Check-In Post - April 9th 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]

The last 6 bees have their wings! Now I just need to give them all eyes...

[wiseheart]

Just be careful that they won't escape! *g*

[badly_knitted]

They're safe in two large Ziploc bags.

[althea_valara]

I can practically hear them going "bzzzz bzzzz bzzzz" as they fly around in their bags. But I also imagine it must be a comical sight since they can't see where they're going, plus, ziplocked bag keeping them in. Thanks for the fun mental image, and well done on finishing the wings!

[badly_knitted]

Heee! They're bundles of stripes in different shades of yellow and orange, with either very dark brown or black, so they're colourful too.

Thank you!

[spiralicious]

Yeah, you don't want them bumping into walls.

Well done on getting them all winged!

[badly_knitted]

Thank you! I don't need them flying off and getting lost either, lol!

[wiseheart]

No crafting today, but I made reasonable progress with the little Santa hats yesterday. I also bought a small skein of red, white and green yarn today, of which I'll knit the little scarves for the teddies... I hope my nonexistent knitting skills will be enough for that. *fingers crossed*

[badly_knitted]

Well done with Santa hat progress, and yay for yarn, it sounds ideal! Very Christmassy. You can do it!

[spiralicious]

Well done! My fingers are crossed for you.

[althea_valara]

Thread for the Sunbeam tee arrived! Pic here: https://ravel.me/xnera/c12

Of course I started swatching as soon as I could escape from work. The pattern suggests a 2.25mm hook. With size 10 thread? I went "hell no" and immediately dropped down to a 1.75mm. Did two rows of swatch, don't like it, so I'm going to try dropping down even further to 1.5mm and see how that works. I have even smaller hooks if that still doesn't work, but I'm hoping I won't need them.

[spiralicious]

It's lovely!

Good luck with your swatching.

[badly_knitted]

Gorgeous colour!

Good luck with your swatch!

[spiralicious]

Knitting!

Until yesterday, I was caught up with my 2 rows a day on the cable blanket. I do have a plan for catching up, but I'm not sure if it will be tonight or this weekend.

The yarn chicken period has come and gone. I'd say that I won, because I managed to not have to add on the next ball/skein of yarn on a cable row, but it was close. The digital scale helped a little, but not as much as I'd hoped.

Adding the next ball/skein was mildly hilarious. While I was trying to find the center pull of yarn, the entire center of the skein came out at once, looking like the skein had given birth to a tiny perfectly formed baby skein of yarn. I did manage to find the center pull without unraveling the center and everything pulls fine with no tangles.

It has created a new situation my mother found hilarious the first time she saw it. Because of the size of the blanket and to keep the yarn from tangling and further unraveling, I have to place the yarn very carefully in the blanket, and essentially swaddle it with the blanket it's attached to. It very much looks like I am carrying a bundled up baby when I put the project away for the night and is the right size for a newborn.

I still need to make sure my knitting bag and library bag are ready for fiber group in the morning. Last week's group was smallish, but we also gained 3 new comers, a child on spring break with her grandmother who both crochet and a quilter. I don't think we'll see the kid or her grandmother again until summer break. I'm pretty sure the quilter is going to be a regular though.

[badly_knitted]

You will catch up again, I'm sure!

Glad you won at yarn chicken =)

Aw, baby skein sounds cute! Your blanket sounds like it's giving good entertainment value!

Hope your bags are all ready now. Enjoy fiber group!

[meridian_rose]

I do most of my crafting at the dining table. Big enough space to work on. I have knitted outdoors in summer :)

I recently completed another needle felted sheep bauble and an Easter cross-stitch/needlework card with pics here

[badly_knitted]

It's good to have plenty of space to work.

Sheepie! So cute, well done!