Check-In Post - July 2nd 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: What do you like to listen to / watch while crafting?


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]

More progress on the fourth seashell design, maybe two thirds of the shell is stitched. As always, this is the fiddly part and takes the longest, made more difficult by uncooperative thread. It kept knotting, and while some knots pulled undone easily, several times I had to cut the thread and discard the knotted bit. Grrr.

[wiseheart]

Uncooperative thread is a real killjoy. :(

[badly_knitted]

It was like every few stitches it knotted again. Drove me nuts!

[nagi_schwarz]

Sorry the thread got knotted. That sounds super frustrating.

[badly_knitted]

It usually happens a few times, but this seemed like ALL the time. Most annoying.

[wiseheart]

All 14 sachets sewn in advance have been filled, sewn closed and decorated.

Here they are!

I think they've turned out rather neat, but I'm biased, of course. I still have enough lavender left for one more sachet, but I don't feel like sewing one just yet. Perhaps when I start making the cherry pit pillows...

[badly_knitted]

They are so pretty! I'm sure they will be popular.

[althea_valara]

Oooh, they're lovely!

[nagi_schwarz]

Those sachets are gorgeous! Way to go!

[althea_valara]

sunshine_revival is happening and the friending meme asked what DW communities you participate in and of COURSE I mentioned get_knitted, it is my very favorite community on DW.

New month, new goals, new projects. Today I worked on the Mosaic Cardi for about a half hour while listening to the second Murderbot audiobook. I also started a gnome with the new yarn I had bought for them from Hobbii.

Might do more today, but knowing me, will play games after dinner.

[nagi_schwarz]

So many projects going on! You can do it!

[badly_knitted]

Aw, thank you so much! *hugs* We love having you here!

Excellent work on the cardi, and I look forward to seeing the gnome when it's finished.

Hope you had fun gaming or whatever you decided to do.

[nagi_schwarz]

Didn’t manage to finish the blanket yesterday. Hoping to finish it tonight while I give a podfic an editing listen.

[badly_knitted]

Good luck on finishing! Hope the podfic doesn't require a lot of editing.