Check-In Post - April 24th 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: Does your crafting change with the seasons, certain crafts at certain times of the year?


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]

Four orange bees completed. The first bag now contains 36 bees! Only got four pale yellow ones to make for this bag. Then 16 bees for each of the other two bags, four in each of four colours.

[wiseheart]

Sounds like lots of honey coming our way next year. *g*

[wiseheart]

I did a tiny bit of crafting: finished mini-scarf #6 and started mini-scarf #7. I know it isn't much, but at least I've arrived at the half-way point, which is very satisfactory.

I've also made B&B (=basil and balsamico) strawberry jam, and it worked beautifully. You can't actually taste the B&B but it gives the jam a wonderfully spicy note, so I'm going to make more next week.

[badly_knitted]

Yay for reaching halfway with the scarves!

The jam sounds yummy. Hope the next batch turns out as good as the first.

[badly_knitted]

I wonder what knitted honey would look like, because that's the only kind you'd get from knitted bees...

today!

[dialecticdreamer]

I finished the square and two triangles on a bus ride today, and started the third square while waiting for the return bus. *G* Theoretically, the next row will be sixteen stitches across at the widest part of THOSE triangles, but I can't guess until after working the rest of row one's triangles.