Check-In Post - January 2nd 2025

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


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

[badly_knitted]

I had my Cuttlebug out this afternoon, playing with some of my new cutting dies and a stack of old Christmas cards. It was fun, and I only had one disaster when the card and the die slipped out of alignment. A few slight deviations from perfect, but nothing too serious. Positioning of the die does tend to matter more when cutting a section from a picture though.

[peaceful_sands]

Sounds like you mostly had fun - do you have a plan for what you have cut? I'm going to have to go and look up exactly what a Cuttlebug is (I have a picture in my mind of what it does and what it looks like but I think the 'what it looks like' may be more bug like than reality!)

[badly_knitted]

Most of my dies are good for making frames I can use around my stitching, and the Christmas card bits are also good to use in making new cards, so that will be their main uses. I made some Christmas card before Christmas, using die cut squares to back some ready-made printed toppers, so I might do some more of those later in the year.

The Cuttlebug does look a bit buglike, when the sides are lowered like a pair of wings to form the platform. It's a new little die cutting machine, although it doesn't take the full width of A4 card, That's probably the only real downside. I'm having fun with it now I have a better selection of dies. Still figuring out how to separate the more intricate cutting dies from the cut pieces of card though, especially with some of the Christmas tree dies.

[wiseheart]

Thanks for explaining what a Cuttlebug is. I was wondering but didn't want to look like a total ignorant and ask. I'm asking too many stupid questions already. *g*

[badly_knitted]

You should have asked. I sometimes forget that not everyone knows about die cutting machines. There are videos on youtube, if you want to see what they're like.

[yarnofariadne]

It sounds like a mostly successful afternoon! I hope you enjoyed it.

[badly_knitted]

I did. I wish I had more room to set things out, but I got quite a bit of cutting done. Still haven't tried all the cutting dies!

[spiralicious]

That sounds like a fun afternoon! And hurray for only 1 disaster!

[badly_knitted]

Thank you! Even the disaster might just be salvageable with some careful snipping.

[spiralicious]

Nice