Check-In Post - Aug 30th 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]

Only 9 pumpkins stuffed today, so I'm up to 32.


I decided to mow the lawn today, so I got most of it done but broke my new lawnmower =/ I snapped one of the plastic bolts attaching the handle to the body of the mower. My lawn needs levelling. It's too lumpy bumpy.

[wiseheart]

How annoying! I hope you can get ersatz parts for the thing. At least you now have 9 pumpkins more than you had yesterday, and that's progress.

[badly_knitted]

I'm going to investigate, find where I can get the parts, and order several of them so I've got spares. Then I'm going to try to acquire a manual lawn roller, see if I can flatten the lawn a bit.

The pumpkin stuffing is going well enough, but they take a lot of stuffing.

[wiseheart]

I finally sorted out several boxes of buttons someone gave me years ago (her in-laws had a small button manufacture and when they died, a lot was left over). I filled with the 12 little sewing boxes I'd made for the fair with fistfuls of mixed buttons, which also solved the problem of the expendable ones. *g*

Sewing-wise I didn't make much progress. I've made one pillow-case, out of sheer, pig-headed stubbornness, but that was all. Tomorrow I'll do better... or so I hope.

[badly_knitted]

The sorting of buttons and adding them to the sewing kits is a big job. Well done for fitting some sewing in as well.

[malurette]

Now that I have more time on my hands again and the weather is a bit cooler I'm looking forward to knitting again!
But first, I had to take care of a shirt that had lost a button in the middle. Didn't feel like waiting for market day to go buy a matching new button so I went through all the worn-out shirts waiting for alteration looking for a suitable replacement and the only one that was close enough was from the one I transformed into a pajama last week, though I was afraid it would still look a bit too different so I chose to take off the bottom button, transplant it to the missing one's spot in the middle, then replace that.

[badly_knitted]

A very sensible fix. It's a shame more shirts don't come with spare buttons. It's so easy to lose one.