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

[viskozni_varhanik]

I've been traveling a bit this weekend, so I got through a fair bit of crossstitch in the train - still got a lot to do, and it's my main focus during free time at the moment and will have to stay that way, since I'm a bit nervous about possible shipping time, but. getting there. once I finish this, I'm excited to swap into writing for a bit,but gotta finish this first.

tried to learn crochet basics today, as on Wednesday id finally have my first opportunity to join in a crochet club, but I'm struggling with anything more than a chain, so I might just give up on that for now. wouldn't crochet much in this state, sigh. at least it looks like the books in learning from are decent.

tomorrow I'll go pick up the package with Mysterious Plastic Canvas! goodness I hope it turns out suitable for cross stitch.

[badly_knitted]

Well done with the cross stitch progress, and I hope the Mysterious Plastic Canvas turns out to be suitable.

Have you tried watching crochet tutorials on youtube? Seeing someone actually demonstrating the stitches can sometimes make it more understandable than just looking at diagrams in a book, no matter how good the book is. Also, people at a crochet club would probably be happy to help you learn.

[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]

Good luck! You can do it!

[nagi_schwarz]

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

[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.

[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!