Check-In Post - June 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: What kinds of organizers do you like to hold your arts and crafts supplies?


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I now declare this Check-In OPEN!

Comments

[badly_knitted]

Managed to sew up and stuff 16 bees, so there's just another 12 to sew up. After that, put their wings on, stitch their eyes, and the bee-making might be done for a while. Unless I decide to make a few more of the brooch ones.

[spiralicious]

Excellent work

[badly_knitted]

Thank you!

[nagi_schwarz]

Woohoo! Look at you go! You have made an entire hive!

[badly_knitted]

I know! Now I have to store them until the shop needs re-stocking...

[readera]

Yesterday I cast on the hat and did some of the ribbing. Today I finished the ribbing and worked on the body of the hat some

[badly_knitted]

Woohoo, well done! That's great progress!

[spiralicious]

Well done!

[nagi_schwarz]

Way to go! Excellent progress on the hat.

[spiralicious]

Yesterday with Lynne we made magnets, or they will be when I glue magnets to the back of them. They are bottle caps with spring stickers in the middle and glitter. Lynne also had me take her on a tour of her craft room. She remembers none of it at this point but is impressed with the vastness of it and the fact that she labeled everything. She also discussed getting rid of everything because she never uses it, while we were using it, again. We'll see.

A garage sale has been discussed, but I don't think it's a great idea because it would take weeks to plan and she can't hold on to what's happening that long.

I also knitted 4 rows on the cable blanket.

[badly_knitted]

Oof, that's so hard, for both you and her. So sad to have been a passionate crafter and now to have so little memory of her own things.

Well done with blanket progress!

[nagi_schwarz]

Those magnets sound super cute! Glad you could have fun crafting with a friend. Also way to go on the blanket!

[jasleh]

got a decent chunk of cross stitching in, and feel very happy about it

also, after working with size 20 thread for a couple weeks (however slowly), going back to crocheting with size 10 feels like I'm working with actual yarn lol

[badly_knitted]

Excellent!

Does that mean you're working on the curtain again?

[jasleh]

yup! tho just the motif one so far lol, haven't had a big enough chunk of time to look at the filet crochet one yet

[badly_knitted]

Awesome! You'll get back to the big curtain when you have the time. Meanwhile, you have several projects on the go to switch between.

[jasleh]

yeah, one of the good things about having a lot of WiPs XD

[nagi_schwarz]

Gosh I feel that for reals. Size 20 is so fine and size 10 suddenly feels so chunky. Way to go with the cross stitching!

[nagi_schwarz]

I finished the giant doily for the parasol! I need to steam it flat, and now I am also waiting on jump rings to come in the mail so I can attach the doily to the umbrella frame, which will be a lot of work (but at least I know I have some little jewelry pliers somewhere, from my brief foray into making scale maille back in the day). I am so excited! Gonna work on the tatted swan heart doily in the meantime (once I sew in the ends of the giant parasol doily at any rate).

[badly_knitted]

Woooo, well done! I expect attaching to the parasol will be fiddly work, so slow and steady should do it. Looking forward to seeing the finished result!

Good luck with the swan doily!