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Check-In Post - July 17th 2026

badly_knitted: (Get Knitted)
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Friday, July 17th, 2026 06:56 pm

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's on your crafting wish list?


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!



  • Current Mood: tired
  • Current Location: my desk
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badly_knitted: (Ianto Smile)
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Friday, July 17th, 2026 06:00 pm (UTC)
Finished stitching the poppy, including all the backstitch around it, so all that's left is the backstitch on the border.


Also got out in the garden for a bit and cut my way through brambles and other stuff to the bottom of the steps. Next, I need to tackle the overgrown lawn.

wiseheart: (awesome_uhura)
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Friday, July 17th, 2026 07:15 pm (UTC)
Oh, dear, it's the brambles again? Those spawns of Mordor never give up, do they?

badly_knitted: (Pout)
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Friday, July 17th, 2026 08:40 pm (UTC)
I've barely done any gardening this year because I've been dealing with medical stuff, so the whole garden is completely overgrown again. There will at least be lots of blackberries... I had such plans this year *sigh* The only thing that's really going well is writing.

wiseheart: (Default)
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Friday, July 17th, 2026 07:16 pm (UTC)
One more cherry pit pillow completed. Seven more to go. I hoped to do at least another one but I had to mend something for Mum, so fun crafting got postponed.

Oh, and the jam picture, as promised. Click to enlarge.

Edited 2026-07-17 07:29 pm (UTC)

badly_knitted: (B & W 1)
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Friday, July 17th, 2026 08:37 pm (UTC)
Great work! You've been busy!

Repairs might not be fun, but they're important.

Advice?

dialecticdreamer: My work (Default)
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Friday, July 17th, 2026 10:20 pm (UTC)
My brain hates me sometimes. Today's mini-nightmare: I worried that once the afghan is done, the "raw" edges could catch or pull and started trying to figure out how long it would take to knit an I-cord border.

This was not a kindness to me in any sense.

So, practical questions. I want this afghan to survive baby barf and being dragged from the house to the park to the beach... Will a plain knitted edge, JUST the joined squares, be enough? I wanted it to be squashy and warm for a baby or a preschooler, and in colors that won't embarrass a preteen. My brain just will NOT LET GO of this worry about the edge being pulled out of shape badly enough that an average person can't fix it (nor can simple blocking).
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