Check-In Post - April 14th 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

[viskozni_varhanik]

I've managed to nick a finger with a knife tip yesterday, which should theoretically mean should maybe lay off the stitching for a while, so I don't keep going over it with thread. Because I'm stubborn, practically it means I want to stitch even more, and just figured out a funny way how to hold my work. Anyways, I managed to finish stitching two rows of the shorter edge border and one of the longer. Forecast says it's gonna rain all day tomorrow, so I'll take the lil keychain project with me instead of a book to work tomorrow (out of abundance of caution, considering my current read is a softcover), so I might make some more progress during lunch break. Crafting and other free time is a bit limited rn, as I'm a musician helping out with Easter services, so I'll take any time I can use, hah.

[badly_knitted]

So annoying when something like that happens, but kudos for finding a way to continue crafting anyway. Hope you manage to make progress during lunch. I used to knit on my lunch breaks, crafting during lunch at work is a time-honoured tradition!

Good luck with the Easter services. What instrument(s) do you play?

[viskozni_varhanik]

Thank you! I play the pipe organ! I love the instrument to bits, but most accompaniments written for it are 4-5 voices at once, so it requires some practice time to get them all straight.

[badly_knitted]

Wow! I mean, pipe organs are magnificent, but they look so complicated to play. I'm impressed!

[nagi_schwarz]

Hope you can get some extra crafting time in. Ouch on the nicked finger! (Will that affect playing music at all?) Good luck with the stitching!

[viskozni_varhanik]

thankfully it won't, since I was lucky enough to nick it a little from the side (that I tend to rest my work on), but I play with the fingertip / front finger pad area. :) and thank you!