Check-In Post - Jan 4th 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?


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[badly_knitted]

It was a bit of a struggle, I dropped stitches a few times — I'm blaming the cold weather — but I got the next 6 small bee bodies knitted, and 3 more of the larger bees.

[wiseheart]

Are your fingers getting stiff when it's cold?
Still, good progress!

[badly_knitted]

Mostly I can't feel them when they're cold so I get clumsy. Once they warm up it's fine, and knitting helps to get them warm, but until then I have trouble gripping the thin needles and thinner yarn.

[spiralicious]

The bee saga continues!

[badly_knitted]

I need to stock up so I'll have some free time for other things =/

[wiseheart]

I managed to do a bit of crafting again. Not much: I just cut out the parts for the washing machines for the dollhouse quiet book. They're supposed to look like this one, only with silver front doors instead of grey ones.

[badly_knitted]

Well done. Every little bit helps! Cutting out is an important part of the process.

[spiralicious]

Cutting things out is a very important step.

[alexcat]

I'd like to get a lot of my WIPs done and use a lot of my yarn stash up.

[badly_knitted]

That sounds like a sensible goal! Good luck with it.

[spiralicious]

Good luck with your goals!

[alexcat]

Thanks.

[monksandbones]

Alas, I'm heading back to work tomorrow after a week and a half off, and that's really going to interfere with my knitting time. But I'm knitting the toe of the second of a pair of top-down socks and hope to finish it and cast on my next pair of socks tonight. Plus, if all goes well, maybe I'll finally get it together to sew the buttons on a baby sweater I'm making for my cousin's baby, after which I can declare it done!

I haven't fully decided on my 2026 knitting goals yet, but I resurrected an ancient knitting year-in-review meme that I made in 2018, to review my 2025 knitting. The post is here!

[badly_knitted]

Fingers crossed that you can get your sock finished and start the next pair! Good luck on finishing the baby sweater.

There's still time to decide on goals, if you want to!

[monksandbones]

All that's left is sewing in the ends, but I've cheated and already started the next sock. Shh, don't tell the unfinished socks!

I'm sure I'm going to arrive at some goals that aren't "KNIT ALL THE THINGS" soon, but I'm not quite there yet...

[badly_knitted]

My lips are sealed ;)

There are always other goals that pop up. The main thing is to enjoy what you make and not stress if things don't go to plan.

[spiralicious]

Good luck!

[spiralicious]

I am not totally sure what I did today. I know at some point I set up my bullet journal pages for 2026 so they are at least functional, if not decorated, and I worked on my planner.

I knitted 2 rows on the cable blanket and I sort of inventoried the 100% cotton yarn during dvd time. I don't have very much of it, but I have the urge to make bunch of wash cloths, so I wanted to see what I have.

I also caught up on the Snowflake challenge.

One thing I haven't done and should before bed is make sure my bag to see Lynne tomorrow is ready to go. The cognitive speech therapist should be coming back tomorrow while I'm there, so I need to get there a little bit early.

[badly_knitted]

Well done with setting up your journal, and yay for blanket progress! Good luck with the washcloths.

I=Once again, I can't find the time for Snowflake...

I hope everything goes well with Lynne.

[spiralicious]

Thanks!

Sorry.

Thanks

[malurette]

Oh wait, more crafting goals: learn to knit a balaclava, then adapt my top-down circular jumper pattern into a top-down back-and-forth cardigan pattern, and if I can, combine the two turn that into a hoodie?
Also, learn to do a buttonhole!

[badly_knitted]

Ooh, those are excellent goals, I wish you every success with them!

[mrs_sweetpeach]

I added up how many cat beds I managed to crochet during 2025. I had hoped to reach 52 but succeeded in making on 42. That was disappointing, but even more disheartening was learning I finished no knitting projects at all. At some point during Advent the spouse asked for a scarf, but there were two problems with this, one was that he only gave me about 12 hours to knit one and, two, I forgot how to do a cast-on. I eventually got the cast-on (I think I had to watch a video to remind myself how to do it) but I soon realized that I wouldn't be able to finish it in time and frogged the entire thing.

This year's goal is 21 cat beds plus at least two or three knitting projects.

[badly_knitted]

That's disappointing for you, and a shame you couldn't get the scarf done. There's always this year though!

Good luck with your goals. It's a good idea to set smaller ones that will hopefully prove more achievable.
You still got a LOT of cat beds made though, so well done!