Check-In Post - Sept 13th 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]

I was out all morning, collecting my new glasses and mooching around the charity shops, so I didn't have time for much crafting after I got home. I had to fit some writing in first. I did knit two more pumpkins though.


Found some good deep green DK yarn in the charity shops for pumpkin stems, and grabbed a couple more balls of orange so I can make more pumpkins. Different, brighter shade so that will add variety.


Nipped in the shop that has my be brooches on sale and 6 or 7 have already sold! Yay! I left another 6 for re-stocking purposes. That leaves me with 6 more at home. Not sure if I should make another batch or not.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Oh wow! You're selling your stuff! Go you!

[badly_knitted]

Only a few little bits. There's a shop in town that helps teach autistic young people and those with learning difficulties to handle interacting with people and doing a job, serving at the counter, dealing with customers. The shop sells the work of local artists and craftspeople, and I was shopping in there last year when Shelly, the manager, took a liking to the knitted meece brooch I was wearing and asked if I'd be interested in selling some at the shop, which I was. Now I have bee brooches for sale. They're only on sale for 3 months, then someone else will take my slot, but two dozen meeces were sold last year so I'm hoping the bee brooches will do as well. I don't get a lot of money for them, and the shop gets a percentage, but every little bit helps.

[sister_raphael]

Ooooo charity shops are the best! Glad you found yarn!

[badly_knitted]

Yes, I have tons of yarn but not much in the colours I need for the pumpkins. The green was an absolute godsend as that was what I needed the most. The orange I bought brand new, but only because it was a different, brighter shade to what I've been using. I'll have pumpkins in at least 4 different shades of orange.

Done!

[ysabetwordsmith]

Today was sweltering, so actual crafting got done. I assembled the large terrarium with a polka dot plant and a fern. \o/ I took pictures, so hopefully I can get those up later.


>> This Week's Question: Share your favourite crafting tip, if you have one. <<

Periodically check your supplies and toss out or use up anything that has gone bad. Some crafts have very durable supplies, like glass beads. But paint, adhesives, etc. can dry out. Critters can get into yard. And so on.

Some things that are past their first use can have another. Beads with improper holes can be put into mosaics. Paint that is getting too fudgey for portraits can be used for impasto. And so on.

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[badly_knitted]

That's a good reminder that some things have a limited shelf life.

Well done with the terrarium. Looking forward to pics.

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[ysabetwordsmith]

Both the candy jar terrarium and today's breakdown of the fairy garden lantern have their pictures up on my journal now.

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[badly_knitted]

I have seen! The lantern looks like it will interesting.

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[ysabetwordsmith]

Yeah, I love the shape of this thing.

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[sister_raphael]

Terrariums are great, aren't they?

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[ysabetwordsmith]

I love them. Mom and I used to make them when I was little. She had a huge beehive-shaped one that started life as a pickle jar. I'm watching for one of those to cross my path again. Meanwhile I figured it would make sense to practice with smaller ones. I've built several this year.

[sister_raphael]

Some carved flowers arrived which I'm using yo add to some noticeboards, and I tried to add some extra details but when they were stained, they looked terrible, so back to the drawing board. Maybe use them as is?

[badly_knitted]

So annoying when things don't work out the way you're hoping they will.