Check-In Post - April 7th 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: Where do you do most of your crafting?


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[badly_knitted]

Ten more bees have their wings (that's all the sparkly-winged ones done) Just six plain-winged bees needing wings, and all 72 needing eyes. I've divided all the winged ones into black stripes and brown stripes (half each colour) so I can give them the right coloured eyes.

[wiseheart]

Such tiny details require a lot of time but make everything look so much better.

[badly_knitted]

I do prefer to get it right. The last batch ALL had black eyes because I forgot =/

[spiralicious]

Excellent work!

[badly_knitted]

Thank you!

The teddy bear factory

[wiseheart]

... is in full gear. All twelve of my mini-teddies - nine brown ones, two white ones and one red one(*) - have their face bases, their eyes and their inner ears. Two of them have their features stitched and thus only need to be sewn together and stuffed. Nine of their little Santa hats are in various stages of being finished; four of them are finished altogether. My cunning plan is to finish all the little details (including the knitted scarves) and then sew the teddies together, one at a time, as the fancy takes me.

(*) Yes, I did make one red teddy as well. The red rabbits can't be the only Bolshies in the household, after all. *g*

Re: The teddy bear factory

[badly_knitted]

Yay! Good luck with your bears, that sounds like a good plan!

Re: The teddy bear factory

[spiralicious]

The teddy bear factory is indeed in full gear! Well done and good luck.

[spiralicious]

To answer this week's question, I think where I craft most often is a three way split; Lynne's dining table, the large meeting room at the local public library, and at home at my little TV tray table while sitting on the couch. When I go to Lynne's, we've pretty much always worked at the dining table, with a few exceptions over the years. Nearly all the crafting events and workshops I take at the library, which there are a minimum of 2 a month, are in the large meeting room. It has an official name related to local nature since the remodel a few years ago, but I can never remember it. Technically, the library has a maker's space, but things are rarely held in there. At home, I don't really have another place to work besides my TV tray table and I do most things from there, not just crafting. It's kind of too small for anything and the blue wood stain on it likes to come off on things if I forget to take precautions, but I make it work.


I hoped to be able to link to pictures online of the Alice in Wonderland dioramas, but the only one I could find was on our library's website's calendar, which was just difficult to link to. I did find the artwork we used though.

My friend who lead the workshop got the graphics from Emma Parrish and used them and resized them for our project with the artist's permission. You can find them on Emma Parrish's etsy page as a kit to make an Alice in Wonderland purse journal.

Sorry for no direct link.

[badly_knitted]

That's a varied selection of places to craft. Lack of space can be annoying. Hope the tray table doesn't leave its mark too often.

Shame you can't show pictures. Ah well, maybe someday you'll find a way. Thanks for the info anyway.