Check-In Post - May 7th 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!

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[badly_knitted]

Had about an hour in the front garden today, cutting back fuchsia and that stupid grass so I can get to the path at the other side of the house. Because of the gooseberry bushes and my buddleia globosa, I can't easily get to the forsythia I want to get rid of between my garden and my new neighbour's. The best route is to go right around the house and down the other side, so that's what I'm attempting, although I'll need to cut the hedge a bit on my way.


The rest of the afternoon weas spent on cross stitch, and it's slow progress. This part of the design is all greens, four different shades. What I didn't mention yesterday is that I'm stitching on 20 hpi aida with one strand of thread, so it's a lot of careful, delicate work.


Caterpillar count for the day: 55.

[fadingfootsteps]

Seam ripper has NOT manifested, and still need to run tot he store. Work hours impending, so unlikely to get done soon either

Dumb idea #1 out of 2 is underway. I'm Making another scale pattern dice bag, but this time out of weight #10 thread. Specific reason it's dumb; the tedium involved. There's gonna be so many stitches and rows of scales to achieve a width and height worth a damn.

[althea_valara]

One row on the cardi, and about 20 minutes on Alphi so far. It's only 3pm here so I might work on Alphi some more today.

[darkcedars]

It's been dark all day but only now started to rain.

I am slowly working on the mantle runner scarf thing for my brother. It's a good monotonous project.

[viskozni_varhanik]

it's been a day for sure. we've been to the vet today (because one of our cats started marking things), and as a last act of retaliation for it the kitty cat decided to mark the envelope I had prepared for the bad canvas to return it. I think the combined smell of valerian (calming collar for him, apparently) and cat piss will be burning through my nose for several days. hit the last bits of my good plastic canvas as well, the lil bastard (though I say that with the utmost affection). we came to the conclusion he's gotten angry at me for getting a job and not being at home all the time. since I can't change that, all sensitive craft has been moved into a cat-free room for the time being, hah.

found out nobody here carries a plastic Aida higher than 14, so I ordered some from an embroidery specialty shop. ... couldn't help myself and picked up a kit while I was at it. it has lot of back stitch and I'm not used to working with actual coded colors (it's an Anchor kit), so it'll be a fun challenge for sure! once I finish all my current projects. I will be so strong and not start it sooner. definitely. I will be SO strong.

did some more stitching on the midtone of my current sprite. getting closer to moving onto the darks! also properly put away carabiners and other components, which was quick and simple, but it's satisfying to look at an organizer that is actually organized.

[nagi_schwarz]

I managed to get some letter scrapbooking/organizing done today, so that felt pretty good! Also I reorganized some yarn and some UFOs and worked on new puzzle purse letters for the letter club I’m in. While also reorganizing stuff to be more toddler-friendly I found the needle punch kit I’d bought ages ago, and I really want to try it out!

[malurette]

I've done the ribbed part and a few centimeters on my bérêt and then I had to stop, I'll be out of coloured wool too soon--I had this multicoloured yarn wih built-in stripes in blue, purple, lilac, grey and off-white and I've completed it with some bright white yarn, I only have left tiny bits of too bright blue and dark purple I won't use, one lilac stripe and three grey & white stripes but I was hoping to save maybe two grey stripes for the ends of a scarf and too much bright-white won't do in that bérêt so I'll have to buy off-white yarn but today is a bank holiday so the shop's probably closed and I can't...
Luckily I still have a scarf project I can keep on knitting until tomorrow.