Check-In Post - Jan 20th 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]

The last 14 bees of that batch now have eyes. Yay! They're ready for the shop now, hoping to take them tomorrow when I take my car in for its MOT.


I sewed up and stuffed 10 more bees, meaning there are 50 waiting for wings and eyes.


I bit my tongue so hard while eating I made it bleed, so now I'm sulking.

[spiralicious]

No crafting today. The anxiety demons were too fierce.

Yesterday was card making at Lynne's, though I was convinced for awhile we would never get there. The physical therapist, the housekeeper, the handyman, and the cognitive speech therapist were all there. Eventually, things were calm enough that we did make the planned butterfly cards with rhinestones. And next week's cards will once again be butterfly themed, but in a 1970s color palette. Also, Lynne invited the speech therapist to join us in making a craft next week - multimedia collages on stretched burlap. I have no idea if the therapist's agreement was serious or humoring Lynne, or if Lynne will even remember by then, so I designed nothing, but I did make sure that the supplies to do it were on hand just in case. Let's all cross our fingers that they don't move.

[spiralicious]

Hurray they can see! Congrats on getting a batch ready for the shop.

I'm sorry about your tongue. Hopefully it will feel better soon.

[wiseheart]

Oooh, sorry for your owie! Things like that happen to me way too frequently. But yay for the finished bees!

[wiseheart]

*hugs*

[wiseheart]

More craft-less days lately. The chores are eating me alive. Or I am getting old. 🙄

[badly_knitted]

That sounds very chaotic, but you got through it all. Next week, you'll see what's what.

Hope you've managed to vanquish those demons, at least for now.

[badly_knitted]

Or both. For me today, it's both.

[badly_knitted]

I even took them to the shop. It was closed. *sigh*

Thanks, I hope so. It's very sore now.

[badly_knitted]

Same here, but I usually don't make it bleed. *sigh*

Thanks!

[malurette]

Yesterday I added a buttonhole on my green pajama top, displaced the previous top button (round, aqua) to fit into it, and added another button (star shaped, glittery sliver) to fit the hole left without. The new buttonhole is a bit tight but the button still fits through it and I'm sure it won't come undone during the night when the goal was to keep warmer (why do button-down pajamas have such a décolletage when button-down day shirts go all the way to the collar, anyway?)

Meanwhile, the jumper is still going.

[badly_knitted]

Well done on the buttonhole and the jumper progress!

Women's clothes are badly designed, imo, mostly by men. Buttons don't stay fastened, necks are too low, we're supposed to catch pneumonia so guys can see more skin. I gave up on women's wear years ago.