Check-In Post - September 9th 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: What piece of advice would you give someone interested in trying your favourite craft?


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

[wiseheart]

Despite the rain, I didn't give up my original plan of going to the craft supply discounter and did some comfort shopping, spending way more money than originally intended. Now I have chenille wires in the most lovely, striped hues, and lots of wooden beads that will serve as heads and hands of various handmade puppets. I think I've covered my needs for years in that area. No actual crafting got done, but arranging one's supplies is important, too, right? Besides, I did a lot of writing, so there's that.

[yarnofariadne]

Getting fun new supplies and writing are excellent uses of your day!

[badly_knitted]

Sounds like you stocked up on useful items! Securing supplies is very important, we can't craft if we don't have the necessary materials. Writing is also very important for those of us who write =D

[illariy]

Word on the street is that buying supplies and actually crafting are two separate hobbies *cough* But it is a fact that without supplies, we can't craft and the chenille wires and beads sound wonderful. I bet you are going to make many beautiful handmade puppets with them. And I must say it is for sure fun to go craft supply shopping. :D

Congratulations on also getting some writing done, and a lot of it at that, yay! Hope that this is the start of a great crafting week for you.

[wiseheart]

Word on the street is that buying supplies and actually crafting are two separate hobbies *cough*

Ain't that the truth! I so love my beautiful, beautiful craft supplies, especially craft paper of all sorts. Sometimes I think it's a good thing I have so little storage space (even though I keep complaining about it), or else we'd be swamped over with these things.

[illariy]

OMG, hard same! I still live in a flatshare and love it even though most people my age live in their own flats or even bought a house. I do think if I lived in a bigger place, I would just fill it with even more stuff and feel the silent to do list even more of stuff kind of whispering "craft with me, when are you going to craft with me???". So far, craft paper and stationery have been my weakness but I want to get back into textiles, too. Been mending my clothes so far, it's been fun and hardly any space but I want to make something to wear again.