Haha! The Tuesday Morning in Missoula closed within the first few months after we moved here, late in 2012, so I never got to really take advantage/abuse it. I was always jealous of the crafty scores I saw from TM, but nearly every time I had gone to one when I traveled there were no craft supplies for me.
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Just some of the shoe/photo box notion storage. I had some of these already in use, and just added more. No new purchases!
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these are far more attractive than my sewing room shoeboxes. 
I taught my child how to crochet more than just a chain & sheās been making eyeballs & tiny holiday ornaments using up the tiny fabric scraps that are too small/worn/annoying to sew with for stuffing.
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Great idea teaching someone else to use up bits and bobs!
I bought these boxes ages ago after they were all the rage and on big discount. Would love some more, but I will probably just cover some shoe boxes with contact paper or wrapping paperā¦or not.
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I use those same boxes. I think they were originally intended to store photos. I was using them to store WIP projects, but as I started completing WIPS, I now have about six of them empty!
I recently turned one into storing spices and supplies for baking. I do so little of that and did not want to give kitchen cabinet space to them. I store the entire box in a hall closet where I also store other baking things like cookie cutters, cooling racks, etc. Easily accessible and organized but not in the way.
@Trillian I seem to respond well to destashing one particular supply. I find that I get in a groove and then want to make everything I can with the one thing. I recently destashed a thrifted wool sweater by making everything I could think of with that one thing. I could probably spend hours destashing a whole lot of various scraps: paper, fabric, thread, etc. I like your idea a lot!
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We took a bunch of stuff to the creative reuse place and goodwill last week. I have such a hard time parting with art supplies even if I know I wonāt use/donāt like using them so this was huge for me. Itās so nice to have a little breathing space in my studio. And the woman at the creative reuse place was very happy about my donation 
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I made 15 crocheted baskets one year to get rid of random yarn. They were so popular I had to scrounge yarn from donations and thrift shops. Now I am back to too much random yarn. Still making baskets though. They are popular at our curch holiday fair.
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We have to be careful that our destashing doesnāt turn into ending up getting more stuff to make. It can be a sneaky outcome! 
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I destashed a few things last week to a girl at the church holiday fair! Sheās a girl with Downās Syndrome and she is raising money for charity by selling her handmade items. I happened to have a few things in my stash that she clearly used (diamond painting cards). She was very happy with them and I was very glad to get rid of them! I was gifted a couple of diamond painting card kits by a friend over the years and itās just not my thing at all. I didnāt throw them away because I felt a bit guilty, they looked like they were quite expensive.
I got a serger, so I have acquired quite a lot of stash recently (the serger, serger feet, serger thread on cones, multiples too, a box for thread cones ) but I have also picked all my knit scraps out of my stash to try the machine. The smaller scraps are great for fiddling with different stitches and settings and I hope to sew a few quick camiās or something from the bigger scraps. I hate knit scraps so I hope to get rid of all of them. Theyāre far less versatile than cotton or denim scraps.
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4 more hats completed. And I have one more on my needles that Iām hoping to squeeze in before the year end:
341 grams used. Not sure of yardage because some of yarn was not labeled.
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Finished the last one that was on my needles just in time to count for 2025.
84 grams / 163 yards used.
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A little bit late but the 2026 DeStash-Along has been posted here.
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This belongs in 2025 but I just finally rearranged & opened all the bins. These 2 large ones are ALL the fabric stash I currently have, not including scraps in 6 of the canvas hanging baskets in the background. Quite a bit of the fabric is designated for projects too, and whatās not is stuff that came to me & isnāt precious so I may not even keep it.
Wow. Wow. My non-sewing sister has 10 times more fabric than me! Itās stored in my basement though so Iām still hoard adjacent 
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Is possession 9/10th of the law hoard?
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But seriouslyā¦ only 2 totes of fabric!? Impressive.
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My crafting focus is in transition so I really should go through my fabric stash and do some purging. But with Joannās gone Iām scared to let things go. (This way madness lies, but here we are)
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That fear is valid! Itās a lot harder now to acquire good fabric in person for a lot of people now that Joannās is gone.
I continue to work on destashing my yarn into projects Though Iām very close to giving some pink yarn away as itās not my color, and Iām having a hard time finding uses for it otherwise. That being saidā¦.I did get some christmas yarn money and have bought some more yarn for future sweaters haha. But of the 2 types of yarn, 1 at least has a plan for it (presuming the yarn works outā¦)
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Iām working on my yearly craft stats and need a place to dump them, so here goes!
Sewing: I made 60 (tiny) doll dresses, using up approximately 2.25 yards of fabric (of which 4-ish prints were used up). This also accounted for two spools of thread, two sheets of 24-count snaps, and a spool of ribbon.
Stationery: I didnāt do much on this front, but still used up three journals, 5 rolls of washi tape, 4 vinyl stickers, 10 sticker packs, 21 stickii club sticker sheets, 13 mini sheets, and 5 sheets of random stickers. Writing implement wise I used up two ink samples, 8 refill cartridges, and 4 miscellaneous pens & fine liners.
Knitting/Crochet: I didnāt make much and only one project was from stash I had on hand at the beginning of 2025, and it was a one skein project to boot.
Paper Products: My main focus of the year was bookbinding and I made 45 in various sizes. Between that and a few protest signs I used up 25 sheets of regular scrapbook paper, 45 sheets of decorative 12x12 cardstock, 10 sheets of solid 12x12 cardstock, 17 8.5x11 solid cardstock pages, and a mini 6x6 scrapbook pad. I never did figure out a good metric for measuring book cloth or boards.
All these stats are mostly for navel gazing but I do find it helpful to keep track of how much I use in a year. It provides a bit of perspective when the itch to acquire new supplies strikes. For instance, even crafting at a (for me) breakneck pace this last year I only used up the equivalent of one scrapbook paper pad, and I definitely added a lot more than one of those to my stash during that same time period.
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This is an eye-opening perspective of suppies vs. ability to use suppliesā¦
I track fabric and yarn only by if there is room in the bins I use to store them inā¦and so far, they all still seem pretty full!
I plan of reassessing my stash the remainder of January in my quest to purge supplies that I no longer and interested in pursuing or fabrics that have languished at the bottom of the bins for decades!
My supply of denim and linen will be tamed 2026!
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