Check-In Post - February 3rd 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: Have you ever made a Valentine gift or card?


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[wiseheart]

I started on the third elephant and even finished it to about 80 per cent. She's very... floral, and I think I'll call her Ellie (very original, I know). I've got more of the same fabric (Granny's old gown) to make a similar one. Then I'll probably declare the elephant herd complete. So far we have Fanny and Fleur finished, and the fourth one will probably be called Fluffy, unless I come up with a better name. I might even take a group photo when they are all finished. *g*

As to the question: no, I never have. Valentine's Day doesn't really have a tradition over here, even though the shops have been trying to push it upon us in the last decade or so.

[badly_knitted]

Yay for Ellie! How about Lola for the fourth one?

Valentine's day is so very commercial, which I dislike, the shops use any excuse to persuade people to but more chocolates or things they don't need.

[wiseheart]

Lola sound good. I’ll reserve Fluffy for a future elephant made of some really fluffy fabric.👌

[badly_knitted]

Yay! I mean calling a non-fluffy elephant Fluffy can be an ironic use of the name, but it fits better for the genuinely fluffy.

[matsushima]

I love elephants! Do you have any photos of the herd-in-progress?

[wiseheart]

There is a pic from the first one a couple of entries back, but I intend to post more, soon.