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?


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]

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.

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!

[badly_knitted]

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