Check-In Post - May 28th 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?


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[peaceful_sands]

Finished the first of the 'travelogue' scrapbook/photo albums - Only got to part way through my time in Mongolia (mostly due to the amount of photos I picked to go in - but I did write quite a bit as well which has taken another bit of a chip out of my word count goal - still a long way to go though.

There have been a few bits done on the cardigan, but still a sleeve and a half to get through (blame the time spent on the travel project and its associated clutter) along with the fact that I injured myself last Friday (by sleeping - I wasn't doing anything exciting!) and haven't been able to turn my head/lift my right (dominant) arm for almost a week now - and can't get a physio appointment until mid-next week at the earliest (and that's with a physio I've not been to before - the two physios I know can't fit me in due to holidays until at least a week after that!).

[fadingfootsteps]

It's always a bitch when you fuck up your anatomy via the crime of sleeping funny. One time a hotel pillow got me so I couldn't turn my neck much to the left for a few days.

I respect that I'm probably not helpful, but would tiger balm on the relevant vertebrea loosen the area up for movement? Or is too loose the problem? Swear to god it's how I fixed my neck, but it's a whole other ballpark ik.

[peaceful_sands]

Thanks for the suggestion - I've tried Deep Heat and heat packs but have had most success with ice packs. Still pain has gone down a notch or two and I can at least lie down/get up again which is a bit of an improvement.

[darkcedars]

The album sounds really neat, hurting yourself while sleeping does NOT. Sorry you're having to wait to get help too!

[peaceful_sands]

Thanks

[badly_knitted]

Well done! I still think that's an awesome project, and an amazing travel experience.

Good progress on the cardigan too.

So sorry you managed to hurt yourself =( Bodies are so inconvenient. I hope the physio can help.

[peaceful_sands]

It's been nice to revisit the memories of the places I went and people I met, and the experiences and things I learned. I guess it's been even more thought provoking because the world is so different today and travel not such a certainty/possibility again.

[badly_knitted]

Yeah, the world these days seems to get grimmer by the day =(

I'm glad you got to take that trip and have the memories to look back on.

[wiseheart]

Oh, that is horrible! I hope you'll get the help you need.

[peaceful_sands]

I have my fingers crossed for a cancellation and an earlier visit but I'm not counting on it. Thanks for the thoughts.

[nagi_schwarz]

Congrats on getting the first album done! Scrapbooking is more complicated than people realize. Mongolia sounds like so much fun!

Also way to go on the cardigan!