Check-In Post - January 1st 2025

[badly_knitted]

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL!

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: If you're making any, what are your crafting resolutions for 2025?


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[bunn]

Happy New Year!

I've been scrolling past this community for so long, but today I do actually have an update to report! Each year I carve a Christmas decoration in the wood from the previous year's tree.

This year is going to be a larger one, because it's a full cross-section of the bottom of the trunk, which I'm kind of regretting because that is HARD wood and thick too. But I hacked away at it with my chisels while watching the Victoria miniseries, and I think I now have it the right shape and size, and can start refining the surfaces down to something I can carve a design on . I'm thinking of a water-pattern, maybe a wave on one side and a puffin on the other (my carvings are often a bit nontraditional for Christmas, I have several dragons two Green Men and a Neolithic Venus figure. But they are all pale wood, so they look Christmassy in the tree when lit by the lights!)

[badly_knitted]

Happy New Year! So pleased you decided to drop in. You don't have to have anything to report in order to join in, you know. You're still very welcome.

What a marvellous idea! I really like your plan for this year's ornament, I love puffins. (I also love dragons, of course. Who doesn't? Any chance of posting a picture of some of your previous ornaments?

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

That sounds like an amazing tradition! Welcome!

[spiralicious]

That sounds amazing

[yarnandglue]

Oh wow, making an ornament from the last year's tree is such a neat idea!