Check-In Post - Oct 26th 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

[badly_knitted]

Another day of the cold, and another day of not crafting. Still struggling with my second spook_me fic, but I've got this far and I want to finish it. I can't leave my characters hanging in danger.

[darkcedars]

You certainly can't! ;)

continued finger crossing for the cold to go away.

[badly_knitted]

They need to save themselves, so they'd better get on with telling me how they're gonna do it.

Thanks. It has already far outstayed its welcome. It's been 9 or 10 days already.

[wiseheart]

You can do it! Give those characters grief!

[badly_knitted]

I'm trying to SAVE my characters from grief, although one of them is going to have a tough time with this, and I'm not talking about the monster.

[spiralicious]

That cold is really lingering. I hope it releases you from it's clutches soon. Good luck with finishing your fic.

[badly_knitted]

Thanks, I really need it gone before Halloween because setting up and taking down is a huge physical effort, and I can't do much in advance because the garage door won't close when everything is rigged. The poles are too tall and catch on the up and over door.

I really need luck for the fic. I've got my character into position, more or less, to deal with the cyborg, but I hate putting him through this...

[yarnofariadne]

I hope you feel better soon!

[badly_knitted]

Thank you. It's been more than a week, and Halloween is only a few days away...

[darkcedars]

Another wet day. Not as cold as I feared. The good part is I caught up more chores (cleaned up the garage, picked up the yard).

Worked a bit on the trivet and will probably pick it up again after supper.

[badly_knitted]

Wet weather isn't so bad if it's not too cold.

Well done catching up on chores, and on the trivet progress!

[darkcedars]

I was surprised, no wind so that helps a lot.

[badly_knitted]

I love the wind - in decent weather - but it can make everywhere feel even colder in low temperatures.

[wiseheart]

You certainly don't have a moment left to get bored. Impressive.

[darkcedars]

This time of the year I'm always worried about cleaning up as much as possible before it gets cold.

[spiralicious]

Well done!

[yarnofariadne]

Catching up on chores is such an achievement, well done!

[wiseheart]

I made some pretty labels for my ginger syrup and spicy vinegar bottles. Small steps, but they needed to be done.

[darkcedars]

Those sound really nice!

[badly_knitted]

Excellent! That's another step forwards.

[spiralicious]

Excellent!

[yarnofariadne]

Ooh sounds lovely!

[yarnofariadne]

6 more rows on the blanket, bringing the total to 48!

[badly_knitted]

Well done! Keep plugging away and you'll get there!

[spiralicious]

Very nice progress!

[althea_valara]

Update on the cardigans: there is no update. The crochet one is still in timeout while I ponder what to do with it (and I just haven't been able to face ripping out hours of work, yet) while the knitting one saw maybe two rows before I got tired of the yarns twisting. Why'd I decide to do intarsia? Okay okay it's going to look COOL but it is such a pain dealing with three balls of yarn.

I'm 9 rounds away from finishing a legwarmer. I thought I'd finish it tonight but I've developed a headache (sinuses, I think) so I'll probably take an allergy pill with my night meds and go to bed soon.

Meanwhile: I'm going to a chamber ensemble concert next month, and I am being ridiculous about it. I've already bought a new dress for it, but the dress needs SOMETHING, and so I thought, "Why not knit a scarf to go with it?" I splurged on a ball of NICE yarn, which is due to arrive tomorrow. I'm pretty sure I'll have enough time to do the scarf before the concert, because work has no work for me right now.

Said dress is going to leave my legs partially bare. I could wear the legwarmers that are almost done, but the dress is emerald green and the legwarmers are fire engine red, and I do NOT want to look like an inverted Christmas tree. Scarf comes first, but if time allows, I might do another pair of legwarmers in white yarn. Yes, I know: I am ridiculous.

[spiralicious]

Hope you feel better. Good luck with your concert dress accessories!

[badly_knitted]

So sorry both your cardigans are being a pain. Hopefully you will at least be able to get the intarsia one done once you can face dealing with three colours again.

Good luck with the leg warmers and the scarf, and I hope you'll enjoy the concert.

[spiralicious]

I am still settling back in to being home again so the only crafting was more detangling of Steve 2.0, which I'm actually near done with.

Friday, I had I whirlwind out of town trip with a friend to see her favorite podcast perform live and we came back Saturday morning. It was a lot of fun. We also went to a Bigfoot themed tourist trap and enjoyed the spooky woods while we were down there.

Saturday, almost immediately after I got home, I was whisked off to spend the rest of day with visiting family. That was also good, but made for a very exhausting day.

Tomorrow, I go make cards with Lynne, though I have not prepared my bag yet. The night before I left, she called me and it left me a bit concerned, but while I was gone my mother took it upon herself to take Lynne some snack trays and spend some time chatting with her. It was very sweet of her.

[badly_knitted]

Yay for the detangling almost being done! This bit anyway. Hopefully you'll be able to finish the scarf.

Your trip sounds like it was fun.

Yay for your mum looking in on Lynne. And good luck for the cardmaking!

[spiralicious]

Thanks!

Lynne is still singing my mother's praises over it :)

[yarnofariadne]

It sounds like you had an exciting weekend! Best of luck with the cards.

[spiralicious]

Thanks!

[malurette]

Knitting seems to be stuck on hold.
I took a scratchy tag out of a t-shirt and re-sewed the seam I had to rip to do so.

And after a quick measuring I'd say the Sushi Scarf I made for a friend this month is six freaking meters long. Yep that's longer than Fourht Doctor's Scarf and a bit impractical.

[badly_knitted]

Scratchy tags are the worst! Well done.

That's LOOOOOOONG! Awesome!