A lot of the time when improving we don't need work messages such as "You start to improve the carving knife" and "You improve the carving knife a bit.", we can see that by looking at the damage and imp columns in the open forge window.
At impalongs or community events with many characters nearby being able to turn off everyone else's work messages if we want to see what we're doing and not get lost in a sea of text would be nice.
We already have the useful option to disable work sounds. Please add two options to show or hide 'my work messages' and 'others work messages' from event window. Should be toggleable in game without relogging.