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?


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]

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]

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*

[mrs_sweetpeach]

Below the cut are my latest six cat beds.




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Yes ...

[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.

[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.

[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!