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

[badly_knitted]

More stitching was done. I've finished the greys and started on the final stage, the yellows and peach, which means I still have almost a third of the design to complete, but it's progressing.

[wiseheart]

I actually started decorating the felt stripes that will go around the little sewing boxes. Three (more or less) done, nine more to go. The fact that I invested into a special felt glue (that wasn't exactly cheap) didn't help as much as I hoped it would. They make such weird flagons with even weirder caps for these wet glues, they are so frigging hard to use, and I often get more glue on my fingers than on the actual things I want to glue together. At least it is definitely a much faster process than sewing on every single piece - although I might make a few sewn ones as well. That's more fun.

[darkcedars]

Making just a little progress on the mantle scarf. Lots of chores, I've also started scraping paint for the great house painting summer!

[nagi_schwarz]

Wrist is still hurting (I am annoyed by this), and after a busy and exciting day (Boo was very excited for her sixth birthday, and Little Sister was quite excited to share in the new bounty of toys, mostly from the grandmas), I needed some crafting to decompress, so I did another thread on the punch needle kit. The colors are sorted into pre-cut lengths of embroidery thread, so I can just do a single length and call it good. It's sort of color-by-numbers, so I'm doing one color at a time to make things easier for myself.

Done!

[ysabetwordsmith]

I got a lot done today!

* Pulled most of the weeds from inside the septic garden.

* Filled 2 big clay pots on the patio and planted them with flowers. One palettte is purple-and-white, the other a very artistic purple-and-yellow.

* Filled the last 3 big taupe pots, put them on the north side of the new picnic table, planted one with crosne knotroots, sowed the other two with goldenberries and ground cherries.

* Replaced the broken grass shears, got mosquito dunks, and picked up 2 bags of potting soil and 2 bags of composted manure.

* Put a mosquito dunk in the trough pot to kill the mosquito larvae in there. It uses a disease that targets mosquitoes and blackflies, so it should be harmless to other wildlife. Important since I put the trough pond there for the tree frogs who like to hang out in the container garden once the plants get bigger and the weather warms.

\o/

[malurette]

Scarf is still going and I've found my seam-ripper (plus a handful of pens, two safety pins, and a fork. Please don't ask.)