Check-In Post - June 9th 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 progress on the rooster's body. It's the largest of the 4 designs though, so there's still a lot to stitch. I'm about halfway up, the widest part is done, but the rest will take at least another 2 days just for the cross stitch, probably more like three. Unless I find more time to work on it.

[yarnofariadne]

3 more blanket rows completed, for a total of 28!

More baskets

[wiseheart]

Two more, to be accurate. (Photos later; I'm still thinking about further decoration.) First I tried to make one as it was in the video. It turned out well enough, but when it was done I realized I liked my first (presumably faulty) version better. So I made the third one that way again and am fairly pleased with it. I regret that I don't have these paper stripes in the really Christmassy colours - pale green, yellow and pink don't make me associate with Christmas - but they are there, they are pre-cut, so that they are all the same width, which is a blessing.

I hoped I'd be able to use the beautiful, translucent pink, purple and green stripes as well, but they don't look good interwoven with each other. Perhaps I'll give monocoloured (is that a word???) baskets a try. We'll see.

Well ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

Today I am setting up two different versions of comfrey liquid fertilizer. I have the first jug done, which is a handful of torn comfrey leaves in water. I still need to fill the second, which will be entirely stuffed with torn comfrey leaves.

[fadingfootsteps]

still working on i-cord one of two. they just take a while, being fiddly little bastards and all. The rhythm is clicking better but I still hate this <3

[nagi_schwarz]

Big plan tonight is to crochet some before I sleep. On to one of the puff stitch rounds, so I'll listen to an audiobook or podfic for extra enjoyment.