Check-In Post - March 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: Do you remember the first thing you made in school?


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

[peaceful_sands]

We had to buy our cooking aprons and science overalls but we were expected to chain stitch our surnames very visibly on both (maybe so the teacher could shout at us quickly if we were about to do something too dangerous?!

I spoke to my mum about the clay pot for my uncle and she said I made that at home and it was a plant pot - we even got a plant to go in it! It’s funny because you got me thinking about school projects and I was pondering what the children I used to teach would remember out of the projects we did - my mum listed off a load of things that I did with my niece and nephew when they were younger and it surprised me just how many different things we’d done over the years (most of them as Christmas presents for other people in the family).

[badly_knitted]

Wow, you had overalls for science? We just wore our uniforms, even playing around with chemicals. One experiment spat in my friend's eye. We didn't even have protective goggles! Admittedly, this was 50 years ago, but safety standards in school were abysmal.


I hope your plant pot proved successful for your plant!

So cool that you did so much crafting with your niece and nephew. I'm sure they must have had fun.