Check-In Post - May 18th 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: We all probably have multiple WiPs, but which of yours has been hanging around longest, waiting to be finished?


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]

Argh, SO MUCH STITCHING! Got quite a bit done, think I'm happy, but it's still... there's so much to do, haven't finished the bottom half yet but getting close.

[darkcedars]

Wooooo that's amazing!

[badly_knitted]

Thanks! But can I stitch the rest in 2.5 weeks?

[fadingfootsteps]

You gotta keep the determination in your heart

I won't swear you'll totally get it done in time, but having 90% done at the deadline is very different from having 75% done!

[badly_knitted]

That is true. At least if I can get the foreground and middle ground done my friend will be able to recognise what it is, even if the background isn't finished.

[wiseheart]

Oh, you poor lamb! But you will do it as always, I'm quite sure about that.

[badly_knitted]

I'm not! 2.5 weeks to stitch more than I have on the project in at least 3.5 weeks? When am I going to sleep?

[nagi_schwarz]

Way to go for all the stitching though!

[badly_knitted]

Thank you. I'm struggling on.

[darkcedars]

Working on the mantle scarf a little. It's a striping yarn and out of the grays into the light blues, which is more enjoyable.

As far as WIPs, a few years ago I did a big sweep and don't have any long term projects anymore. Finished some, gave up on others.

I do want to use up all my trivet yarn this year though.

[badly_knitted]

Good progress on the mantle scarf!

Good luck on triveting!

[fadingfootsteps]

variegated yarn go brrrrrr.

Glad the blues are pleasing!

[wiseheart]

Enjoy your blues! :)

[nagi_schwarz]

Kudos to you for working on the mantle scarf! For sure when I have color-changing yarn I prefer some colors over others and am more excited to get to the colors I like for sure...

[fadingfootsteps]

I did a few of the togekiss pieces and sewed most of what I had onto the body, which is 3 head spikes 2 feet and 3 tail feathers. Only thing made and not sewn on is a piece of wing that needs a second part, and to make in general is another of the same wing part and the second piece(s) to both.

It probably wasn't a fantastic thought to do sewing in the session (I am not great at it) but then the project would've just stalled; Doing the different tasks in phases and keeping the phases roughly equal (like 50% done with piece making and 30% done on sewing etc) makes it way less overwhelming and keeps the bits and bobs I need to track the locations of to a minimum, because now they're just On The Project :)

[badly_knitted]

Well done with all that sewing! I'm sure your togekiss will be cute!

[darkcedars]

Good for you on keeping going (and keeping it organized).

[nagi_schwarz]

So much sewing. Your pokemon will be super cute when it's done though!

[wiseheart]

Lots of chores today, so no crafting, not even prep work, got done. But there's always tomorrow.

As for the WIP, I've got the sewing kits, plus two semi-identical quiet books still in the early phase, and a cookbook for the 70th birthday of a relative, so...

[badly_knitted]

Which WiP has ben waiting the longest I wonder...

[wiseheart]

Actually, all four are less than a year old, started at about the same time, with a difference of only a couple of months.

[badly_knitted]

You're so much better at finishing things than I am! I have a black lacy sweater, unfinished, that I started around 2008.

[darkcedars]

I'll be in chores only mode tomorrow probably.

[nagi_schwarz]

The cookbook sounds like an awesome project! Sorry for the busy day. But yes, there's always tomorrow!

Well ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

I got a lot done, but not all of it was the stuff I intended to do.

Frex, we drilled out the drain holes in the 2 giant pots bought yesterday. But then I realized that I didn't have much composted manure left. So I set that aside.

I did get the tall planter with the shelves set up. I trimmed grass at the west end of the new picnic table, set out the concrete pavers, fussed around trying to get them level-ish by shoving sticks underneath, then tied the planter to the picnic table so it'll stay put. I haven't put any pots on it yet, but I plan to use a lightweight potting soil for those.

Eh, it's progress.

Re: Well ...

[nagi_schwarz]

That sounds like a lot of progress in the garden!

Re: Well ...

[badly_knitted]

Certainly a lot done even if it wasn't all what you'd planned on doing

[nagi_schwarz]

Last couple of days were mad busy (we're potty-training our toddler, which is...an adventure while we also have a newborn) (and also I was preparing to DM my first D&D game in literally years), and I have discovered that despite my best effort with my wrist, it still hurts. I am thinking I might have to take an extended break from crocheting (I didn't even last a week, so I'll try a week this time). I tried to start on a new tatted hanky project but for the life of me couldn't figure out how to start lol, so...I will have to try again when I'm not so sleep-deprived and have the mental bandwidth to figure it out (i.e. not supervising three kids at once). I did see some more cool origami letter things I want to try, so there's that.

As for my longest WIP...that's got to be the fancy spiral granny square afghan I started ages ago...I only did like two squares and then gave up, so maybe I'll just save those squares for something else and put the remainder of the yarn toward something else. Beyond that, my sweater scarf and circle shawl have been ongoing since before Christmas and we're over halfway through May, and so that's been...a while.

[badly_knitted]

Oof, that does not sound easy! Good luck!

Once you've got the tatted hanky edging started you'll probably be fine, it's all the thinkiness required to get started that's the problem.

Some projects are destined to never get finished. Having WiPs that you only started before Christmas isn't bad at all. I have a black lacy sweater I started somewhere around 2008 =/

[wiseheart]

Giving your wrist a proper rest sounds reasonable, especially as you are crazy busy with mundane tasks. Good luck with the origami letter things!