2025 DeStash-Along

I still have it, but that’s intended for the back panel of my Kallax. Maybe I’ll have leftovers :thinking: I had originally planned to modpodge napkins on to them, but I haven’t found the right napkins yet. I haven’t done napkin art since the 90s. Homemade decoupage roof tile name plates for your house were a big trend back then, everyone’s mother did decoupage. Like this: https://nl.pinterest.com/pin/537265430524456081/

I still have a little decoupaged desk storage thiny on my desk from way back when.

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Really? I’ve never heard this before. Do you mean thick acrylic can be thinned with water? Or maybe you mean you can use water to remove dried acrylic paint? Water is basically a solvent for acrylics so I’m intrigued. :slight_smile:

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One of many videos that explain how.

I have only added water. If the paint is too dry, it will not turn creamy but you will get a thin lighter paint. I’ve even done it with my tube paints using a syringe or eye dropper. I don’t use craft paints for my “good” paintings, but for mixed media or gelli printing, they work fine.

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Oh cool! I have a small bottle of a matte acrylic paint that’s really chunky and a bit dried out, I’m going to have to try it!

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I tried the lilac paint today and it was totally fine! I painted just one, skipped the gesso because I couldn’t find it, and it looks fine. I have self-adhesive felt that I will stick to the bottom so they won’t damage my new bookcase. I went to (our equivalent of) the dollar store and I bought like ten packs of self-adhesive felt, everything in my new room will have felt underneath.

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I have about 14 inches of the yellow/orange ribbon yarn left, but I consider it a major destash since I started with about 4 small skeins of it!

I managed to get three new pumpkins. They have some yellow in them, so I guess I inadvertently followed this month’s theme as well!

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I made 5 scrubby wash cloths with 256 grams (236 yards) of this scrubby yarn from the large bin that my MIL gave me. I’m going to follow the color prompts each month to help me use it up and make a stash of wash cloths to gift to the assisted living residents in our area. These are the same places I take my hats that I make throughout the year. As you can see, my skills at crochet are in need of honing. I tried knitting this yarn first, but it was very difficult. So, crochet it is. By the end of the year, I hope they are less wonky looking. :woozy_face:

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Those would be appreciated even if they are wonky (which I don’t think that is an issue for cloths!).

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Thanks so much! I was trying to figure out what to do with this type of yarn, and I thought, why don’t I continue doing what she was doing with it before she decided she was bored of making them. She orders her yarn online and buys SO MUCH at one time, so she gave me a huge bin of cotton and cotton blend skeins.

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More washcloths! I was practicing different knitting patterns. These are from 100% cotton, so I’m calling them make up remover washcloths. I’ll keep one for myself and take the rest up to my MIL’s place. She lives in a senior independent living community. She and all her lady friends wear makeup everyday (must be a generational thing).

I used 103 grams / 239 yards of yarn from stash. This was actually mine from several years ago, so it needed to be used.

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Washcloths are the perfect project to practice new knitting and crochet stitches!

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A friend and I went to a collage night, very fun & she accepted my donation of papers & a whole box of stamps I’ve collected off of mail. I will never use that stuff, happy to see it appear on some of the evenings work.

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These are so cute :blush:

One of the women in my former knitting group used various knitting patterns to make “washcloths” and then connected them all with sashing to make a gorgeous sampler blanket! It reminded me of your cloths!

Anyway, continuing to destash yarn…I believe this might be the last of my “baby” yarn!

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That baby top is so cute.

Yes, I thought about doing a sampler from multiple washcloths, but they ending up all different sizes :grimacing:.

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The woman who made the blanket treated the pieces like quilt blocks and connected them all together with a solid “sashing” . She had all different sizes.

I am trying to learn all sorts of different stitches and techniques in both knitting and crocheting so I might do sampler pieces and see if I can cobble together a blanket!

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Last night I finished 6 placemats from fat quarters. I found out today that they’re slightly big, not sure if I can be bothered to make them smaller. I used up 12 fat quarters - 4 different fabrics, 3 FQ’s of each.

Today I also finished a messenger bag made from curtain scraps that had been in my stash for 8 or so years, plus some unbleached cotton and a zipper. I only purchased the strap for the bag.

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Such pretty fabrics! Using the good stuff made for some really great projects.

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Love bags made from sturdy fabrics…pretty as well.

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I finally got my craft cabinet from amazon. It’s huge, but still not enough to hold all of my stuff. I have no idea how I accumulated all of this over the years, but I am overwhelmed. My New Year’s resolution was to use all my supplies, but this is too much. Never thought I would say that, but it is. Maybe I should re-open my etsy and make some of my money back from selling it. Some of it has not been touched in over 5 years.

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