Check-In Post - June 27th 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 swirly sunburst is stitched, and I've started stitching the first seashell. I made a mistake though, had to unpick and re-do a bit. Not much, less than a dozen stitches, but it's sorted.

[yarnandglue]

You've been on a cross stitch roll lately! Congrats!

[badly_knitted]

Thanks! Summer is my cross stitch time. I cut and prepped the fabric for a couple hundred designs last summer (got a bit carried away going through my magazines). Now I can just pick out what I want to stitch next and get going on it with very little fiddling =)

[wiseheart]

I bet it looks pretty!

[badly_knitted]

Well, it will once the seashell looks more like a shell... Not quite there yet.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Great job!

[badly_knitted]

Thank you!

[nagi_schwarz]

Yay for sunburst. Boo for unpicking though…

[badly_knitted]

Thankfully it wasn't much to unpick.

[wiseheart]

I fetched the lavender and the cherry pits from school, and I was trying to process them for the rest of the day. The cherry pits got boiled several times and are now drying on the extremely warm balcony - no need to put them into the oven, 31 degrees (tomorrow and several days afterwards) ought to do the trick. The lavender is to 40 percent processed; thankfully, it's dry enough already, but processing lavender is a bit like cooking spinach. You start with a huge heap of it, but by the time you've reduced it to the actually usable elements, you end up with the amount that would fit into a thimble. Ah, well.

[badly_knitted]

Well done with progress!

Yes, that IS the problem with lavender. But it smells so lovely.

[wiseheart]

Unless you try to eat and your fingers smell of lavender. 😉

[badly_knitted]

I believe lavender is edible...

[wiseheart]

If you like the taste of soap…

[badly_knitted]

*laughs* I'll pass.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Interesting! I love cherries. I wish I could donate the pits to you.

[wiseheart]

That would be very helpful indeed. 🤗

[nagi_schwarz]

Kudos to you for all the processing! That does sound like so much work…

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

A collage which sort of straddles PRIDE and 4th of July.

[badly_knitted]

Ooh, very colourful!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thanks!

[nagi_schwarz]

Gorgeous! I love all the patterns.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you!!

[althea_valara]

Worked on capybara. I thought I only had a few motifs left, but I failed to account for the ones that make the nose. Yesterday I finished the back legs. Today I've done the front legs and the first nose square. Four more squares, a heart for the nose, and a heptagon left, IIRC.

I've given my Nerdopolis team and rogues my usual "END OF ROUND APPROACHETH!" reminder. I had really hoped to get the Sophie Scarf done too, but it's probably not going to happen as I'll be busy all day tomorrow. Perhaps I can bang it out on Sunday? We'll see.

In other news, I am learning the Python programming language, and am starting to wonder what kind of capstone project I can do with it. Something craft related would be fun, but we already have Ravelry... or I could do something video game related but I can't think of anything off the top of my head. I still have a while to go before I'm ready to start work on a capstone project -- I've only just started the third course of five today -- but it's fun to ponder.

[nagi_schwarz]

Kudos to you on Python progress! That’s awesome. And yay for capybara progress!

[badly_knitted]

Great progress on your cute capybara! Looking forward to seeing the finished result.

Good luck with the scarf, hope you can finish it.

I am impressed by your ability to learn programming languages. It's good to start thinking about what you'll do for your project well before you need to do it. That way there's no frantic last minute rush trying to come up with an idea.

[nagi_schwarz]

50/55 rows of blanket completed. On the home stretch for reals! Hoping to work on it a bunch tonight while watching a new episode of a drama.

[badly_knitted]

Yay! Good luck with getting it finished!

[wiseheart]

Almost done! Go you!