered two of the strips in a very pale yellow. My plan now is to border the other two tonight (hopefully) and then either try to crochet them together or I'll sew the strips together. Then I just need to border the whole thing - so it's at least 2 or 3 more days work. I do like the effect of adding the border - it seems to give the blanket a bit more stability.

[badly_knitted]

That sounds like a good layout for your squares, and I like the idea of doing a border for each strip.

Good luck with putting the strips together!