Check-In Post - Oct 5th 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?


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]

Another 25 pumpkins have faces, and I stitched the eyebrows on the first 8. The faces aren't great, but I didn't really expect them to be. They'll do.

[fadingfootsteps]

Done is better than not and perfects an illusion! You've got it!

[badly_knitted]

Thank you! Pumpkins are an awkward shape to stitch on.

[wiseheart]

As long as they aren't giving you reproachful looks you are good! *g*

[badly_knitted]

Mostly they just look weird...

[sister_raphael]

I'm sure you don't need me to tell you that anything goes when it comes to pumpkin faces! :)

[badly_knitted]

It's a good thing, because they are awkward shapes.

[fadingfootsteps]

Working on the smaller doily today, about midway through row 20 right now (out of 25)

Nothing terribly exciting but still, moving forwards with it.

[wiseheart]

Progress is progress!

[badly_knitted]

That's great progress, well done!

[sister_raphael]

Any progress is progress!

Finally some actual progress!

[wiseheart]

After lunch I felt really tired, so I decided to take a short nap. Short nap lasted over two hours, but afterwards I almost felt like a human being again. I even brought up the strength to do a bit of crafting. Dressing room #2 now has a finished vanity table, and I started working on the wardrobe. Also, both dressing rooms got wall clocks yesterday, so we are moving on.

Re: Finally some actual progress!

[badly_knitted]

Oh, well done! The clocks sound like a great addition!

Re: Finally some actual progress!

[sister_raphael]

Vanity table finished is great! And clocks are nice.

[sister_raphael]

Having a bit of a think about polishing brass to a mirror finish for one or two medieval mirrors I'm making. I've got a lot of tidying and some book stuff to do which is a priority, but it's going to be on this week's list for sure.

[badly_knitted]

Hope you can find a method that works for the polishing.

Good luck with all the book stuff!