Hello Everyone, and welcome to the Annual DeStash-Along, a year long thread where we celebrate the joys of our craft stash and share the items we made with materials we had on hand.
Everyone has their own motivation for crafting from stash - to create more space in their home, to save money by crafting with supplies they’ve already purchased, to upcycle or give new life to 2nd hand materials, or just to use all that neat stuff we’ve acquired over the years.
Each month we’ll set a series of challenges meant to inspire you to dive into your supply horde, see what you have, and maybe look at things in a new light. Feel free to ignore or craft along to these themes as the spirit moves you - there are no hard and fast rules here. Just a jumble of supplies we want to play with!
Me too! I have a standing “low/no buy” order going for craft stuff right now I and want to make. sure that I don’t fall into not-crafting mode because of a lack of buying.
I’d like to sell some more of my weaving gear this year. Mainly my 2 workshop looms, ones I’m keeping just because they’re portable and can easily be taken to workshops, so I can get down to my main loom and a couple small specialty looms. By removing some of the clutter of the extra looms around my main loom, I think it will make me more likely to want to weave and be in that space. Right now it’s feeling cramped because I needed to move the smaller looms and second bench up there when I decided to create a dedicated art studio space.
I’d also like to thin out my weaving library by about 25%. I made a good dent in 2024 but still have way too many weaving books, many of which are for topics I tried once and realized I wasn’t interested in.
Art/craft supply wise I’m feeling like I’m at a good level so my goal is to keep any accumulation to a minimum and purpose driven.
I’ll be participating again this year always trying to find creative ways to use my stash instead of buying new. My first FO of 2025 will be a stash project Just chipping away at it.
January Themes Color: White For: You Pattern: Spots Supplies/Tools: Blades or Bling Challenge 1: Finish a 2024 WIP Challenge 2: Do a quick organize/tidy of your workspace Bonus: What are your Stash Related Goals for the coming year?
Woohoo!! I’m joining again this year. I always want to destash.
I tidied my craft room on the 31st, unfortunately, because we had a party last night and I’m back to work tomorrow. I also didn’t finish the last pair of socks from 2024 but it will be my first finish for 2025! I did manage to cut two more washcloths from the scraps of my bathrobe before I started tidying, but I didn’t stitch them up. So that can be my second destash project for 2025.
My stash goal for 2025 is to not have to buy anything for the projects on my to-do list. Aside from a few notions here and there, this is entirely do-able. So, no excuses for me. I am doing a WIP/priority projects bingo card so I can ‘reward’ myself with the occasional crafty purchase when I finish a few projects.
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My destash goals are to really assess what projects I enjoy doing. Things that I go towards most of the time. I am glad to have skills to make things as I need them, ie. a macrame plant hanger, but I don’t LOVE doing macrame.
I think focusing on that will really help me decide what supplies to keep or get as well as what I need to destash. For onetime projects, I can just get the needed supplies and not go overboard. I tend to buy ALL the things when I see something I might just make once.
I am going to start 2025 by listing the WIPS I want to finish and passing on some fabrics that can be put to use by someone else.
My first finish of the year, but I knitted 1,5 socks of this pair in 2024. This was a quick finish, the socks are worsted weight and maybe took 2 hours each. I thought I wouldn’t have enough yarn and had already found a matching grey worsted weight leftover bit of yarn in my stash (without label and inherited from my grandma) but I actually even had some yarn left over.
I slacked off a bit last year, but I am going to join again.
My stash has reduced, as I donated a large amount of unused yarn to our local charity crafter group. As it was encroaching on my “spare” bedroom that my mother-in-law uses, but there is still plenty there.
I struggle with perfectionism, but my motto for the year is “Perfectly imperfect”. So this year, I plan on using the good stuff and starting some of the projects that I have been too scared to start.
Edited to add my little list:
Stashed items that projects have been assigned to:
Sophie Shawl x 2 (Sandnes Garn Alpakka Silke x 12)
Simplicity 8294 x 2 (Lots of frabric)
Knot & Thread duffle bag (Fabric to hand)
Projects from stash:
Labrador pyjamas: 5 x buttons, non-roll elastic, contrast paw fabric & interfacing from stash
I’m debating if I should buy more yarn in order to work up the yarn I bought without a pattern and now can’t seem to find one for the quantities I have. It seems counterproductive, but may allow me to move the current skeins into the completed projects list.
I will overthink this for a few more days…
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(Linda -In the year 2025, I am happy to be alive! :us:)
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I am sort of in the same boat! I have loads of partial skeins that need a unifying color to make a blanket…I need about six skeins…I don’t think it is adding to stash if it helps you use up stash…am I helping or hurting? ha ha ha
always trying to find creative ways to use my stash instead of buying new. My first FO of 2025 will be a stash project 
Just chipping away at it.
