Check-In Post - Sept 14th 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.


If anyone has any questions of their own about the community, or suggestions for tags, questions to be asked on the check-in posts, or if anyone is interested in playing check-in host for a week here on the community, which would entail putting up the daily check-in posts and responding to comments, go to the Questions & Suggestions post and leave a comment.

I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[badly_knitted]

I have valiantly sewn up four pairs of arm warmers and pinned the next pair. I have another seven pairs to sew up, and another pair where I've only knitted the first once, sop there's still a long way to go. It's been overcast all day and pouring with rain all afternoon, so I couldn't take the meece mugshots yet. I will get there.


Also knitted another pumpkin.

[wiseheart]

You've been very brave indeed. Every project has a phase that is tedious; facing it requires strength.

[badly_knitted]

I certainly know that! Sewing up my knitting is the worst part. I shouldn't have let the arm warmers pile up though.

One more project finished

[wiseheart]

All my cherry pit pillows are sewn closed, and I find they look really cute.
What do you think?

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[badly_knitted]

I think they look adorable!

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[wiseheart]

Thank you! :)

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[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Oh, these are so charming. I love them. Well done!

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[wiseheart]

Thanks bunches! 🥰

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[spiralicious]

They are absolutely darling :D

[fadingfootsteps]

I've redone row 47 like three times now just because of mistakes I can't ignore. Hopefully, this time I get to stay on row 48 and beyond.

(the mistakes themselves I refuse to call dumb but it's essential to understand that they were the annoyingly small yet critical sorts)

[fadingfootsteps]

four.

[badly_knitted]

Those kinds of mistakes can be the most annoying. No matter how small, you know they're there and they just nag at you until you fix them. Well done for persevering.

Done!

[ysabetwordsmith]

Here are the pictures from yesterday's assembly of the candy jar terrarium.

Today I broke down the fairy garden so I can use its lantern container for an air plant terrarium.

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

Don't be afraid to break down older crafts into loose parts that you can use in fresh projects or donate for someone else to find.

Also if you have a craft space or makerspace, include bins for popular loose parts (e.g. melted marbles, pebbles, popsicle sticks, buttons) but also for conglomerate things that people can break down. Nonfunctional electronics or other small appliances can be broken down into plastic shells or panels, wire, gears, etc. for use in practical or decorative constructs. Waste not, want not.

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[badly_knitted]

Another great tip!

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[ysabetwordsmith]

You might consider making a gather post linking to various people's tips.

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[badly_knitted]

If I have time... I am tagging posts with useful links.

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[ysabetwordsmith]

Tagging is good. I try to check which tags would suit when I make a post.

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[badly_knitted]

If you have any tag suggestions, let me know.

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[ysabetwordsmith]

I recommend How To.

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[badly_knitted]

Okay, good one. I'll make that now.

[malurette]

With the weather turning cooler, getting that plaid done is becoming quite urgent. First I had to unstitch everything I'd done previously--roughly one quarter, and re-pin more carefully. Then instead of just sewing across the edge, I added a few stitches in the middle, and along the diagonals to help hold everything in place. I've just re-started on outer stitching this afternoon and haven't done much yet, but I'd better go slowly and carefully than fuck it up yet again.

[badly_knitted]

Good luck with the stitching, I hope this time everything goes smoothly!