Check-In Post - Dec 24th 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: What are your crafting goals for 2026?


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 5 bee bodies knitted while watching TV, bringing the total to... I have no idea. Somewhere around 40, maybe. I'll have to start making the wings soon...

[darkcedars]

Good luck with the wings.

[althea_valara]

Happy Holidays, everyone!

I'm hard at work on Christmas gifts today, plus an emergency stocking. More details in my public post, here: https://althea-valara.dreamwidth.org/1259695.html

What are your crafting goals for 2026?

FINISH SOME DAMNED GARMENTS FOR MYSELF. I'd like to get the two cardigans done, but I also had a bolero, a summer top, a tee, and a poncho in the works. I had high hopes of finishing at least one of them this year, but the year got away from me, as it often does.

[badly_knitted]

Happy Holidays!

Good luck with the gifts and the emergency stocking!

This year got away from a lot of us, there are whole months that I don't even remember. Let's hope next year with be a better one for all of us, and that you can get some of your WiP garments finished before the end of 2026. *cheers you on*

[darkcedars]

Good luck with the emergency stocking!

[malurette]

I knitted maybe 10 centimeters of scarf on the train then, 10 minutes before arriving at the last stop, I realized that 1) I was one stitch short in one of my stripes so it was narrower than the other three, 2) I was using the wrong ball of black yarn, it's thicker and I don't have a replacement at hand in the usual thickness. Gah.
Well. At least it kept me occupied during the journey and I have... more yarn of different colours... at my parents'? I think..? probably I'll find something else to busy myself with during the holidays and on the return trip and it's a problem for later anyway?
(Also, I got lots of compliments re: my knitted jumper ♥)

[badly_knitted]

Oh no! Still, at least the scarf kept you occupied, even if it isn't going to plan.

Yay for compliments on your jumper!

[darkcedars]

Oh so annoying for your scarf!

[wiseheart]

Have some virtual Christmas cake. My somewhat lopsided Russian Cream Torte might not look very professional, but it is very yummy:



As for 2006, I've got the two dollhouse quiet books to finish that have mutated from birthday gifts to Christmas gifts and now to Easter gifts. *g*

[badly_knitted]

Oh, that looks decadently delicious! Enjoy!

Good luck with finishing them. They will get done eventually.

[darkcedars]

I think it looks great!

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

That looks delicious. The side icing may be a bit patchy, but the top is spectacular.

[darkcedars]

Snowmen aren't all affixed to cards, by enough for tonight.

Also did all the food prep and some cleaning for tomorrow.

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

Today we finished clearing most of the brushpile in the parking lot, just a few big pieces left to break up.

I'm working my way through posting the mountain of stuff sponsored in the Holiday Poetry Sale.

>> What are your crafting goals for 2026? <<

I haven't made my goal list yet, that's a January 1 task. A few thoughts -- I'd like to do something with some of the art yarn I've collected, and I have some plain yarn and crochet hooks so I may give that a try. I still need to put the food-safe finish on the cabinet I got for storing bitters. Maybe put using the mini-glue-gun on the list.

However! I've finished most of the 2026 signup posts for goals_on_dw including the Arts and Crafts Challenges if anyone's looking for inspiration or moral support. So that's good progress.