Check-In Post - July 4th 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

[malurette]

The blue shirt now has more breathing room but is still a tight fit across the chest. I took a few stitches off of the seam at the bottom of both sleeves so they're slightly split and give more room to my upper arms. Also took off the military-style decorative tabs on the shoulders that I thought were classy ten years ago and I'm more "meh" about nowadays--that'll give the illusion or more wiggle room around the shoulders... and also gives me two scraps of fabric that I could, theoretically, use to insert under the sleeve should I dare to split the seam further?
(Of course I could just go buy a new shirt... I hate shopping for trousers, shoes, underwear and sleepwear but I love getting new shirts. But somehow toying with alterations is so satisfying!!)

[badly_knitted]

As long as you're enjoying making the alterations, why not?

New shirts are fun too though.