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

[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…