Check-In Post - May 30th 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]

My new project is a small teacup design to make into a coaster as a gift. I've stitched about a third of it,

[wiseheart]

That sounds very cute. :)

[nagi_schwarz]

Wow! That sounds adorable.

[badly_knitted]

It's cute, I think it will look nice, but it's been a while since I worked with two strands of thread on 14 count fabric... I picked up the coasters and pre-cut fabric at a charity shop last year. There are 5 coasters, so I thought one would be a nice gift for my friend's friend.

[wiseheart]

Still at the culinary crafting. I've baked the rest of the biscuits. Tomorrow there will be some decorating, and then the project will be done.

BTW, has anyone else experienced problems with DW? Half the time I can't comment, and then the comment appears twice.

[nagi_schwarz]

Yay for more culinary crafting!

I have not had problems with DW but another friend of mine reported similar issues as well.

[badly_knitted]

Yes, last night after I posted, it kept telling me there was a problem and I ended up with my comment posted three times!

You commented in reply to my comment, and it somehow got deleted so I couldn't reply. Weirdness.

[nagi_schwarz]

Lots of crocheting done today! Managed almost two rows, which is a lot given that one row was mostly 4dc puff stitches.

[wiseheart]

Great job!

[badly_knitted]

Ooof, I've never done puff stitches, but I do know they're more complicated than regular stitches.

[fadingfootsteps]

intentionally doing next to nothing for a few days because blasting through three rows and still continuing onwards would be a really stupid way to predictably fuck up my wrist 👍 (plus work)

The longest sitting project is probably the succulent cushion rn. don't check my yarn container btw it definitely does NOT have yarn promised to a project I haven't even started yet. Totally not a thing I have

[badly_knitted]

Yes, good idea to rest your wrist.

Oh, we all have yarn that is promised for a particular project that hasn't been started yet. I have the yarn and the patterns picked out for at least three. It's totally normal.

[malurette]

Finished the scarf I'd been doing on-again off-again in-between other projects! Then I spent at least one hour maybe more untangling so many balls of yarn of two different very tangled projects--without having to cut through any in the end, yay!

[badly_knitted]

Well done finishing the scarf, and yay for successful untangling! That can be very satisfying.