Check-In Post - July 10th 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?


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[badly_knitted]

The cross stitch for the last seashell card is finished, and I've started the backstitch. I would have finished it, but half the afternoon was spent outside, raking grass as my friend used his strimmer on the overgrown lawn. The grass was three feet tall in places. It is now short enough to use a lawnmower on, which I will get to at some point, once I put the new mower together. It was a big job, but at least now I don't have to wade through waist high grass to go down the garden.

[darkcedars]

Oh good. I've had to use the trimmer to knock things down a couple times when they go out of control.

[badly_knitted]

It looks better, still lumpy, bumpy, and uneven, but not insane any longer, lol!

[peaceful_sands]

Sounds like a productive day.

[badly_knitted]

That's one way of describing it... Didn't get much writing done though. Something had to be sacrificed for the rest to happen.

[wiseheart]

I don't have to wade through waist high grass to go down the garden.

And now you can spot any aliens that might have hidden in the grass! *g*

[badly_knitted]

Ooh, good point! No more aliens, or lions lurking in the long grass!

[darkcedars]

Trimmed the felting lint off one trivet, I needed it for a wedding gift tomorrow. Nothing like the last minute.

Finished scraping and repair on the first section of the house. Finally. I think.

Looked at my cousin's baby registry for color ideas. Almost everything is gray or beige. Bizarre.

[badly_knitted]

Well done, and just in time!

Hope that section really is done! Nothing worse than finding you missed a bit.

That is the most horrible colour scheme, especially for kids. They need colour.

[darkcedars]

This is the lower portion of the south side and it's in bad shape. Every time I think I have the last spot, I find something else.

I looked in my acrylic bin and a green, blue, and red that are the same brightness. I'll do those for the basket.

[badly_knitted]

Fingers crossed that last spot was really the last spot this time.

That sounds much more cheery than beige and grey.

[peaceful_sands]

Well done on all fronts - I hope the scraping and repair is done and you can move on to the next task. An unusual combination for a baby, although I guess it's neutral and they're fairly resilient colours.

[wiseheart]

Grey and beige are horrible. As someone else mentioned, babies need colours!

[peaceful_sands]

Working on the cardigan tonight but I'm really late starting so if I get the cuff done that will probably be enough to consider it excellent progress for today unfortunately.

[badly_knitted]

Good luck! A cuff would be great progress!

[darkcedars]

Good luck on the cuff. Sounds like a perfect amount for short time.

[peaceful_sands]

Cuff finished and that's it for tonight - hopefully I can do what the pattern calls 'neckline ribbing' as apart from making sure there's no tails etc that will be the project finished.

[badly_knitted]

Yay! Good luck with the neckline ribbing!

[readera]

I picked up an ufo to work on. I had a pair of socks mostly done for my partner. One just needed the bind off, which I did yesterday. The other needed the cuff mostly redo due to some holes in it. I'm working on thinking that back now.

[badly_knitted]

Yay! Well done finishing one sock, and good luck with the second!

[wiseheart]

Sorry for the absence. Somehow life managed to run away from me, without actually having done that much. Time is sooo relative.

Anyway, I've finished the new Santa pencil holder, and it looks like this:

https://hu.pinterest.com/pin/341640321753061777/

Other than that, not much crafting happened. July is picowrimo month, and I'm trying to use my non-existent free time for writing.

[badly_knitted]

Lovely! Well done!

Good luck with your writing.