back to the bench by pomo mama, on Flickr
Color: Metallic
For: Gifts
Pattern: Plaid
Supplies: Stuffing & Sticky Stuff
Challenge 1: Put the finishing touches on a WIP
Challenge 2: Take a look at your stash as it currently stands. Maybe even look back at any DeStash Goals you made at the beginning of 2025. Then see what you feel like crafting that will help you end the year on a high note.
Another scrappy hat using leftovers from hats earlier this year. Used up the two main ones you see, plus some bits and bobs of others in the pompon.
I’ve been going to town on my Christmas Fabric Stash. My goal is to use up at least one more Fat Quarter by the end of the season, which is more challenging than you’d think given how small these dresses are. This sewing session finished off the light blue snowflakes in the bottom pic, as well as the pink mistletoe print.
And I made another set of books. So that’s a scrap of bookcloth, two lightweight sheets of patterned paper, and four pieces of double sided cardstock out of stash. 0.0000001% down and miles to go before I make a noticeable dent in that side of my supplies.
Both are so nice!! I hope you don’t mind me asking, but what do you do with your crafts when they’re finished? You seem to make a lot of repeat items, like tiny doll dresses and notebooks. Do you sell them?
As enjoyable as I find making the same thing repeatedly with slight variations in materials, there is a method in my madness.
I have an etsy shop which is where all the doll dresses go, although I’m trying to taper that off.
The books are actually fanfiction and public domain works that I’ve formatted, printed, and bound. In cases where I’ve made two of the same, one is going to the author while the other is for my shelf. There’s no way I could use that many sketchbooks or journals, and I’m too picky about the quality of my writing paper anyway!
That makes sense!! So your books aren’t just very fancy notebooks, but handbound, custom books. I bet the authors are thrilled to own a one of a kind luxury edition of their own work.
Yay! Two more hats using only stash:
I love the purple toned one!
Thanks, I really liked how the colors looked together. These are all stash scraps from hats made earlier in the year.
I just destashed a bag of flannel scraps for donation blocks. Yay!
The wonders of stash! Then you need realize you need a creative way to wrap some tiny presents at 11:00pm you can whip up some mini gift bags.
They look so good, that paper is wonderful!
Another 2 hats for Charity, another 165 grams / 433 yards of yarn and sparkly thread destashed. The sparkly thread unfortunately will not photograph well, but it’s there. Now it’s all gone ( yay).
Yay. Love it when a stash is gone, and in such a pretty way.
I washed the recliner covers today and noticed that the thingys that hold down the covers needed help. The elastic was exhausted; one spongy thing (round tubes that were supposed to tuck under the cushions) was gone, and two were half-eaten. Crazy cat action! The elastic around the back piece was also limp. The covers are more for protection from the humans; the cats have found ways around any barriers I create.
I had recently organized my notions drawers and put all the elastic in a shoe box. And there was everything I needed—even some wide black elastic. Stash can be so surprising. I found some black plastic pipe in the basement. Let’s see how long the cat chews on that! the hardware was all reused.
Success!
Yes, I like finishing up categories of things too. Especially things I purchased just because they looked interesting and were on clearance. That was the case with the sparkly thread. At the time, I had not learned that novelty yarn and thread were often a challenge to knit into something usable. So, now I’m sitting on several kinds of novelty products. (Thanks for the temptation, Tuesday Morning). Each time I use one up, I do a little victory dance in my mind.
I like your idea of the shoe boxes for notions. I have several empty clear ones that I could do that with. My sewing notions are all in a big box. Every time I need something specific, I have to dig through it.
I’m kind of thinking next year for the DeStash-Along it might be interesting to have a monthly “Stash Down” supply where you choose a particular supply at the start of the month/quarter/year (skein(s) of yarn, cloth, box of ???, etc.) to see if you can up by the end of the time frame. Kind of like a Project Pan but for craft supplies. Does that sound interesting? Any input on how to make it interesting or more successful for the craft-along thread would be welcome.
Definitely appeals to me.
That sounds interesting. I know there are a few -alongs doing bingo cards, maybe something like that? Wouldn’t need prizes, just “bragging rights” I should think.
One of the very, very few upsides to JoAnn vanishing is that I now have very limited opportunities for succumbing to this particular urge.
As much as I miss Tuesday Morning, the closing has saved me from myself.
