This was a totally for fun, no rules, fooling around, whatever-happens-happens, 100% made from stash, project! And it has yellow!
Just north of where I live is the Skagit Valley. Along with being a hugely important area in West Coast bird migration, it’s also home to many, many bulb farms. It’s famous for the tulip festival every spring, but I actually appreciate the earlier daffodils even more. Just beyond the daffodils, when you stand with your back to Puget Sound, are the foothills of Cascade Mountain range. It is a photographer’s paradise - mountains, incredible skies, birds of all kinds - including flocks of thousands & thousands of huge Trumpeter & Tundra Swans.
So I started thinking about doing a mixed media version of one of my photos, and photos from local photographers I liked. I stitched everything together, no glue etc.
Everything is from stash! The background/stormy sky is dark blue tulle. The mountains/foothills are denim bits i was using to make a quilt. The daffodil rows and green leaves are felt, leftover from swap projects. The birds are from scrap paper from a used up sketch pad. The Moon you see in some photos is my needle-minder, and is not part of the project! Lol
HELLO DE-STASHERS! May prompts are herrrrrrre! Also listed in the second post in this topic. WOO!
May
Color: Pink
Pattern: Ombre/Fades
For: Transitions
Challenge: Think literal, metaphorical, and even metaphysical transitions. Doors, porches, & balconies, hallways, foyers, porticoes, etc. Cars, trains, buses, bikes, skates, your own two feet. New class, new job, new house, new role. New life phases or outlooks even. Also, the old versions of all of those things.
Last day of sign ups for the make a pouch & fill it swap! It’s going to be a terrific stash buster for me, I have so much rando goodness I’m inspired to use for this!
I love all these projects! Working from my fabric stash is so much fun, but I have been neglecting it lately. You guys are inspiring me to dive back in!
I managed a couple of stashy projects lately. The mirror for this as well as the various spray paints used in distressing came from stash. I suppose the book covers might be considered stash, too
The flower sack towels and two of the four HTV for these towels were stash.
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(Linda -2024 Choose Projects that You Want to Do :us:)
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Those are great, even though you had to buy more to make the one…ha ha ha…at least you used up some stash!
I am only working from stash, mostly sewing projects. I hope to get to the point this year where I am only buying for a current project…yeah…one can dream, right?
I am finding myself being more easily able to stick to this policy for fabric and paper lately. I can’t commit to 100%, but I keep catching myself before the actual purchase!
OMG. Right? I do look most of the time! BUT I have been good at refusing lately. Mostly.
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I have also been able to stop myself short of purchasing…especially online…I look and sometimes even fill my cart, but then I wait a day or two…and usually, by then, I find something else I am interested in…I am trying to control my impulse buying, which is a product of my mental state of boredom…
