Check-In Post - Sept 23rd 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 (courtesy of ysabetwordsmith): For those of us who do yarn crafts, what kinds of yarn do you prefer working with and why?


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[badly_knitted]

I managed to knit two pumpkins last night while watching TV, so today I sewed up and stuffed all five I had ready, then knitted another one.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Yay for pumpkins!

[nagi_schwarz]

Woohoo! Way to go, Pumpkin Boss!

[sister_raphael]

Yay pumpkins!

[spiralicious]

Very nice!

Go you!

[ysabetwordsmith]

Knitted pumpkins are so cute.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Tis the season to start making Halloween cards. My first one has a pumpkin theme. For the first time, I tried a Dutch door.

[badly_knitted]

Wheee, Halloween fun! Pumpkins galore!

[wiseheart]

Oooh, the pretties!

[nagi_schwarz]

Those look so fun! All the pumpkins are so cool.

[sister_raphael]

These are lovely!

[spiralicious]

Very cute!

Wow!

[ysabetwordsmith]

Those cards are so eye-catching.

There is no such thing

[wiseheart]

...as useless craft supplies. Today, I made tiny little Christmas elves, using supplies I had bought randomly, just because they were pretty. Well, the little gnomes are pretty, too - save that they have no faces yet. I'll post a pic as soon as I've drawn their little faces; hopefully tomorrow.

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[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Nice! Good to use things you already have. Faceless Christmas elves! :)

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[badly_knitted]

Oh, those sound fun!

Looking forward to the pics!

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[nagi_schwarz]

Way to go making the little Christmas Elves! I look forward to pictures.

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[sister_raphael]

Xmas elves! Hooray!

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[spiralicious]

Well done!

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[ysabetwordsmith]

Yeah, I like to keep supplies around so that, when I want to do a project, I don't need to buy much if anything new for it.

[nagi_schwarz]

/o\ Was bad and bought crochet patterns I didn't need (but may want to make in the future) (by the time I make all these dolls my girls will be too big for dolls T.T).

Also I helped a friend re-learn how to knit, since she comes along to crafting group and says she wants to learn again to make things for her daughter and also little sweaters for her super cute dog (who loves me and cuddled with me while our kids played).

I did get some more sewing done on the baby blanket, which is...much smaller than I thought it'd be despite making a hundred motifs, but that's okay, it'll still be big enough for a baby.

[sister_raphael]

Never hurts to have future project patterns!

[sister_raphael]

ANSWER TO THIS WEEK: I don't do a lot of yarn crafts, but I love silk for embroidery and use crochet cotton for luceting laces to lace up things.

[badly_knitted]

Silk is the best for embroidery. I have a few colours that I occasionally use to add a bit of luxury to cross stitch.

Crochet cotton has many uses. I just wish I could remember where I put my stash because the drawstring on one pair of track pants broke and I need to make a new one.

[spiralicious]

The internet came back! (It was out for over 7 hours yesterday, starting just before 5pm my time. I do not know why and it really messed up my evening plans. I'm just glad it's back.)

Yesterday was card making with Lynne. We did simple fall themed cards, just gluing down precut papers & some self adhesive rhinestones. She seemed to like them. I finished the design of next week's card. It ended up having far more steps than intended. Cross your fingers for me.

Knitting wise, I've been working on the second half of the cable hat. It had a rough start. I had to frog the ribbed brim three times and there is a nearly undetectable screw up in the second row of the cable chart (I can't even see it now). There was also a tense few minutes during the row that transitions from the ribbing to the cable pattern where I blanked on how to do the increases and couldn't look them up. After a few tries, it came back to me, luckily, and now I'm making steady progress.

Today, I got to run some errands I've been having to put off and ended up getting a lot of crafting supplies: skeins of yarn for an upcoming workbook project, blank "hotel" style keyrings, fake blood bags, some blank calendars, donut erasers (Funko props), some play coins I'm going to paint, and more adhesive to use making cards with Lynne.

I'm actually a little salty about the adhesive. I cannot afford to keep her in adhesive and none of the people who have said they're going to get it for her have and she is basically out. So, I've decided since it's just to two of us now, I will buy one spare tape runner and one set of refills (which the store is not carrying at the moment), and they will stay with me when we are not actively using them, for the time being. After that, we will have to resort to glue sticks which did not go well last time.

[badly_knitted]

I keep losing internet at the moment too. Not for very long, but it's a huge nuisance and I have no idea what's happening. Three times this week!

Glad the card-making went well, and good luck for next week.

You will get to a point where you remember how to do all the things like increases (there are many different ways of doing those, depending on what you want them to look like). All of it will eventually become second nature so you won't have to think about it.

That's so annoying. I hate when people say they'll do something and then don't do it. Maybe nag them about it. You shouldn't have to be paying for someone else's supplies.

[malurette]

I decided I've finished the three-colour core of my Sushi Scarf. Now I'll have to wrap it in more and more layers of off-white.

[badly_knitted]

Sounds like it's coming along!