Check-In Post February 2nd 2024

[badly_knitted]

Hello to all members, passers-by, curious onlookers, and shy lurkers, 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.


This Week's Question: Looking back at last year, which of your completed projects (or WiPs) were you most pleased with?


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

[darkcedars]

I haven't had crafting time for a few days, but today I'm doing a lot of plant stuff!

Started repotting the African violets - did 6 this morning (there are 17 indoor plants, 4 are not African violets).

I am doing the winter seed starting thing, where you cover the seeds with milk jugs to make a mini greenhouse.

[wiseheart]

I so admire people who can do plant stuff! Me, I've got the dead thumb. Plants literally die when I get too close to them. The only one that lasted longer than a few weeks was something called a dragon tree (in Hungarian anyway; I have no idea what it might have to do with dragons), but even that gave up after half a year.

[darkcedars]

It's probably the same here. Long thin leaves. Dracaena

[wiseheart]

I hoped it would last longer, us being kindred spirits (you know, dragons among themselves), but no, it didn't work.

[badly_knitted]

That's a lot of repotting!

Good luck with the seeds. What kinds are you growing?

[darkcedars]

Lavender, agastache, evening primrose, milkweed, magnolia climbing peas, parsley. I also tried to start some lemon balm again, but that keeps dying off.

[badly_knitted]

Oooh, lovely smellies! I adore evening primroses but have trouble growing them.

*Falls down laughing at the lemon balm* I have that stuff growing out of the bottom of the wall along my driveway! I'm forever ripping it out but it just keeps coming back. I can't get rid of it (I have it elsewhere in more appropriate places) and you can't get it to stay alive. Irony is alive and well.

[sister_raphael]

I only have one African Violet, but I do love them! Yours must be such a wonderful display with so many!