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?


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[viskozni_varhanik]

Had a bit of a lull in cross-stitching as i focused on finishing a bigger drawing first, but I am now back at the sprite thingies.

Finished the first one of the trio, actually!! Cutting it out was nerve-wracking, but it's the spikiest one i'll do so I've got the worst behind me. All the finish touches (perhaps apart from a knot above the beads so they don't move up as well, but whatever) turned out to work exactly how I wanted them to, so i'm ridiculously happy about the whole thing. Got an entire month to finish the other two so I'm excited that I might actually get to submit them as possible prizes.

Paid another visit to the specialty store, only to find out they only had a single skein of non-DMC white (look, i don't need precise colors and why should I pay premium when there's a local company making perfectly good floss). So I landed one white and several of something they call 'marshmallow'. Thankfully, one of the sprites is going to be Flareon, so I'm going to use the slightly warmer white on it to keep the pure white for Vaporeon with its blues. They also had 0 plastic canvases of any higher count. Put an order in for some they have up on their website, but it honestly looks more like a grid for something with much thicker fiber. We'll see if it works when it arrives, and if not, i'll have to dig up the order I made for my current plastic canvas and try the online-only shop i got that from and eat the shipping fee.

[badly_knitted]

Your drawing is amazing! I'm so impressed!

Also, your sprite is adorable!

Glad you managed to get a bit of white and off-white floss for the other sprites. Sucks that you're having trouble getting suitable plastic canvas. I hope what you've ordered with prove suitable so you don't have to pay shipping fees.

[peaceful_sands]

Some major achievements there!

[nagi_schwarz]

The drawing is amazing! Don't know the fandom but I love it!

Also way to go on the sprite thingies! Fingers crossed you can get the canvas you need.