Check-In Post - February 24th 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: What kind of crafting supplies can you never resist buying?


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]

Only 8 rows today, but the increases are out of the way now, just need to work straight for another inch or two, but I'm nearly to the end of the ball of wool.

[wiseheart]

Still with the small steps: I've finished one sachet and applied the lace trimmings to another one.

Oh, and as for the question of the week, there's the shortlist:
- beautiful craft paper
- craft punches
- patterned felt
- pretty buttons
- felt appliqués
- little accessoires like small bells, etc.

As I said, this is a shortlist. There are lots of other things that tempt me terribly. *g*

[marinarusalka]

This blanket is going to take forever -- I've been working on it all weekend, and have only managed ten rows. Not too surprising, I guess, when each row is 464 stitches...

Regarding the weekly question, I absolutely cannot resist cute stitch markers. It doesn't help that I'm always losing them, so no matter how many I buy, I keep coming up short on big projects.

[nagi_schwarz]

I have only thought about crafting all day.

The closest I came to crafting was...pre-ordering a book of crochet patterns (which just confirms my answer to the weekly question about the crafting supplies I cannot resist). (Also I heard Joann's is going out of business, and there's one about half an hour from here, and now I want to go and peruse supplies and sales.)

But my toddler has been sick since yesterday, and today was super busy to boot (running errands, final ultrasound, T-21 days till Three arrives), and so it was all I could do to keep kids fed and happy and alive till bed time.

And then once they were in bed it was all cleaning...

Let Mommy Crochet 2025 is my new slogan (it used to be Let Mommy Eat 2024 lol).

[peaceful_sands]

For yesterday and the day before I made a bit of progress on the rug making.