Check-In Post - June 25th 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]

More progress on the third seashell design. All the yellow is done except for the swirly sunburst in one corner, and I've made good progress on the first two shades of blue in the border.


One thing I like about these is that the borders are all like different sections of the same design, so they're similar but no two are the same.

[wiseheart]

Sounds interesting. I'm glad you enjoy yourself with these.

[badly_knitted]

Thanks. I made a tiny mistake today, not paying enough attention to the chart, but I'm leaving it. One stitch the wrong colour is not that serious.

[yarnandglue]

That's fun that the sections are similar but not identical! It keeps projects from feeling like they're dragging.

[badly_knitted]

Yes, and when the border is done there's the more fiddly work of stitching the seashell(s) in the centre, four colours and then black for the backstitch. Makes for plenty of variety.

[nagi_schwarz]

Excellent progress! Way to go! They sound like lovely designs. Excited for photos!

[badly_knitted]

Thanks! It will be some time before I get to photographs, I'm only on the third of six designs, with probably another 4 days of work on this one. But when they're done, there will be photos.

Well ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

It's a beautiful day to stay indoors and write, again. Yesterday I finished a section of the Llewellyn project I've been working on. I think I still have three sabbats left to cover.

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[badly_knitted]

Sounds like good writing progress!

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[yarnandglue]

It's not as hot in my part of Illinois but boy it sure is humid today! It definitely is a good day to stay in and write.

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[nagi_schwarz]

Way to go! You can do it!

[wiseheart]

We're boiled alive over here, so activities are rather on the low side. The most I did was plucking apart the dill and the rosemary a friend had brought on Saturday and putting them into jars, as they'd dried out completely by now. They'll be used for the spiced oil and salad vinegar for the fair.

In the evening our art teacher called and offered me lavender and cherry pits, which I can fetch from school on Friday. So, it seems there will be cherry pit pillows at the fair again. That's the good side of things. The not-so-good side is that I can start making pillow-cases for them. Perhaps I'll try to make Louise the Younger (the baby sewing machine) to cooperate. It would be quite the time-saver, but I'm not sure I can wrestle her into obedience.

[nagi_schwarz]

Oooh tell me more about cherry pit pillows. I am intrigued!

[wiseheart]

They are very useful; and versatile. Put them into the freezer for an hour and they are great for insect bites, inflamed body parts and the likes. When we got our Covid shots and our arms were swollen and hot, those pillows brought them back to normal in two or three days.

Also, they're very good for rheumatic pain. In that case, though, they need to be warmed up in the microwave (I can look up the right settings for you, as I don't have a microwave), or in the oven first. My cousin's wife used them (warmed up) when the kids had ear aches, too.

[nagi_schwarz]

Ah, okay! I've seen similar before but they're filled with corn instead...

[badly_knitted]

Well, it sounds like the raw materials for your sale items are rolling in! Plenty of variety for the fair, even if there's a lot of work to do.

Hope the weather will cool down for you.

[wiseheart]

That would be a blessing indeed!

[nagi_schwarz]

Managed to finish redoing the puff stitch row and I am on the home stretch for reals now. But school is now out for the summer so getting things done is going to be an even bigger adventure.

[badly_knitted]

Yay for being on the home stretch!

Sounds like you'll have to do the bulk of your crochet after the kids are in bed.

[wiseheart]

Yep, that's the pain of all parents in school holidays: what to do with the kids?