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

[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!