Check-In Post - Sept 3rd 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]

Today I finished six mini meeces I knitted last year — sewn up, stuffed, ears and tails attached, brooch backs sewn on and faces stitched. I still have two more to do, plus a whole stack of larger meeces that were also knitted last year sometime. Getting them finished as well might be a good idea.


Planning to knit some more pumpkins while watching TV later.

[wiseheart]

Yay, meeces! I still have two of those you sent me years ago sitting on the shelf above my desk and next to the telly, respectively (the other three having wandered off to the granddaughters of a friend), and Mum loves them to pieces as well. :)

[badly_knitted]

Yay, they all found good homes! Glad yours are happy!

[nagi_schwarz]

I still have the meece you sent me and it's so adorable! Way to go on getting more done.

Happy watching and knitting!

[badly_knitted]

Glad your meece is happy!

Thank you! I need to finish some outstanding projects, so I thought the meeces would be a good starting point.

[spiralicious]

Good luck with your pumpkins and meeces :)

[fadingfootsteps]

projects still damp from yesterday so no working on it :(

ah well, like I said before the breaks probably needed.

[badly_knitted]

An enforced rest might not be a bad thing. You can carry on once the project is completely dry.

[nagi_schwarz]

Sounds like a break is needed indeed! Kick your feet up and celebrate the progress so far.

[spiralicious]

Rests are a good thing.

[wiseheart]

I've labeled the marmalade jars and processed the pink grapefruits for making jam tomorrow.

Behold my marmalade:



I think the jars turned out pretty enough.

No other crafting got done today - I had extended kitchen duty and felt too drained afterwards.

[badly_knitted]

They look great!

[nagi_schwarz]

Those look so cute! But yes, do rest after extended kitchen duty.

[spiralicious]

They are adorable jars.

[nagi_schwarz]

Didn't get any crafting done today but I got a good amount done at crafting yesterday.

22/22 purple motifs complete.

21/30 lavender motifs complete.

20/30 white motifs complete.

0/6 vertical half motifs complete.

0/10 horizontal half motifs complete.

[spiralicious]

Well done!

[badly_knitted]

You certainly are making good progress with the motifs! Well done!

[spiralicious]

I'm having a bad day, but I still wanted to check in.

Monday was card making with Lynne. It was a very short card making session with a simple card that involved layering circles and putting a sticker in the center. She quite liked it. Unfortunately, I didn't get a chance to design a future card (I do have one set up for next week) because I spent the next 2 hours going over the monthish of mail that had built up with her. We got everything taken care of except a medical follow up from her insurance I couldn't help her with. I helped with some other things too before we made cards. Helping her is becoming more of a struggle.

On the knitting front, I've started on the next project in the workbook since I had the yarn for it - nice normal, if tiny, yarn. It's a lace knitting sampler. I've been doing a chart pattern section a day as they are short, 12 rows, plus the 6 rows of border between each one. The charts are small and only show the right side rows, so I'm having a little trouble reading them, but otherwise it's going well. Today, I looked ahead and saw there is a mistake in the last chart and I'm not 100% sure how to fix it. I've got an idea of what to do though.

I'm supposed to be writing a proposal for a talk on "there is no wrong way to journal", but I keep second guessing myself.

[badly_knitted]

Sorry to hear you're having a bad day *hugs* Hope things improve soon.

You're doing what you can fort Lynne, but don't pile too much on yourself.


Charts can be hard to follow, but you'll get used to it. They only usually show the pattern rows, with the reverse rows being purl. I find putting a ruler or a strip of paper on the chart below the row I'm knitting helps me to keep my place. Good luck with fixing the error.

Also good luck with the proposal!

[spiralicious]

*hugs* thanks

It was my first set of charts I'd encountered like that. Good to know it's the norm. I ended up using a couple index cards, one below the row and one moving along the row to keep my place. Thanks!

I got sidetracked and still need to finish the proposal XD

[badly_knitted]

I've been knitting from charts for years, and the hardest part is keeping track of where you are. Glad you found a way to do that.

You'll get there. Getting distracted is so easy.