Check-In Post - Aug 22nd 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: Share your favourite crafting tip, if you have one.


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[badly_knitted]

Another 6 brown and yellow bees knitted, and four of them sewn up and stuffed.

[wiseheart]

Clearly, you're working yourself up towards a whole hive! *g*

[badly_knitted]

I'm thinking 2 dozen should be enough. Depends on how many the shop wants to try and sell, of course. I can always make more, but I want enough to put on sale.

[darkcedars]

Agree, 2 dozen should be plenty.

[badly_knitted]

Hopefully, because I need to get on with sewing up and stuffing the pumpkins and I would have liked to finish the cross stitch rose.

[nagi_schwarz]

Look at you go! You're a champion!

[badly_knitted]

I got more done yesterday than I expected to.

First step completed!

[wiseheart]

The front pages of the twin dollhouse books. Take a look:



And this is one of them, with the front door opened, so that the staircase would be visible:



Once again, the colours are not exactly true, the pale blue background looks more grey, and the berries on the bushes look too pale, but it gives you an overall impression. I'm fairly proud of my accomplishments, despite the fact that one of the houses stands askew and there are other mistakes as well. Still, it was an ungodly amount of work, and I'm glad it's done and that it's turned out well.

Two pages done, fourteen more to go.

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[badly_knitted]

They look so good! Love the flowers in the windows and the bunnies in the bushes!

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[wiseheart]

Thank you. 🥰

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[darkcedars]

They look great! The bunnies sneaking out of the bushes are cute.

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[wiseheart]

Those are sneaky bunnies indeed. 😉

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[nagi_schwarz]

Those look adorable! The bunnies in the bushes are so cute. The kiddos are going to love those!

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[wiseheart]

I hope so. I still have to put the bunnies on a leash somehow, so that they won’t get lost right away, though. 😏

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[meridian_rose]

The door opens! I was impressed and then the door opened too! Amazing!

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[wiseheart]

It is an interactive book. The sün can be moved from one cloud to the other, too.

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[spiralicious]

They look amazing!

[nagi_schwarz]

Made some progress on the new blanket, which is a bunch of smaller motifs that I will eventually have to stitch together. This is one of those odd patterns where reading the diagram is easier for me than reading the pattern itself, but that's okay! The motifs are working up pretty fast so far, but we shall see if I get bored of repeating them so much. Been alternating colors to make it more interesting for myself, since usually I tend to just do one color at a time. Might have misread the pattern and bought double the amount of yarn I really need, but I definitely have a use for the other half, so that's okay.

[meridian_rose]

You can never have too much yarn. Or wool, or notebooks, or whatever a staple of your craft is ;) I hope the blanket comes together well, it sounds interesting :)

[wiseheart]

You can always find use for excess supplies, even if it takes time. ☺️

[badly_knitted]

Good luck with the new blanket! You might have enough yarn for two!

[malurette]

Slight alteration today: I have a one-size-too-tight long-sleeved shirt, took the cuffs off with my trusted seam-ripper, sewed a new little hem, and voilà: new pajama top with three-quarter sleeves!

[badly_knitted]

Wooo! Well done!