Ouch! 
I inherently an enormous stash of yarn, all 100% natural fibre, wool & merino. Unfortunately it smells of cigarette smoke. I ran a few dry balls through a hot dryer cycle in mesh bags but no luck.
You can do it!!
Seal up the yarn in a bag and put in some slices of bread until they dry out and absorb the smell. You can also try fish tank charcoal. That is too much yarn to work with when the smell is unpleasant! You can always wash it after the project is done, but yuck doing it!
I have heard of people who washed the whole ball of yarn - put the balls of yarn in the legs of pantyhose, knot in between the balls so they don’t move. It sounds a bit risky but if the yarn stays put, the smell is probably gone.
I don’t think you’re the kind of person who’d use strong artificial smells, but laundry perfume pearls or dryer sheets would help mask the smell.
The last option is patience. My grandfather smoked hand-rolled cigarettes indoors. Everything in that house smelled, including the yarn. He passed in 2006, after that no one smoked in that house and the smell slowly disappeared. My grandma passed 5 years ago and I inherited her supplies. I don’t smell any smoke in her yarn now. But I suppose you don’t want to wait 20 years.
This barely counts as a thing, but as I now bake most of our bread, I thought I’d make a bread bag. This bag from a scrap of unbleached cotton cost me all of 5 minutes to cut and sew:
I leave stinky items outside overnight when it’s going to be cold and damp. Some items take more than one night session, but I find it helps a lot. I don’t pretend to know the science behind it.
They’ve been on the porch for at least 2 months now. I’m gonna have to endure the odour to salvage all that lovely fiber.
Yikes! 
That is bad.
I finished a quilt top that had been a WIP for about 6 months (that’s not UFO territory, right? For a quilt that’s pretty fast for me). Halloween quilt top
I emptied two bobbins today while piecing. I haven’t finished the quilt yet, but I will pull the backing from my stash, and I think there’s enough batting in stash too (I will need to piece together several scraps). I haven’t decided about the binding but I’ve got several options in stash.
First photographed project of the year complete! A half-letter full cloth binding with HTV embellishments.
That’s gorgeous! So stylish.
It looks very fancy! Is it difficult to do?
I picked a simple top from a Burda Easy magazine and cut it tonight from a small piece of knit fabric that was still in my stash. The fabric is fun and came from the €1 surprise bin in the fabric store (you get a bag with at least 1 meter of a surprise fabric in it). I love those surprise deals and this fabric was fun, but it’s a dumb thing to buy them, typically these things end up in stash. I don’t really like working with knit fabrics either. But it’s a simple pattern so hopefully some time later this week I’ll have a fun top for summer.
No harder than any other craft, in that it takes a little practice. The cover decoration is HTV so the hardest part is making sure the iron is at the right temperature.
I’m so impressed with your book-making, it just looks so beautiful and precise!
I’ve been clearing out the leftover clothes from the closet remake and couldn’t part with this old, too small vest. Now it’s a small pillow.
This is brilliant!! The fabric is perfect for a throw pillow, the vest is very special so I absolutely understand it would be difficult to just throw it out. Now you can enjoy it again!
I cleared out my work bag today (long overdue…) and I’ve figured out I need a few more zipper pouches, larger ones preferably. So I hope to find everything I need in my stash and sew a couple this weekend. At my workplace, we have a super strict clean desk policy, and they’ve physically removed our desk drawers. Which means we now have to carry stuff around that we previously kept at work, we’ve got a tiny locker but it barely fits our work necessities, let alone personal items.
I want a pouch for my pens and also a pouch for all the beauty related stuff in my bag. Things like spare hair elastics, a brush, lip balm, small can of deodorant. We used to have an over the door organizer in the women’s bathroom where every woman had their own pocket, but that has been banned as well.
I’m actually so annoyed by that last decision that I’m thinking of sending an e-mail to our building manager to try and convince him to put it back. According to him (of course he’s male) it’s not necessary to have an organizer in the bathroom, because we can keep necessities in our lockers. But aside from the fact our lockers are tiny, we all know what that organizer is used for - mostly menstrual products. I know people should be able to carry menstrual products out in the open without shame, it’s a normal bodily function, but we also all know not everyone is comfortable with that. I am just so annoyed that some old guy gets to decide what our needs are.
This was a very simple and quick destash project I did around New Year’s Eve. So it doesn’t technically count as a 2025 destash, but I thought I’d share it in the new thread.
I had a remnant of a fabric I really love, and a need for something to stop my books and bookends from slipping and sliding on the smooth surface of my desk.
And here it is - just a very simple runner, keeping everything tidy and in place. It’s really done the trick!!
It’s one of those very quick projects I’d been thinking I needed to do for ages, I don’t know why it took me so long to get around to it 
I love that fabric!
I have a small project like that, also kicking around in my head. It wouldn’t take too long to sew but because it’s so small it seems like so much effort to get my sewing machine out, pull out some fabric, etc. One of these days I’ll get to it, just to get it off my list.
Me too! I kind of wish I bought some more of it now. I used it to make this handbag for @endymion …
… and I was so happy with how that turned out too, it was a great one to work with. I think I’ve still got a wee bit left, maybe for a pencil case or something.
(And I’ve just realised, I never made a separate topic for that project either. That’s something I also want to do better at this year!)
