Check-In Post - April 16th 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

[wiseheart]

Sorry for the absence. I really planned to drop by and at least fire the others on, but the last couple of days were really hectic and exhausting. Today I got as far as laying out the fabric for the third attempt on my pincushions - only to put everything away a few hours later because I just couldn't bring up the energy to cut out the pieces.

But I managed a little bit of writing in the afternoon, so not everything is lost.

[badly_knitted]

No apologies necessary, check in whenever you feel like it, there's no pressure.

Yay for writing! And at least you THOUGHT about crafting, even if it ended up not happening.

[wiseheart]

Fact is, I actually like checking in each day and see what the others are doing, even if I haven't done anything. But the last two days were truly horrid.

[badly_knitted]

You can only do what you can do. You still don't need to apologise, you can always catch up with what people have been doing by checking the previous post or two if you're too busy, too tired, or both. It's always fun
to see what everyone's doing, but sometimes there are days when even that is more of an effort than can be managed.

[darkcedars]

You had a big rush with the baskets. Sorry it's hectic there too!

[nagi_schwarz]

Yay for writing! Sorry such a tiring day.

[badly_knitted]

It rained last night, and today was very blustery, so my plan was to stay in and craft, but... Well, the sun was shining, I like windy weather if it's not too cold, and the rain overnight had moistened the soil, so I took my garden fork and dug the worst of the weeds and grass clumps from a strip that I dug shrub roots out of last year when I was clearing the path. I want to turn that strip into a flower bed since the shrubs on the banking make it difficult to grow anything nice on there. I didn't get all the weeds out, just the biggest ones, working around the violets and forget-me-nots that are flowering. Tomorrow the lawn might get cut, and I don't want the flowers getting accidentally mown.

Also cut back some more holly and ivy, cleared up the leaves that had blown down, then came indoors and sewed up a pair of arm warmers just so I can say I did some crafting.

[wiseheart]

Wow, that's a lot of hard work you've done! And lessening the unfinished pile of arm warmers is a good thing, too; takes some pressure off you.

[badly_knitted]

I dread to think how many pairs are waiting to be sewn up. I've decided I have one pair to sew up, the one I've pinned ready for sewing. When that pair is done, I'll pin another and tell myself I have one pair to sew up. One pair is manageable, but if I knew how many there really are, I'd lose the will to live, lol!

[wiseheart]

I think refraining from making new ones for a while might help. *g*

[badly_knitted]

I suspect it would, but Doctor Who is on Saturday, and I have a part-knitted pair, so... Got to give my hands something to do.

[darkcedars]

Much hard work!

[badly_knitted]

It was a nice day though, too nice to be indoors.

[nagi_schwarz]

So much garden work! Go you! And yay for getting the arm warmers sewn up.

[badly_knitted]

Thank you! It's only one pair, but that's something.

[darkcedars]

Husband went back to work today. I got the groceries and worked on laundry etc. did about half of a dishcloth. Hopefully more back to normal in a couple.days.

[badly_knitted]

Yay for husband's recovery!

Sounds like you had a busy day though.

[nagi_schwarz]

Fingers crossed for a return to normalcy soon. Kudos to you for progress on the dishcloth.

[wiseheart]

Here is to normal!

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

Today I'm planting because the weather is finally clement.

Also, we're getting the outdoor spigot fixed so we'll have an outdoor water source again! :D 3q3q3q!!! I am so excited by that. Yes, I'll still have to drag the hose around to where it will reach, but once I've done that I'll have has much water as I want coming out it, which means I can deeply water places and not have to do it every day. Progress!

I'm still mulling over what other outdoor crafting I need to do this season. We're trying to get a landscaper out here to install a greenhouse, but that hasn't come together yet.

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[badly_knitted]

Yay for planting weather! Hope the spigot gets fixed soon to make for easier watering.

Good luck with getting your greenhouse!

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[ysabetwordsmith]

Well, I managed to finish one box of plants today, so that's progress.

Current word is that the greenhouse will arrive later this month.

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[badly_knitted]

That's great news!

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[nagi_schwarz]

Good luck with planting! And yay for the spigot getting repaired.

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[ysabetwordsmith]

Thanks. I am excited and hopeful. :D

[nagi_schwarz]

Finished another bobbin on the tarting after playing a bit of thread chicken and resorting to unorthodox techniques to get to a good starting point, and got the bobbin refilled. Hollowed out a bit more of the book. Hoping to tat a bit more tonight after the kiddos are in bed. Now that my mother-in-law has departed the real test begins, but also I can work on Mother’s Day gifts without the surprise getting spoiled.

[badly_knitted]

Yay for tatting progress and getting to a good spot for thread joining. Hope you can get a bit more done tonight.

Good luck with juggling the kids.

It's a lot easier to make Mother's Day gifts when the people they're for aren't lurking.

[wiseheart]

Wishing you strength for the real test.

[malurette]

White wool has been bought and knitting bottom ribs has resumed and should get finished today. Switching between said ribs on a circular needle and a scarf's stocking stitch on regular needles had we stop pause and wonder for a few seconds what I was doing with my hands so I'll focus on the jumper and put the scarf back on hold.

[badly_knitted]

Your hands got confused!

Good luck on finishing the sweater so you can get back to your scarf. Sounds like it is going well!