Check-In Post - May 1st 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]

I set aside the unfinished pincushions because, frankly, I was bored by them to the death, and decided to make these penguin pencil holders instead. Aren't they adorable? I still might have to do something about the upper rand, perhaps trimming it a bit, but otherwise I'm very proud of the outcome. The sticking-out wings are a new addition to the design; I believe, though, they'd have looked even cuter with a little heart in the place of their beaks, like here. Ah, well, there's always a next time; we eat lots of canned veggies, after all.

Of course, I intend to make some Santa-shaped pencil holders, too...

[darkcedars]

Those are cute, will be a good project to go back and forth with.

[badly_knitted]

They are so adorable! Well done!

[peaceful_sands]

Good choice to put aside something that is boring you - you should enjoy what you are doing. There's enough in the rest of life to fill the boredom slot. The penguin holders are lovely.

[nagi_schwarz]

Those penguin pencil holders are ADORABLE! I support you switching to this project. The pincushions aren't due for a long time yet...