Check-In Post - May 10th 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

[badly_knitted]

Got outside early and started cutting back the forsythia. Made good progress, but only stayed out for an hour or so. Then it was back to the cross stitch, for a couple of hours. Also stitched a bit before breakfast. I've completed maybe a tenth of the design? Perhaps not quite that much.


A mere 9 caterpillars! Should have been one more, but one got catapulted off its leaf.

[wiseheart]

I'm back! After a few craft-less days I finally decided not to wait for inspiration to hit as it didn't seem likely in the foreseeable future. So I took out my felts and cut out the basic decoration items for all 12 sewing kits. Oh, there will be additional appliqués, I'm sure about that, but the basics are now done. And I even know which part I'll start the work with. I consider that a victory.

[darkcedars]

Finished packaging the doilies - this is a piece of foam poster board cut to size, covered with plain scrap fabric, pin down the doily. I piled it with all the dishcloths, scrubbies, and the flower trivet and even wrote the note for cousin #1.

Tomorrow my parents and brother are coming over fora birthday dinner. Mine was last weekend and mom's is tomorrow. We just do one dinner whichever day is convenient.

[glinda]

Mostly today I've been slowly (there's like 120 stitches) casting on a cowl and setting up the pattern repeat.

However, my main reason for commenting is that I think I might have accidentally become a shawl person. I like knitting shawls but I never feel that I suit them, I never know how to wear them, I think they look great on other people but not on me. But I chucked one on today to protect my shoulders when I was out in the sunshine today - it was too warm for the blazer I normally wear it with and the bag I was taking always seems to lead to sunburn in that dress, no matter how often I reapply sunscreen - so far so normal. But, I have never in my life received so many compliments in one afternoon from people I don't know, on any knitted item I've made. Several different women stopped me - in shops, in a cafe, on the train - to admire my shawl and ask if I made it myself. All at times when I wasn't knitting myself. I'm baffled but delighted. Might become a shawl person if I can figure out how to wear them without a bag to hold it in place!

So my actual question for the group. Has anyone - particularly a stranger - changed your opinion/perspective on a item you've knitted, for the better, in a big or small way?

[nagi_schwarz]

Only managed one row of crocheting, but I managed to wash two batches of wool (and prevent curious kids from sticking their hands into buckets of hot water). All my paper is dry, so I can fold it and cut it. After another batch maybe I’ll have enough to make a little journal!

[fadingfootsteps]

Forgot to check in yesterday. Brought my bag to work yesterday but not today. Scales were slow but going yesterday.

Today? Shant. Zero will get done. 12 hour shift bad enough. 13 also bad. Conned i tell you, conned (i totally couldve said no to the +1 hour but we did actually need the stuff done sooner rather than later.)

Seam ripper still at large, wherabouts unknown

[malurette]

I've finished my bérêt! I completed the stripes with off-white, a darker grey and a bit of steel blue wool I had on hand; the colour scheme is not perfect but it's good enough. I should add a pompom on top... if I remember how to size the cardboard bit to make one.

[peaceful_sands]

Stayed up until silly o'clock last night to finish the cushion cover - photos later of both once I've stuffed this one. Once I have filled this one, I'll do one final check over looking for patches and then wrap it ready for the birthday and be relieved that it's done - I can get back to my cardigan then!