Check-In Post - June 22nd 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]

The border of the second seashell card is complete and I've started stitching the first... scallop shell, I think.


Also did a spot of cutting back brambles, when it wasn't raining. It's been raining off and on all day though.

[fadingfootsteps]

shells are fun, usually. Brambles and rain, not so much...

[badly_knitted]

They make for interesting cross stitch subjects.

Brambles are one of the banes of my life. I'm going to have a lot of blackberries this year.

[wiseheart]

Clearly, the Battle of Brambles is designed to last forever. My sympathies.

[badly_knitted]

They are growing back where I cut them down before, so now I have to cut them down again so I can get at the gooseberries when they're ready for picking =/

[nagi_schwarz]

Kudos to you for getting work done between the raindrops!

[badly_knitted]

Thank you!

[sister_raphael]

That sounds nice!

[badly_knitted]

Thanks.

[fadingfootsteps]

More bag done, the 14th scale row is done and I got the 15th lattice.

If anyone who's not me is interested in free knitting and crochet patterns Yarnspirations is running a charity event where they'll donate based on the amount of downloads they get

[badly_knitted]

Well done! Keep it up (when you can)!

Thanks for the link!

[yarnandglue]

Good to know about Yarnspirations! Thank you for the heads up!

[nagi_schwarz]

Oooh thank you for the tip! And yay for bag progress!

[wiseheart]

I labelled 12 more cellophane bags (the ones that'll -hopefully - contain the Turkish delight), but that was all I was able to do crafting-wise. It was a hot day, with added duties.

[badly_knitted]

That is still good progress!

[nagi_schwarz]

Way to go!

Sorry for the hot weather. I feel you.

[sister_raphael]

12 more done is 12 more done

[althea_valara]

Did a motif of the capybara earlier today. Procrastinating from doing another. I should really work on it, or the Sophie scarf, if I want to finish them this month...

I'm not sure I mentioned I am doing a Sophie. It's for a Nerdopolis challenge. The theme is "how do people in your Nerdery travel about?" and as I am a big Final Fantasy fan, of COURSE I am choosing the chocobo as my inspiration. I've already made stuffed chocobos and colorwork chocobos, so for the challenge I'm just doing the simple Sophie Scarf in yellow yarn (yellow is the default color for chocobos, though they come in other colors.) I'm still very early in the scarf though... I have the second Murderbot Diaries audiobook checked out though, so I think I'm going to listen to that and work on the scarf.

[badly_knitted]

Every motif is capybara progress!

Good luck with the scarf, and I hope you enjoy the audiobook.

[nagi_schwarz]

Yay for progress on the capybara! And audiobooks are awesome for crafting time.

[sister_raphael]

Awesome.

[nagi_schwarz]

Discovered last night after I finished the row of puff stitches…that I had missed the row before it and that was why the math was not math-ing. I just took myself off to bed and then frogged the entire row today and started on the row I skipped. That’s okay! I can keep pushing forward. On the home stretch for reals.

[sister_raphael]

Oh no!

[badly_knitted]

Ooof, how annoying! Glad you're back on track now.