Check-In Post - Jan 1st 2026

[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]

Blame the late post on the World's Strongest Man final =)


I knitted 6 small bee bodies, and 5 larger bee bodies. Also, after midnight, before I went to bed, I crocheted three more pairs of bee wings.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Bees are buzzing to life!

[badly_knitted]

I'm buzzing along with them!

[darkcedars]

After midnight bee production! I was sleeping at midnight but then my neighbors set off fireworks.

[badly_knitted]

I generally stay up because there are usually a lot of fireworks, but this year there weren't. Stayed up anyway, lol!

[spiralicious]

You are doing great!

[badly_knitted]

Thanks! Very happy with progress so far =)

[verdande_mi]

I have not been present here in quite a long time and beyond journaling I have not been very creative. Today however I did pick up the baby blanket I started in the autumn, or was it summer...and let us not talk about the fact that the baby is already here. The blanket will get done.

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Yay for babies (and blankets)!

[verdande_mi]

Yay indeed! She's a bundle of joy :)

[badly_knitted]

Good luck with completing your blanket!

Always good to hear from you!

[verdande_mi]

Thanks!

:) :)

[darkcedars]

Good luck getting it done soon!

[verdande_mi]

Thank you! I don't have that much left, and it's an easy project.

[spiralicious]

That's great. Good luck with finishing.

[verdande_mi]

Thank you :)

Happy New Year!

[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Happy New Year!

I did a simple candle making craft (from a kit) with my sons today for the new year. The wax was like sand. Kit came with containers and wicks and wax-sand.

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[badly_knitted]

They look so beautiful! Well done!

Happy New Year!

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[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you!

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[darkcedars]

That sounds fun. :)

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[stonepicnicking_okapi]

It was! 😁

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[artificialsatellite]

How cute! Those look lovely, and it's always fun to share a craft with family. :)

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[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you! Yes, good quality time with Mom 😁

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[spiralicious]

They came out great! Happy new year.

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[stonepicnicking_okapi]

Thank you very much! Happy New Year!

[darkcedars]

Just working along on the first dog blanket. They are both laying on me while I am working on it.

[spiralicious]

Sounds very cozy

[badly_knitted]

Sounds like they're eager for their blankets!

[spiralicious]

Happy New Year, all

I had such plans for today, but it just ended up being a not great day (my uncle died, and Lynne somehow lost her teeth, like 3 of us could not find them anywhere).

I did, however, get my knitting bag ready for travel as the first meeting of the new fiber arts club is in the morning before I have to be at work. We'll see if I feel up to it then.

[badly_knitted]

That's really not a great start to the year. So sorry for your loss.

I hope Lynne's teeth turn up.

Good luck with the fibre arts club!

Happy New year. Hopefully things will get better from here onwards.

[spiralicious]

It's really not. Thank you.

They ended up being in her pocket. We checked all her other pockets, just not in the clothes she was wearing.

Thanks x2

[badly_knitted]

Ah. Next time you should check there first.

[spiralicious]

Indeed.

Done!

[ysabetwordsmith]

My 2026 goals are here. I like a target-rich environment.

My 2025 review is here. \o/

I have done a massive amount of work posting things in the last couple of days.

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[badly_knitted]

Good luck with your goals! That is.... A LOT!

Well done with last year. You are so organised.

[malurette]

On New Year's Day I finished the yoke! ...and realized when I was separating the sleeves from the torso that I had 20 more stitches than I should, I'd misread the pattern, oops. So I carefully tinked a couple of centimeters and I'll reknit it today.
Also, I found the black yarn ball I'll need for my scarf: it was neatly tucked away in a tote bag with all the other colours for an electrical resistor colour code cheat sheet.
(Ah, good thing I was so mellow on January 1st and took every setback with very good grace.)

[badly_knitted]

Starting the year with calm and patience can only be a good thing! Glad you got the jumper miscalculation sorted, and found your black yarn!