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

[innitmarvellous]

This is my first time posting in this community and I don't know if it's fine to just hop onto these posts, so apologies in advance. ^^'



Anyway, this is my latest crochet stuff. I'm almost done with one scarf in a rather ugly colour scheme (unfortunately I noticed how bad it looks when it was way too late, so I didn't want to frog it haha), and then I'm going to work on another scarf. Well, I'll try. I don't really like the pattern, but my mother said it would be a waste to frog it...so I'm going to try it for a bit longer.

[badly_knitted]

Totally fine, most people do exactly that, although members are also free to make their own posts to the community. Welcome, we're very happy to have you here!

As long as a scarf is warm and comfy, appearance and colour scheme don't matter so much. You made it, so be proud of its ugliness! *grins* We've all made things that on reflection might not have been the best idea.

Good luck with the currant scarf. Even if the pattern doesn't appeal, it's good practice, and who says you have to stick with the pattern? Change it to something you like better, get it close to the length you want, then do the other end to match in the pattern you're not keen on. Voila, a unique scarf with patterned ends.

[innitmarvellous]

Yeah, but unfortunately I tend to feel terrible about the waste of yarn, so it kind of annoys me either way, haha.

Thanks! I'm not sure I could actually do that (never really switched the pattern in the middle of a project), but it would be an interesting idea!

[badly_knitted]

I hate wasting crafting supplies too, using some for one thing then realising I could have made much better use of it on something else. It's frustrating.

Now might be a good opportunity to learn. You never know what you can do until you try.