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

[marinarusalka]

I finished chart #4 on my blanket, and am now 5 rows into chart #5. In a fit of optimism, I also went and filled out the entry form for the county fair, so now I have extra incentive to finish on time. :-)

In addition to knitting, I also did some baking this weekend. I wanted to make something flourless for Passover, and I also had some oranges that a friend gave me from her backyard tree, so I made this recipe. It came out really nice, denser than a regular cake would be but super moist and soft, and with a ton of orange flavor. I did a simple glaze on top, flavored with some orange blossom water, and am very happy with the result.

[badly_knitted]

Excellent progress! Good luck with getting the blanket finished in time for the fair!

Oh my, that orange cake sounds heavenly!

[marinarusalka]

I definitely recommend that cake recipe! It was super easy to make -- my food processor is too small to hold all the ingredients, so I just blitzed everything in the blender, and it worked great.

[badly_knitted]

I'm no baker, I don't even own a food processor, but I might save the recipe anyway.

[viskozni_varhanik]

ooh, I don't know if I'll ever have the courage to enter anything I make into a fair, good luck!

also :0 somehow the idea of a flourless cake never occured to me, but that sounds delicious! will definitely have to take a better look at that recipe later.

[nagi_schwarz]

That cake sounds delicious! Way to go! And kudos to you for signing up for the fair! You can do it!