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?


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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.

[althea_valara]

Do you change crafts with the season or stick to the same crafts year round?

pretty much the same! I might choose to work on smaller projects in the summer months, but then again, I might not (I spent last summer under a blanket I was crocheting).

Yesterday was Stitch Club. I brought the mosaic cardi, and did two rows. I could have done more while there, but eh, was enjoying the conversation instead.

But really, not doing a lot of crafting right now. Unfortunately my depression has flared up and I'm not finding much joy in things. (I'm under the care of a psych and a therapist, so I'll get through this. Just, might not be fun for a while, sigh.)

[viskozni_varhanik]

I've finished my keychain! ...Even if, since I ended up getting a different keychain in the meantime, it ended up serving as a giant zipper pull tab on my new backpack.

Put away the odds and bits of felt left over from this project into a scraps jar. Planning to eventually stuff some tiny plushies with them. I have no specific plans for a plushie now, but I'm 100% i will get to some eventually, given i adore plushies and making a tiny animal would probably make me explode with happiness.

Will probably put down the crafts for a few days at least and let my hands rest. The birds outside are chattering up a storm in this weather, so I might try to go birdwatching to get to know my neighbors just a little bit better, i think.

[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.

[darkcedars]

Sounds like you had a good time at stitch club. Hang in there.

[badly_knitted]

Under a blanket in summer would kill me. Unless it was like last summer, when half the time ALL the blankets were needed.

Glad you enjoyed stitch club and the conversation.

Sending virtual hugs. Hope you can quickly get back to finding the joy in things.

[darkcedars]

It's a good time to get to know birds, they have a lot to say right now.

[badly_knitted]

It looks awesome and will make a good zipper pull, and be there if you need a backup keychain. Well done!

Good luck with your plushie-making aspirations! Tiny plushies are adorable.

I heartily approve of birdwatching! I've done it all my life =D

[darkcedars]

Made another dishcloth today after doing my chores. Hopefully tomorrow I will get back to the doily.

I'm watching the last episode of the main Babylon 5 series right now. A couple more movies and Crusade to go.

[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*

[badly_knitted]

Yay for dishcloth production, and good luck with the doily.

Argh! You've beaten me! I haven't had time to watch DVDs recently, I've been outside so much, so I haven't reached the end of season 3 yet. Must get back to that, I need to write some more B5 drabbles as I'm running out of drabbles to post to my collection. Sleeping in Light always gets me, such a great finale. Enjoy the movies and Crusade.

[darkcedars]

Husband's surgery took me through a ton of it, though I missed chunks. He wanted the TV on solid those first couple days.

I had forgotten how at the end, they put up a thing as if it was a documentary, really laughed.

[wiseheart]

I had an... eventful day, to put it mildly. Still, I forced myself to cut out the outer layers of the little pincushions. So I'm fairly content with my achievements.

[wiseheart]

B5 is a great series! I'm a die-hard Trekkie, myself, but I still have it on videotape. Yes, I'm actually that old - I own a great deal of stuff on videotape. The official ones, mind you, not private recordings.

[wiseheart]

Nice keychain. Good luck with the plushies, they are always fun.

[badly_knitted]

Can't say I blame him, the TV would have been a welcome distraction.

JMS is that kind of talent =D

[badly_knitted]

Well done! I hope tomorrow will be a better day for you.

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

Today we hit Rural King for gardening supplies. Among the things I picked up was a bag of pea gravel, variously for garden use and for terrarium crafts as a drainage layer or building material. I'm wondering if I could build a little stone bridge or wishing well with the hot glue gun.

Re: Thoughts

[badly_knitted]

That sounds like a really cute idea. You'd have to pick you pebbles carefully, but it could work.

Re: Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

Pea gravel is small, roundish stones of different sizes and colors, roughly pea to marble size. That makes a tricky building material but it does resemble round fieldstones or river cobbles.

There's a nursery that sells various rocks, where I've already bought several that are roughly bowling ball size. I also got one hand-sized chip. But there are shards all over the ground. I'm tempted to ask if they could quote me a price for a bucket or so of miscellaneous shards.

[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.

[nagi_schwarz]

Understandably not a lot of crafting now. Sending positive vibes your way. Glad you could go to stitch club and have a good time enjoying conversation.

[nagi_schwarz]

The keychain is lovely! Way to go! Definitely let your hands rest. And kudos to you for getting to know your neighbors! I don't know mine nearly as well as I should...

[nagi_schwarz]

Oooh Babylon 5! I've always heard good things. Kudos to you for making another dishcloth!

[nagi_schwarz]

Sorry for the eventful day. Kudos to you for making progress on the pincushions!