Check-In Post - April 26th 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 took the day off from gardening and did cross stitch instead. Finished most of the remaining leaves (there will be two more tiny ones above the final rose), and stitched the rosebud. Just the smaller of the open roses to stitch now, and those tiny leaves.


Also 10 arm warmer rows while watching Doctor Who and OMG, best episode of the season so far!

[wiseheart]

You're seriously working on a new pair of arm warmers? How many are waiting to be sewn together again? *g*

[badly_knitted]

No, not a new pair, the one pair I had started knitting ages ago and not finished. I have to finish knitting them sometime. Gives me something to do with my hands when I'm on the edge of my seat watching TV.

[nagi_schwarz]

Woohoo! Glad you got a lot of crafting done and also got to enjoy a good show and an especially good episode!

[badly_knitted]

Thanks, I was pleased with the cross stitch progress, and Ncuti Gatwa is amazing as the Doctor.

[wiseheart]

I've finished three more pincushions while watching the funeral ceremonies of Pope Francis. Seven done, five more to go.

[badly_knitted]

Excellent progress!

Sad about Pope Francis. I liked him.

[wiseheart]

Me, too. I wonder who will follow.

[badly_knitted]

I hope it will be someone as progressive and forward thinking.

[wiseheart]

Not if they choose the Hungarian archbishop…

[badly_knitted]

We'll just have to hope the Church doesn't make that particular choice.

[wiseheart]

They just might. They tend to choose someone very conservative after having "endured" a progressive one. It isn't that I don't like our cardinal, personally - I remember him as a young priest candidate; I happened to witness his consecration - but I seriously doubt that he'd be the right one, due to his conservative views. Then again, God knows best what's needed, right?

[badly_knitted]

God may know, but that doesn't mean the church will make the right choice. Sorry if that sounds sacrilegious, I'm not a Catholic myself, but even bishops and cardinals are still only human.

[nagi_schwarz]

Congrats on pincushion progress! Sad watching, though.

[wiseheart]

In a manner perhaps. On the other hand, he'd led a good life and left a wonderful legacy, so...

Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

I have done much planting! I finished off the potted plants from the most recent order. I still have bare-roots from that one and pots from other shopping, but progress!

Re: Yes ...

[badly_knitted]

Yay! A lot of time and effort, but it sounds like a lot has been achieved!

Re: Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

Today I'm down to 2 flats from 5 earlier, and I emptied the recently arrived box of potted plants, although I still have other stuff left. So I have accomplished much!

Re: Yes ...

[badly_knitted]

That's a lot of plants to put in.

Re: Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

Plus boxen and boxen of mail orders, and one on the way. But I have about 2 acres.

Re: Yes ...

[nagi_schwarz]

Kudos to you for lots of planting! That's awesome!

[fadingfootsteps]

this time it's actually nothing 👍.

Not a ton to say. I basically only work twelves so whenever I work unless I make it a bring the project to work day it simply does not happen.

Good to see other people progressing! Keep it up!

[nagi_schwarz]

Kudos to you for surviving those shifts, though, for reals.

[badly_knitted]

Oof, long shifts are long. It's a case of fitting crafting time in where you can.

[nagi_schwarz]

Today was a very busy and tiring day, but I managed a tiny bit of scrapbooking, which put a tiny dent in my massive backlog of old letters and cards I need to store (thankfully they're mostly sorted for easy organization into binders). Something is better than nothing!

[badly_knitted]

Every little bit helps, and with three small kids life is bound to often be busy and tiring. Hope you're getting enough sleep. *hugs*

[wiseheart]

Scrapbooking is fun! I wish I had your talent of organization; my various papers are always in disarray, despite my feeble attempts to sort them.

[malurette]

A train delay transformed a quarter-hour transfer into *three*-quarter-hour so on that last leg of travel my brain felt too "meh" both to read and to doze off so I whipped out the knitting project, untangled (once again) my white ball and knitted a couple centimeters of scarf (while admiring a guy in shiny golden shirt & shoes and clingy black trousers sitting a fit further away.)

[badly_knitted]

Ooh, eye candy! Always good to have something pretty to look at while crafting! Well done with scarf progress!