Check-In Post - June 16th 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

[badly_knitted]

And I have started my next project! More cross stitch, this time a set of 6 seashell designs. I've made good progress on the border of the first one. There aren't a lot of colours involved, blues and light browns / cream, very sand and sea, but I like the way the designs look.

[wiseheart]

As long as you're enjoying it, the colours are of secondary importance. :)

[badly_knitted]

The borders are quite abstract, and not symmetrical, which I find oddly appealing =)

They should be fun to stitch.

[sister_raphael]

Seashells are pretty!

[badly_knitted]

They are, and these designs will be a nice change of pace.

[nagi_schwarz]

Those sound lovely! I love seashells.

[wiseheart]

I've found a YouTube video (see here about a quick and easy method to make paper gift bags. I'll need an ungodly amount of cellophane bags for my Christmas fair wares, so I gave it a try. Admittedly, cellophane is a lot harder to handle this way than wrapping paper, but I managed 9 bags nonetheless. 7 more are due tomorrow. All in all, I have the raw materials for 64 bags - that ought to be enough, I think. At least it's faster than weaving those little paper baskets... of which I'll also have to make a lot yet. And there are only five and a half months left till the fair. *sigh*

[badly_knitted]

You can do it! *cheers you on*

[wiseheart]

Thanks for the voice of confidence. 🤯

[sister_raphael]

That's a lot of bags!

[wiseheart]

I am not sure I will need to make all of them. We’ll see. I’ll make perhaps half the amount first.

[nagi_schwarz]

Wow. That's so many bags. Kudos to you for getting everything done! You're a champion.

[mrs_sweetpeach]

Below the cut are my latest six cat beds.




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[badly_knitted]

They look comfy!

[sister_raphael]

These are really lovely!

[nagi_schwarz]

Those are lovely! So sweet of you to make them for charity too.

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[ysabetwordsmith]

Today I have picked mulberries and black raspberries. More of the vegetables are blooming or have green fruit. :D

Yesterday we made two new recipes.

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[sister_raphael]

mmmmm berries! :)

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[ysabetwordsmith]

I'm hoping to make sauce with the mulberries, to put over ice cream.

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[wiseheart]

Sounds yummy. 😌

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[badly_knitted]

Sounds like you will have plenty of fruit and vegetables to experiment with!

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[nagi_schwarz]

Excellent! Was able to pick strawberries the last few days and the children have been enjoying the bounty that I have admittedly put little effort into (but the neighbors' new cat has been discouraging the local chipmunks from taking the strawberries instead).

Do you plan to make anything with your bounty? I have never made jam before...yay for blooming and soon-to-be edible fruit!

[sister_raphael]

Vast amounts of restitching to replace the machine sewing with hand sewing on a cloak, but also I need to sew these gorgeous brooches on.

[wiseheart]

Oh, those look gorgeous indeed!

[badly_knitted]

Ooh, they really are lovely!

[nagi_schwarz]

Those are gorgeous! Kudos to you for hand sewing.

[nagi_schwarz]

Went to crafting day and managed...like a third of a round but the end is in sight and I am doing my best to utilize the when-husband-is-driving-it's-free-crocheting-time method of getting things done, so progress is good!