I used up a bunch of yarn in April! I made hats & blanket squares & added a lot of scraps to my scrappy blanket. 
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Whoa, what am I seeing here? That scrappy blanket of squares is amazeballs! Are you following a pattern or making it up? It is gorgeous!
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Thanks! The pattern is Trip Around The World Throw & it’s made with tunisian crochet (but you can use a regular crochet hook).
Most of my acrylic scraps from the past few years are in it (it was started in 2017):
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OMG ~SWOON! I am in LOVE! 
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I love all the pretty yarny things guys - so bright and happy! That blanket is looking spectacular @jellybean, what a fabulous way to turn scraps into treasure!
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@jellybean that is some nice stash busting you’ve done there! I agree with Magpie, the blanket is really something special! Question about it- are all your yarns the same material? I have been thinking of doing a scrappy blanket kind of like this (remnants from ghosts of projects past) but some of my yarn remnants are unmarked hand-me downs/samples… I’m wondering if washing and wear overtime would be disruptive to the pattern after a while or if that really matters if the yarns are in such small quantities…
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Thanks! Yes, everything in my scrappy blanket is 100% acrylic. I haven’t mixed materials in projects, but I’d mostly worry about any wool shrinking when washed.
You could try doing burn / bleach tests to identify what’s in a mystery yarn.
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May Themes
Color: Pink
Pattern: Letters & Numbers
For: Your yard, garden, window box, etc.
Challenge: Finish the oldest WIP you can find in your stash.
Image: Vintage Threads - pinks and greens by Jamie, on Flickr
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Destash this weekend
The lap quilt…
I have had these charm squares for 6+ years…
it’s obviously not perfect but my piecing is getting better
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At first I thought you were posting a black and white photo…the pop of blue really sets off this quilt…the fabrics are all part of a charms set? Nice!
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@Renstar I absolutely love that blue binding, and the writing and diagrams on the fabrics makes me really happy. I wish I had some yardage like that in my stash.
I’ve done my monthly reckoning for how much stash I used up, and I have to say I’m pretty pleased with the totals.
I made
- two knit squares for my foster kitty
- 30 doll dresses (it was a busy month)
- 14 surgical style masks
- patch for my couch
And I used up
- 2 yards + 30 inches of fabric
- 70 inches of elastic
- 131 inches of ribbon
- ~600 yards of yarn
I have never been more thankful for my stash than I was in the past month. It provided hours of entertainment, and I was finally able to use all sorts of fabric that various great-aunts had put aside for a rainy day. If the current situation doesn’t count for that I don’t know what would.
I’m still gathering pictures together for my monthly creations, but when I do most will be posted in either the 50 Projects Craft-Along, or the Harry Potter Craft-Along.
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Yes it was a Moda one, Modern background - ink.
@Trillian, thank you
I also finished this, just the millions of ends to weave in! And blocking of course.
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From all those little balls you unwound! Turned out really nice! You also picked a good pattern so that hiding the ends would be a bit easier…I struggle with lacy shawls…where does one hide the ends? ha ha
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Beautiful colors. I know it’s almost summer, but it looks like a winter wonderland to me!
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Y’all are masters of the destash! It was so fun to just scroll through the 50+ comments I’ve missed!
Pretty much everything I’ve made in the last 2 months has been all or mostly stash! WOO! This project has some bought-just-for-it-over-the-last-2-years which isn’t exactly stash, a lot of the project was only possible because of my ridiculous and varied craft stash. I mean, having sheets of copper was important to the result! 
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Can’t believe you had those cool dice to use for this! It was meant to be!
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Well, I bought them with something related to this in mind a couple years ago. I’m just glad I figured out a way to incorporate them!
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Another small destash:
It is en route to someone as we speak, the paper was just envelope paper so very raw but another fun project
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I agree with what you said about not ever being more thankful for your stash! Since the pandemic, I have not once said or thought that: “Shoot, I really wish I could get to the craft store because I really need _______!” Just goes to show that perhaps I’m spending money buying things that I don’t really need, and that I am blessed to have way more than enough.
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