Check-In Post - May 29th 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?


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[badly_knitted]

Managed to crochet a dozen pairs of plain wings, so I only have another dozen to go. Then I can start sewing up and stuffing bees.

[ripplestitch]

Wow. Is that a dozen bees left to go or just a dozen wings? Is this for a batch or All The Bees??

[badly_knitted]

A dozen pairs of wings. Then I have 72 bees to sew up, stuff, and complete... That will leave me with a stash of 120 to re-stock the shop when they need them.

[ripplestitch]

I spent a few days just melting in the heatwave.

When I wasn’t doing that, though, I made 4 squares (hexagons) for a small blanket! I have a terrible track record for actually finishing projects bigger than a pair of socks, or, possibly a shawl that I’m very excited about, but I’m hoping that the ability to make a motif when I need something for my hands to do and then tuck it away until I have enough will help me get through it.

🤞

[badly_knitted]

Good luck! I saw the motifs and they're very sweet!

Heatwaves and yarn crafts don't mix well.

[althea_valara]

Started over on Sylvan Tee, and it is not behaving. Mistakes keep happening. I've already ripped out a few rows once, and might have to do it again. Bah. It's put aside again while it thinks about what it did.

I had made some mosaic knitted coasters as a possible class project, but the art director nixed that idea as being too hard, which I can understand. On the way home from hospital today (don't worry, I was just there for an allergy blood test, nothing major), I stopped at Michaels and picked up some more kitchen cotton. This afternoon I started knitting a very simple coaster. Mostly garter, with some stockinette stripes.

Still don't really have much of a desire to craft. I'm mostly doing the new coasters out of obligation, plus a teensy bit of "well, I'll design my own beginner pattern" which means fun of exploration and testing things out. I am not sure I would have started knitting one today had I not decided to go with my own designed pattern, TBH.

[badly_knitted]

How annoying that the tee isn't working out! I hope you can figure out what the problem is.

Good luck with the coaster designs for the knitting class!

Hopefully the crafting mojo will return before too long. You've just had too many things not working out, it's dented your enthusiasm.

Hope the blood test went well.

[fuzzyred]

I knit one row of ribbing for the hat I recently started. That brings me up to seven now, and about half of the required length. :)

[badly_knitted]

Yay! Excellent progress! What colour will your new hat be?

[fuzzyred]

It will be grey with flecks of blue and green. The person who dyed it used a peacock for the colour inspiration.

[badly_knitted]

Oooh, sounds like that will be gorgeous!

[fuzzyred]

Yes, I'm excited to see how it turns out!

[badly_knitted]

I hope there might be a photo once it's finished!