So sorry about your emergency. Hope all is better.
I just plugged along with a long term stash busting project while awaiting the prompts. There are always plenty of WIP’s needing to be completed.
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I am not sure if this is the place to ask, but I figured I would give it a shot. I am looking for four or five 1" or 2.5 cm wool felt balls. Would anyone have any available for trade? Everywhere I find them, they come in a big pack, and I don’t want to add more to my already overflowing stash.
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If you don’t get any hits here you can also try the use it or lose it board:
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This feels like an epic destash! Not for volume, but for duration. I have had this set of 12 plain napkins, purchased to embroider on, for maybe 2 decades. I’m not exactly sure when I bought them, but it could’ve been the early aughts.
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Nice work!! Good to see it go out of your stash and into use.
I finished a cross stitch kit, but at the end I had lots of floss leftover. As in, almost a full skein of some colours. So tonight I’m going to turn on Netflix or something and wrap these threads on to the right bobbins. I guess I’ve destashed by finishing a kit, but at the same time now I’m adding to it? 
At least it’s not taking up any additional space anymore now it’s going into my existing box of bobbins.
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I’ll message you. Thanks!
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Several years ago, a FB friend needed a bit of financial help so I bought several skeins of her hand dyed yarn. The yarn was coarse and itchy, so not suitable for anything that would be against the skin. I had no idea what to do with it…plus, to be honest, the colors were fugly.
Out of boredom and wanting to remove it from my stash, I decided to make some felted bowls. I made a small one, which turned out useful, so I made another. I thought the small ball was all I had left, but NOoooooo…there are three more balls left! UGH! So, guess I am going to work on making one (hopefully) final large basket.
Here are the two so far:
And, again, trying to use up an impulse purchase of yarn that was selling for ultra cheap at Michael’s online, I made a long scarf that I will be donating or gifting since green is not my color. It meets this month’s theme! And, yes, I still have an entire ball left! UGH!
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cough cough
There’s a basket swap on…
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I can’t swap yet until the person who angeled for me receives my package! It should be early next week. I can only do one swap at a time until I get back into good graces, so it will probably be something Halloween related. I am pretty sick of that yarn, so I am probably going to take it to the creative reuse next time I go. No sense making something just because when I don’t enjoy it, right?
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I agree! And it might be perfect for someone else’s plans.
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Finally finished finished this knit pillow cover. The front was finished last year, and sat for long while. Then I finally got a pillow insert for it, but that ended up being bigger than I planned so it sat some more. I finally finished cobbling together the back, which is a mish-mash of leftover yarn. It’s definitely not a perfect fit for the form, but I’m past caring now. It’s wonky but cute.
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It just occured to me that my 95% stash backpack belongs here. Thanks to my stash, zippers that come in two purchased to repair puffy vests, impulse and sale grabs, and other peoples donated stash. A well stocked (overstocked?) craftroom can be fun.
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All of that is from stash??! That’s amazing. Not only does it look really cool and functional, I can’t believe you also had all of these matching supplies in your stash.
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Amazing! Your stash of stuff really came in handy for this one! It looks great and so functional!
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Thank you, @Immaculata and @AIMR. You should have seen the pile of fabric, straps, and zippers on the floor. I pulled out anything I thought might work…and then pulled out more. The rainbow shoelaces were a lucky find, they were hanging on a corkboard right in front of my sewing machine. I seldom even glance at the board and it has all these interesting bits and bobs pinned up.
Then I slowly eliminated things from the pile and put them away. It was like a collage painting, I just kept auditioning parts until I was happy.
The patch, on the other hand, was a must from the start. Thank you @craftADDchick .
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Wow–like a scavenger hunt in your own stash! Isn’t it a great feeling when something pulls together from things you have collected and are now finally able to use? It is why we hoard…I mean, stash!
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A true testimony to the super power of the stash working for good!
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SO cute - love it!!
Fabulous backpack @marionberries!
I have been utterly obsessed with drawing for the last I-don’t-know-how-many weeks, so all my other destashing projects and WIPs are just sitting untouched. I’m enjoying admiring everyone else’s creativity though!
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I realized I hadn’t posted a project here since May. Mostly I’ve been on a bookbinding kick, which really doesn’t use up much stash - just a few sheets of paper per book. But it’s still nice to use supplies I’ve had for a while.
I bought the paper pad these covers came from back in about 2011 and I still have most of the sheets.
Two palm sized copies of Wind in the Willows. I salvaged the bookcloth for the spine back in grad school and got the hand-marbled paper as a Christmas gift at least 10 years ago.
A set of two regular hardback sized books. I bought the paper pack I used for the covers from the Dollar Tree back in the early 00s and the endpapers are from a pack I picked up from the sale rack back in about 2014. I don’t have much double sided patterned cardstock in my stash so I’d been saving it for special projects for ages.
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