Check-In Post - June 21st 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]

I made a bad mistake yesterday, miscounted so that the entire right hand side of the inner border was two stitches left of where it should have been, so that was a massive headache to unpick and redo. Nevertheless, I stitched the third shade of blue, and started on the yellow part of the border, which in this case is at the top of the design.

Also did a bit of work in the garden, cutting down brambles and other stuff, a bit this morning, and then a bit more this afternoon after it stopped raining.

[yarnandglue]

Oh no, unpicking cross stitch is the worst! I hope you can make it back up quickly.

[badly_knitted]

Oh, it's already done, I don't mess about, lol! Did that first, before I continued.

[wiseheart]

How annoying!

[badly_knitted]

Very annoying, but I fixed it.

[darkcedars]

That's so annoying!

And good job in the Battle of the Brambles.

[badly_knitted]

Very, but I fixed it.

Thanks. These brambles are all where I cut them back in April / May *sigh*

[wiseheart]

I've started labelling my cellophane bags - well, the ones I already know what they will contain, eventually. 16 done, so far. I hoped for some more, but we had a visitor in the morning (a very pleasant one), and then a bit of scare with Mum in the afternoon, so I had to postpone the rest.

[badly_knitted]

Well done, great progress. Hope your mum is okay.

[darkcedars]

Oh gosh, hope mom is better.

[darkcedars]

Did 2 rounds on the trivet.

Lots of chores. Chores chores chores.

[badly_knitted]

Well done finding time to work on the trivet despite all the chores.

[darkcedars]

I can't even scrape to get ready to paint, it's too windy!

[badly_knitted]

Weather is inconvenient =(

[althea_valara]

It's hot. Damned hot. I have been flat both yesterday and today with naps from the heat, even though I am indoors in A/C. Therefore, I feel accomplished that I did a few rounds on Alphi's pants, because I am mostly too lazy to do anything else. Stupid heat.

(How hot is it? 94 F / 34.4 C, with 64% humidity. YUCK.)

[fadingfootsteps]

ha... ha.... about pretty much par with 99F + 67% once I'd crawled out of work. Christ.

You have my sympathies, as sweat soaked as they may be,

[badly_knitted]

Way, WAY too hot! So sorry you're being melted by the heat, but well done with progress on Alphi's pants.

[fadingfootsteps]

NOT DEAD.

Fuck all else done though tbh. About halfway through the 14th row of scales, I suppose?

[badly_knitted]

Yay! Little green crane!

You're making progress, so that's great!

[sister_raphael]

Finished the grey hood except the buttons and buttonholes, but since they can be worn open anyway, that's it for now. The liripipe (tail) is stitched on and I'm pretty pleased with it. It's a little patchy looking in some lights because the wool cloth was secondhand to start with. I'm still very happy with it. Photo to follow.

I'm now sewing like mad on a green cloak. I unpicked the machine stitching to hand sew it and have discovered 9 tiny holes in the fabric. Sigh.

[badly_knitted]

The grey hood looks great!

Sucks about the holes in the green cloak though, it's such a lovely colour. But moths do love wool.