Check-In Post - June 26th 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]

Most of the border on the current seashell design is finished. I did find another mistake, so the inner border is missing a couple more stitches, but... tough. Still got the swirly sunburst to stitch, and then the two long, spiral seashells in the centre, but I'm getting there.

[wiseheart]

As long as no-one else notices the mistakes you're okay. :)

[badly_knitted]

They might notice, but it doesn't matter.

[wiseheart]

I was somewhat crafty today. I've started filling the lavender sachets, now that I can hope for more raw material. Seven are filled and sewn closed, seven more to go, depending on how many lavender I get tomorrow... and perhaps even later on.

[badly_knitted]

Yay for crafting! Those lavender sachets are going to be lovely.

[malurette]

I sprained my ankle last weekend and even though my hands are totally fine I've been in such a funk I couldn't manage to do anything crafty.
Until a friend needed help patching up a pair of deckchairs' whose canvas got damagend in the wash. We used an old torn up denim as fabric donor, pinned it up, got the sewing kit out. I showed him how to do a basic stitch. We spent three whole hours and lo and behold in the end when he tried his refurbished chair... the fabric had become way too slack anyway. We could have avoided all the patching by just folding over the holes and sewing a new... roll-thingie-in-which-you-slid-the-rung. And we could still do; I offered to re-do it. But he was so upset (understandably so!!) by the whole thing that he decided, no, he would just trash the whole thing and buy new canvases. (And yeah honestly there's a high chance that even if, it'd rip again a bit further anyway.)

[badly_knitted]

Ah well, at least the attempt was made.