Check-In Post - April 17th 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!

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[badly_knitted]

Very busy and mildly eventful day. I did a bit more digging on the patch destined to become a flower bed, widening it in a couple of places. Unearthed a huge beetle larva, probably a cockchafer. I know they eat tree roots, but I put it back in the ground anyway, under a shrub. Maybe there are others down there, but I like beetles.


My friend cut the lawn for me, I can't get the lawnmower out of the shed. I untangled the cable for him, and as I pulled on one bit, the piece that plugs into the mower flew up and hit me right on the nose, which set us both off laughing. Anyway, the lawn got mown, I swept the path, because there were grass clippings all over it, so that's nice and tidy now, then I went back to the patio bit and continued clearing the mound of soil and roots at one side. Cleared another square foot, and filled a bucket with soil. I'm getting there slowly. It would go faster if there weren't so many thick ivy roots in it, some of them are more than an inch in diameter, so I have to use my loppers on them.


No crafting, unsurprisingly, but I was given 8 more sets of cutting dies for my Cuttlebug as an Easter gift, very excited to trey them out when I have time.

[wiseheart]

I finally brought up the willpower to do some crafty preparations. I cut out the lining for 12 pincushions and also outlined and pinned together the fabric for their outer covers. The idea is to use all those identical hand lotion plastic pots that I didn't have the heart to throw out and turn them into little sewing kits. A couple of weeks ago I had bought some cheap sewing needles and sewing pins at Tedi, and I've got pretty (albeit somewhat useless) little safety needles and a bunch of buttons I can't really use for anything to fill the kits. I'll decorate the pots with bee stickers and label them as "The Little Sewing Bee". That's the plan. We'll see how they turn out. The first step is to make the pin cushions, and I'll be occupied with that for quite some time. But I do have time until December, when the next Christmas fair rolls in.

Done!

[ysabetwordsmith]

Today I spread compost on the telephone garden flowerbed and made a protective cover for it using a roll of plastic mesh fence and some garden pins. Hopefully this will discourage the squirrels from digging it up.

[nagi_schwarz]

Got the new threads joined in on the tatting and that's about it. If I have the willpower after a mildly disastrous day (unsupervised toddler, now-empty pot of diaper cream), I will try to complete the next phase of the popup cube boxes I plan on making for mother's day gifts. Who knows.

[viskozni_varhanik]

Despite the harsh temperature jump in the last two days, I managed to finish the metallic thread last if the keychain. Same then decided the contrast is too low, so now I'm about a third into backstitching the entire thing. I'm very happy about that decision, though. Think it'll turn out neat :)

Haven't been too productive apart from that. Had a minor scare with my practice el. pipe organ, but it seems avoiding extension cords fixes it. Still, the anxiety tired me out, sigh.

[malurette]

The torso is finished and I resumed working on that sleeve!