Check-In Post - May 5th 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

[nagi_schwarz]

Kudos to you for cross stitch progress. Hope the plastic canvas works out. And yay for crochet club! You can do it!

[nagi_schwarz]

I felt like all I did today was laundry (for reals though I did like six loads since we had a busy weekend and I fell behind), but I managed to finish a row on the crochet six-point star blanket. Hopefully I’ll get more done tomorrow during crafty group. I did spend a while looking longingly at a pattern for a tatted skull. It actually looked quite simple to make, but I have other projects that need to come first…

[fadingfootsteps]

The seam ripper did NOT manifest. No progress in any direction on that.

I have, however made a crane while doing dice games tonight. I am winning too.

[tielan]

Finished two quilt tops, matching. Need to put the photos up.

[viskozni_varhanik]

Thank you!

I vastly prefer diagrams and photos to videos, but I'll probably end up looking at some. Bit scared of both the terminology not being in Czech and the two English terminologies rabbit hole, but that's a bridge id have to cross eventually anyways, so I just gotta scrounge up some courage to do that.

[badly_knitted]

Thanks!

It could also be that I'm spending less time searching.

I've hit a snag with my next cross stitch project, two of the DMC threads listed don't exist and I don't know how I'm going to figure out which threads they should be. Obviously there's a mistake in the key, but I'm panicking over it now.

[badly_knitted]

With three little ones, I expect the laundry piles up quickly.

Yay for progress on the blanket. The tatted skull sounds awesome, a future project perhaps.

[badly_knitted]

Woohoo! Well done!

[badly_knitted]

That sucks, but you will figure something out.

Well done with both the crane and the dice game!

[badly_knitted]

Good luck! You can do it!

[malurette]

I finished my jumper, yay!! ...just in time not to need it anymore, spreingtime's here, sweather weather is over. But it's so pretty~ and I think I have *just* enough leftover wool for a complimentary bérêt? but not for a scarf.

[badly_knitted]

Yay, congratulations! Will we get to see a picture?

I hope you manage to make the beret.

I stopped working on my Aran jacket a while back because it's too warm now to wear it, and knitting makes me hot. It will have to wait now until autumn.

[nagi_schwarz]

Oh no! I would panic over that too for reals

[badly_knitted]

It's okay, problem solved, and the threads are on order. Looks like there have been new colours invented since I last bought any. I need a new DMC thread list.

[wiseheart]

It's a quick and easy job, even though a bit boring. It would help if I could do it in front of the telly, but there's either not enough natural light in the living room, or there's so much that we have to close the blinds, which leads to the same results.

[wiseheart]

Yes, but fortunately an easy one.

[wiseheart]

Thank you. It's my stupid fault to make so many of one thing, but the truth is, I can reuse various things this way that would otherwise end up in the rubbish bin, so I'm willing to make sacrifices for the sake of Mother Earth. *g*

[wiseheart]

I think so, yes. I've reached half way with the task, meaning that only 36 more buttons are to go.

[wiseheart]

Your willpower is admirable. I'd have quit after the first further reading showed up.

[wiseheart]

Oh, this is super cute!

[wiseheart]

I'm amazed that you can do cross-stitch on the train - I wouldn't have any working fingers if I tried!

Learning to crochet used to be one of my long-term goals, too, but I don't think it will happen any time, soon. Should have done so while my Grandma was still alive - she was a real wiz with it.

[wiseheart]

Wow, a tatted skull! Sounds ominous!

[viskozni_varhanik]

Thankfully it wasn't a ricochety train. The advantages of a long train trip here is that most of the trains the few big long lines we fit into the country are decent trains nowadays. Not the most modern, but enough to ride smoothly and have AC working (at least most of the time :)).

I've managed to pick up cross stitch properly shortly before my great aunt died - she was the fiber arts wiz in our family. Mom got taught crochet by her, but it's mostly muscle memory for her now - not enough for her to properly teach me, so it's on me to figure out the thing mostly on my own. But hey, it's still learning it even if it's a not the best way to learn it that could have been!

[badly_knitted]

Getting just the right amount of light can be difficult.

[nagi_schwarz]

It’s actually really pretty, like a sugar skull.