Check-In Post - July 7th 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!

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[badly_knitted]

Still playing audiocassettes for background noise while crafting, but two tapes have proven unplayable. Well, I managed to get through one side of one of them, but they were crinkling up and the sound fading out. Other tapes before and after have played fine, so it's the tapes themselves, the only two Memorex tapes I've ever had. So glad I mostly stuck with Sony cassettes.


Anyway, despite interruptions to deal with the cassette tape issues, I've started the final seashell design, done the yellow part of the border and made good progress with the blue sections.

[wiseheart]

I've made the promised picture of the pencil holders, to look at them:



Today was writing day; no actual crafting got done.

[fadingfootsteps]

I'm chillin, likely for a while. Might wrap up that succulent cushion eventually but atm I'm doing more cranes at a pace previously only known to snails.