Check-In Post - May 23rd 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 do you wish you could get right first time, every time?


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]

Feeling crap, so most of the day has been spent reading.

[elwendell]

Reading is a good project.

[badly_knitted]

Yep. I finished one book and started another.

[jasleh]

hope you'll start feeling better soon :(

[badly_knitted]

Thanks. I do not like these antibiotics.

[elwendell]

My jacket project is going well so far. I have all the bodice pieces joined together. Addin in the sleeves is next, but I'm waiting for another day to do that. I like to come to jobs like sleeve heads when I'm fresh.

[badly_knitted]

Sounds like a sensible approach. Good luck with the next step!

[jasleh]

more cross stitching, have reached Counting(Savage) and I'm praying I got the spacing right for all the big gaps lol

I do count them like... 4 or 5 times each, so it SHOULD be right

I am, admittedly, doing this to myself with my insistence on doing all of one color at a time

[badly_knitted]

Good luck! Counting several times usually works.

One colour at a time works for some people.

[jasleh]

it's certainly my preferred method, but some of the early colors can be Rough with counting lol