Check-In Post - April 13th 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 change crafts with the season or stick to the same crafts year round?


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]

Later than ever, I know, I apologise. Busy day, so I zoned out doing online jigsaws.


I had laundry to do, a huge pile of dishes to wash, and it was supposed to rain but it didn't, so I was back outside for a couple of hours. Finally got the rest of the big piece of polythene out of the soil, plus umpteen roots, bit of roofing felt, more rusty metal and lumps of concrete. I shifted a rooted bit of honeysuckle to the bit I'd already cleared, where I was contemplating planting honeysuckle, so I guess that answers that question. If it survives, it might as well stay.


My hands hurt too much after all that for crafting though.

[wiseheart]

Ugh, that sounds really brutal. It would have killed me halfway. You are a real trooper!

[badly_knitted]

I'm about half dead, and falling asleep, so I think I'll troop off to bed.

[yarnandglue]

Online jigsaws are a great way to let the brain relax. You deserve some mellow time!

[badly_knitted]

I am doing A LOT of online jigsaws at present. They're easier on my hands than crafting after a hard afternoon in the garden.

[nagi_schwarz]

Have rounded corner four and am onto side four — on the home stretch of the hanky! Also started carving out the inside of my hollow book. It’s weirdly addictive? Watching the space grow bigger and bigger as I carve down. Think I’ll need to glue the outside one more time, then clean up the inside before I glue it. Gonna take a long while to hollow out the inside though. But I can just take it a bit at a time. Also I finished formatting another book for binding, so that’s two books in the print queue for binding. Unfortunately baby girl has caught her first cold, so I expect crafting over the next while will be limited, if not nonexistent, till she gets better.

[badly_knitted]

Aw, poor baby girl! Colds are horrid for grownups, but babies have such tiny noses...

Well done with hankie progress and work on the hollow book that isn't hollow yet.

[wiseheart]

Sending healing vibes and a virtual teddy for baby girl.

[yarnandglue]

I don't have photos of anything but I had a very productive weekend!

I finally found some raspberry pink paint at the thrift store so I painted an old lampshade. I bought the lamp when my husband and I got our first apartment so...9 years ago? It was a boring beige and also had a coffee stain :) Now it's a pretty shade of pink and gives the room some nice mood lighting!

I also sewed the buttons of a shirt shut so I can wear it to work without flashing all my coworkers :P

And I went to an antique mall and found a wishlist Barbie for a decent price!

Altogether very exciting :)

[wiseheart]

That was very productive indeed. Go you!

[yarnandglue]

Thank you!

[badly_knitted]

Yay for your bargain lamp and affordable Barbie!

The lamp sounds like it's very pretty now.

Excellent work on the shirt.

[yarnandglue]

Thank you!