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

[peaceful_sands]

Just starting work on the cushion now. Spent a couple of hours earlier starting on the study package - Got through the first lesson but it then redirected and said there was some further reading that had to be done before going on - I ran out of steam before finishing all of the reading (there is still about another hour of reading and a 30 minute podcast to get through before I can start on lesson 2 - it's looking like there will be more to this than I expected - maybe the times were for the main lesson and not all the background reading that's also expected).

[badly_knitted]

Good luck with the cushion.

Yeesh, that's a lot of reading on top of the lesson, and a podcast too! They should have listed everything involved in each module, including estimated time, so students could allow themselves sufficient time for each one.

[peaceful_sands]

It was a bit of a rabbit hole because the further reading has further reading (that I'm not going to tackle at this stage) - I don't have access to the books in the further further reading, but it does give links to some of the journal articles. I get the feeling it could go on and on - I'll do the first round of further reading for now and just bookmark the list of the rest for if I want or need to pursue that line of enquiry later.

[badly_knitted]

That sounds like a sensible plan.

[wiseheart]

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

[nagi_schwarz]

Good luck with the cushion! That sounds a lot of studying for reals, but you’ve got this! You can do it!