Check-In Post - July 25th 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]

Stitched the other two blue flowers on this design, plus four tiny leaves and most of the big heart. There's still a smaller heart to stitch.

[wiseheart]

Go you! I've just realized that I posted today's comment to yesterday's entry. My brain has definitely melted in this heat.

[badly_knitted]

Doesn't matter =)

Thank you!

[darkcedars]

Another good chunk done.

[badly_knitted]

Yes, I'm pleased with progress.

[mrs_sweetpeach]

Today I finished one cat bed and started the next. I was listening to the Small Town Murders/Crime in Sports podcast while crocheting. It helped keep my mind off how hot it was in the house as our power went out last night and didn't come back for about 20 hours. It got darn hot in here.

[darkcedars]

Oh my gosh, a long power outage. Glad you had something to work on.

[badly_knitted]

So sorry about the power outage, but will done with persevering with the crochet!

[marinarusalka]

Bummer about the power outage, but a crochet cat bed sounds very cozy! I hope your kitties appreciate it. :-)

[wiseheart]

Gah, that power outage sounds awful. We're being hit by another heat wave over here, so I can relate.

[darkcedars]

I finished the basket base last night. I meant to work this afternoon on the sides. I decided what order I'm doing the colors in, joined the first skein....and did 3 stitches. XD

[badly_knitted]

Three stitches is better than no stitches! Well done with completing the base.

[darkcedars]

I had my annual physical this morning and it used up all my energy.

[badly_knitted]

Which makes those three stitches even more impressive!

[wiseheart]

I second that!

[marinarusalka]

Hey, every little bit helps! And good job on finishing the base.

[wiseheart]

That's three stitches more than I did today, so you still win. :)

Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

Today I made omelettes filled with a handful of cherry tomatoes chopped with basil and garlic chives. :D

Re: Yes ...

[badly_knitted]

Sounds yummy!

[fadingfootsteps]

I'm working on my kit. It's a bunch of bees and a beehive, right,

while it's clear about how to attatch the bee's eyes it's also very stupid because there is no force on earth that can make me buy a needle small enough to thread the beads and sew them on.. So I decide "Just put the beads on the yarn and make it slightly beaded crochet. Solved."

And you know, that worked for bee #1. Futzy but not impossible.

Bee #2. I'm sat over two different work breaks and finally a coworker I eat munch with goes "How'd you even get the first set on?"

And this is how the lunch room was forced to hear me shout "SHEER GODDAMN LUCK APPARENTLY."

(#2's eyes are now on via using a hair strand as a loop to thread through the bead and use to pull the yarn through. This occured to me as an option embarrassingly late)

[badly_knitted]

A needle threader might also have worked. They can be handy for getting thread through beads if you don't want to invest in beading needles.

Well done for solving your problem with ingenuity! Now your bees can see where they're going ;)

[wiseheart]

Sounds like a lovely pattern. 😊