Check-In Post - Oct 22nd 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 cora): What was your last project that got put into "time out" 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

Re: Yes ...

[badly_knitted]

It's always fun seeing what other crafters have created.

All of that sounds tasty!

Stepping stones are handy. What exactly is a wormstone though? Sounds interesting.

Looking forward to seeing the lantern terrarium once it has its air plants in.

The food forest sounds awesome.

Re: Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

>> Stepping stones are handy. What exactly is a wormstone though? Sounds interesting. <<

They are beige flagstones with trace fossils of squiggly worm tunnels, some concave and others convex. I went looking for fossils at a nearby garden center that has a large rockyard, and found these.

>> Looking forward to seeing the lantern terrarium once it has its air plants in.<<

I hope to take pictures of that process too.

>> The food forest sounds awesome.<<

It is one of my favorite local resources. I keep hoping that if more people know about the concept, they'll launch more in other places.

Re: Yes ...

[badly_knitted]

Those sound great, I do love fossils and stones with fossil imprints.

Yes, I think there should be more. Food forests teach as well as provide.

Re: Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

The front sign says, "This is your food forest. Come in and try the produce. What could grow in YOUR yard?"

That's exactly how I've been using it. Some things I already know that I like, and will nibble if they're ripe, like the raspberries. Others are new. I tried the scarlet goumi berries this summer and was surpremely unimpressed -- they had almost no flavor -- so that's one I don't need to plant. I got the crosne knotroots to grow in pots this year but haven't tasted them yet. They're supposed to resemble water chestnuts, which we like. Some things I haven't seen fruiting yet, like the hardy kiwis and the pawpaw. I've had hardy kiwis before and they're pretty good. I haven't gotten to try pawpaws yet. I've been trying to grow them for years. This summer my two seedlings survived, so hopefully they'll leaf out in spring.

Re: Yes ...

[badly_knitted]

That's so great!

It's good to try new things and then if they appeal, try growing them yourself. I hope your pawpaws will be a success!