2025 DeStash-Along

This is so snuggly and pretty!!

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It looks so great! I’ve yet to start a Musselburgh hat even though I got the pattern weeks ago, but these pictures may convince me to prioritize knitting! I bet it’s so warm.

I found a messenger bag pattern in an old German quilting magazine and tonight I cut the pattern out of upholstery scraps - I skipped the quilting part, I just used the templates for the different pattern pieces. I’m still looking for a matching lining, but I’m sure I’ve got some simple cotton. I’m also going to add a zipper on top (under the “flap”) and if I can find some small zippers in my stash, I’ll add a few zippered pockets in the lining.

I’m sure I’ve got plenty of choice for long zippers, but I’m not sure about small zippers. I may have used them up when I made 4 pouches last month. Not sure if I’m going to buy them if I don’t have them, or design an alternative pocket.

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A scrappy bag sounds fun! You could always cut a long zipper to length if you’re out of small ones.

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I buy zippers in rolls. You can add a pull to what ever length you want…the problem? The rolls are huge! I have yet to use up a roll of any color!

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I’ll get better pictures in daylight, but I managed to destash one skein of random velvet yarn, two different kinds/colors of acrylic yarn, some stuffing and two doll eyes! This “baby” whale is about as big as my medium sized cat!

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@AIMR He looks so soft and squishy and just a little bit perturbed.

I have my first stash projects of February to share! They’re kind of on the hairy edge of DeStashing because I very purposely built up a stash of bookcloth at the end of last year so that I could just have my own little shop in the craft room without having to make my own bookcloth or order things online for each project. There’s nothing that kills a project’s momentum like waiting for the mail.

Two little 2.75"x4.25" books (7x10.8cm) with roughly 100 pages each.


And a half-letter folio with a little over 200 pages. I’m especially fond of the endpapers on this one.

So for anyone following along at home, that’s some bookboard, two sheets of sample bookcloth, and 4 sheets of cardstock out of stash. But this is not a part of the hoard I’m particularly worried about reducing the footprint of.

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Your books are gorgeous!

What size small zippers are you thinking?? I can look at what I have here somewhere… :eyes:

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I went through my own stash … and it turns out I have enough zippers to continue to make zipper pouches for a while :laughing: I’ve found fabric for the lining too.

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Nice, it’s great when we find stuff in our stash :smiley:

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