Check-In Post - Jan 5th 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]

6 small bees sewn up, stuffed, and their wings attached.


In a few minutes, I'm going to put a DVD on and knit some more of the larger bees.

[wiseheart]

Your swarm is growing steadily. :)

[badly_knitted]

Thanks! Trying to fill the hive!

[spiralicious]

Hurray for more bees!

[badly_knitted]

I knitted 5 larger ones last night! Wheee!

[spiralicious]

Excellent!

[badly_knitted]

Thanks! Just about to start tonight's knitting now.

[spiralicious]

Happy knitting!

[badly_knitted]

Thanks!

[marinarusalka]

I got swamped over the holidays, and couldn't knit as much as I wanted to, but I did manage to finish the top I'd been working on:



I also started a needle felting project today, from a kit I bought at SoCal Yarn Fest in November. It's supposed to make a pretty little mermaid figurine, which may be way above my needle felting skill set, but I couldn't resist trying it.

[wiseheart]

It looks very pretty!

[badly_knitted]

That's a really pretty top, and I love the colour!

Good luck with your mermaid!

[spiralicious]

Lovely!

Good luck with the mermaid :)

[wiseheart]

I've been working on the little felt washing machines today. The main bodies are put together with the help of double-sided tape and I've started sewing them together. The front doors are also done, I'll just have to make the fastenings for them.

[marinarusalka]

Little felt washing machines sound adorable!

[badly_knitted]

That's great progress on the washing machines! Good luck with the sewing!

[spiralicious]

Well done!

[sister_raphael]

Pic of the pink stone prayer beads... someone said it was very Barbie Thinks About Death from the movie and I'm still giggling!

https://sister-raphael.dreamwidth.org/file/397617.jpg

[sister_raphael]

Darnit, that was supposed to be the thumbnail.

[badly_knitted]

Still perfectly visible!

[badly_knitted]

Totally gorgeous!

[spiralicious]

Awesome!

[spiralicious]

Card making with Lynne today was kinda hard to describe. The making of the unicorn cards themselves went fine, but the rest of the visit was a bit off and she was kinda bitey (metaphorically). I think it was mostly because she had an appointment with the physical therapist (which I was unaware of) and the cognitive speech therapist today, which is a lot in a 4 hour time span.

Tonight, I started knitting a wash cloth, despite the fact that I should work on other things. I think I'm tweaking the pattern before I do another one though. This one is going to end up roughly the size of a small tea towel.

[badly_knitted]

That would be an awful lot for her to deal with. Hardly surprising she was a bit off. At least the card making went well.

Perhaps do the next one half or three quarter size.

[spiralicious]

Yeah. It was not surprising. I tried to let her be as much as I could.

That's kinda what I'm thinking. The pattern will be easy to adjust, I just need to see how big it actually ends up.

[badly_knitted]

Best thing to do really.

The first one can be the prototype.