Check-In Post - February 6th 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?


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]

It's been an annoying day, but I managed four rows on my jacket.

[wiseheart]

You are a real trooper!

[badly_knitted]

In the sense of battling on against adversity...

Which means you are too.

[darkcedars]

That's pretty good for a cruddy day.

[badly_knitted]

Thanks! It gets me to two pattern repeats, which is good.

[nagi_schwarz]

Sorry it’s been such an annoying day. Yay for progress on your jacket though!

[badly_knitted]

Thank you. At lest that completes the second pattern repeat...

[nagi_schwarz]

Finished another bookmark!

https://www.instagram.com/p/DFvhE6tSVJu/?igsh=eWNqenljNXBvbmdm

Now onto the stuffed bunny!

[wiseheart]

Beautiful! And yay for the stuffed bunny!

[nagi_schwarz]

Thank you! Will definitely share pics of the bunny once it's done.

[darkcedars]

That's lovely.

[nagi_schwarz]

Thank you!

[badly_knitted]

So pretty!]

Ooooh, BUNNY!

[nagi_schwarz]

Thank you! I am stupidly excited about making this bunny.

[badly_knitted]

Bunnies are awesome! I always preferred them to teddy bears when I was little. I still have several.

[wiseheart]

I was running around like a headless chicken all morning, then prepared things for tomorrow's cleaning and then slept another hour or so in the afternoon because I was deadly exhausted, so not much in the way of nice things was done.

However, I've made at least the second ear of Lola the elephant, so there's that.

[darkcedars]

Glad you got to do some, as I recall cleaning day wipes out the whole day.

[wiseheart]

Oh yes, it does. :(

[badly_knitted]

Ear's to you! Well done for fitting in some crafting despite all the other things you had to do.

[wiseheart]

If I waited for a day when I'd have enough free time to do my crafting in peace I'd never get done anything.

[badly_knitted]

I know that feeling...

[yarnofariadne]

Finished row 119 on the blanket!

[darkcedars]

That's great!

[badly_knitted]

Yay! Every row completed is one less to do!

[darkcedars]

I finished repotting the African violets today.

I also cleaned out my large project bag and frogged the trivet that I didn't have enough purple yarn to finish.

[badly_knitted]

Well done! How many do you have now?

Now you can use the purple yarn for something else.

[darkcedars]

Not counting the amaryllis, there's now 18 indoor plants. Only 2 are not African violets or an African violet cousin. I have some started from leaves last summer that I won't count until adult size.

[badly_knitted]

That's a lot of African Violets, especially as you have some babies too =)