Check-In Post - April 18th 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]

I went outside to continue clearing my patio area, got in about 90 minutes of work before it started spitting rain at me, so I came in. I did get done the main thing I'd planned to do, uprooting a massive bramble that climbed up through the holly tree, arched across to the philadelphus and dangled down the other side. I didn't measure it, but it was at least 15 foot. It's all cut up now and in the bin.


After I came in, I decided to dig out some cross stitch, the last of the rose designs I was stitching last year. I'd only stitched the border, so I thought I'd start on the rose itself, and the needles and needle threader weren't in the magazine where they were supposed to be. I had to find another needle, so I only got a tiny bit of stitching done.

[darkcedars]

The bramble sounds like a real struggle.

I hope the needle not being in the magazine does not mean it is lurking now in your chair or somewhere else inconvenient.

[badly_knitted]

Dragging it down pulled a lot of leaves with it, but it came out easier than the previous one, half of which is still stuck up there out of reach.

No fear of that since wherever it is, it's attached to a piece of fabric. It's just that it SHOULD be in the magazine, I haven't done any cross stitch since last year, so I don't get why it isn't where it should be. I haven't moved my stack of magazines in months. It's not in the bag with the threads, or in the box I keep some stitching supplies in, so what the heck did I do with it? *is baffled*

[nagi_schwarz]

Sorry you only got a bit of stitching done. That sounds like a really pretty project though! And kudos to you for getting some gardening in before the weather turned.

[badly_knitted]

There are 6 designs in the set and I stitched the other 5 last year, along with quite a few other pieces to use for cards. Most of them I never got around to posting photos of, so I'll try to do better with that this year.