Check-In Post - May 23rd 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

Re: Done!

[badly_knitted]

That is a lot of garden progress.

I wonder if mosquito dunks are available in the UK... I've been bitten twice already this year.

Re: Done!

[ysabetwordsmith]

Amazon UK carries them. My package says that each one lasts about a month.

For defense against adults, various types of insect repellent are available. At night, mosquito netting around the bed is highly effective.

Re: Done!

[badly_knitted]

Not doing netting, not practical for me, but I'll look into the things to kill the larvae. I hate Amazon, but if that's the only place...

Re: Done!

[ysabetwordsmith]

Check your local home and garden stores first. We got ours at a farm store. Places that serve pools, garden ponds, or birdfeeding / birdbaths may also carry mosquito dunks. In places with a serious problem, sometimes health agencies hand them out free. Online, search "your town or locale name" + "mosquito dunks." The same categories of stores will probably carry them online as on foot.

Re: Done!

[badly_knitted]

Thanks for the advice, I'll do some searching around, see what I can come up with, now that I know such things exist.

Re: Done!

[ysabetwordsmith]

There are some other options too.

* Plenty of pesticides will kill mosquito larvae, but also kill or harm beneficial creatures. I don't want that but YMMV.

* Mosquitoes prefer still water for reproduction. So a fountain, skimmer, filter pump, etc. will discourage or eliminate them.

* I also found this fun project for a Mosquito Bucket of Doom. Even if you can't find dunks, you can set up a bucket trap and simply pour out the water every few days into your garden. I have buckets, and a bunch of extra dunks, so I may try this.

Re: Done!

[badly_knitted]

No pesticides, I've never rolled that way.

That's great! I've bookmarked the page. I can certainly try that, with or without the dunks.

Re: Done!

[ysabetwordsmith]

I'm happy I could help.

I just don't see mosquitoes as being useful creatures. :/

Re: Done!

[badly_knitted]

Neither do I. I'm always happy when I kill one.