So true! I am actually spending some time knitting as a break from household duties and destashing so a bunch of things will get done at the same time. Putting away Christmas decor (and destashing there as well), working on tax stuff, knitting, going through yarn, loading laundry…mostly knitting, though! 
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I prevented some scraps from becoming stash today!
I’m working on a quilt and when I finished the blocks I decided to piece the cutoff triangles together right away. Chain piecing them took no time at all.
I know if I shove a bunch of triangles in the fabric bin they’re never going to come out again, but a couple dozen HSTs, I’ll find some use for them. Maybe even in the same quilt (I just started from the middle and I’m still undecided about the rest).
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I’m not sure if I have already mention this here, but I recently discovered that there’s a new-ish creative reuse store in the nearest city! I destashed beads/findings when I made the jewelry tree by taking two baggies of that stuff + a picture frame on my first visit. I now have a box set aside to put things in as I come upon them and am excited to destash this way in addition to by making things.
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Finished my hat…still have a bit of the Noro left but it will go into my scrap stash to be used to make random projects later! Tried to use up even more by making a pom pom…I swear the stuff replicates itself when I leave the room!
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Wow! That’s great looking. The color pooled nicely.
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Thanks! Do you see the double “v’s” where I repeated the same row twice? 
I can’t unsee it but I will live with it because it is such a warm hat!
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I call that a design change. 
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lol So do I…and it just happened to fall in the purple pooling, so yeah, I planned it that way after the fact! 
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Looks like bunnies!
Scrappy addiction. Is there a Scrappers Anonymous?
I donate these 13" squares (they trim them) and I get in the zone, and can’t stop until my back screams. My stash doesn’t ever seem to get smaller.
20 blocks will make a quilt. These will be sorted into other colorway groups, but I like seeing them all together. Whew. Taking a break.
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Is this a national organization that collects these blocks? I can see why you enjoy making them…all those lovely prints and colors! At least you know you are putting your scraps to good use and someone will enjoy having a blanket made with them!
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It is Hartford Stitch. They make as many 4 x 5 block quilts as they can every year for homeless shelters. Later in January they have a community sew-in to assemble the quilts.
Making the blocks are a wonderful relaxing, throw together some scraps, calming exercise. And it feels good, plus uses up some stash.
(I am really just procrastinating on making the kitchen roman shades….)
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Not sure if I already mentioned this…..Frogged a project that I wasn’t loving and sent this yarn to a friend…
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I destashed one skein of WHITE bulky yarn and a tiny bit of red to make these coasters for gifts. 12 coasters in all!
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Candy. Peppermint candy. These are yummy.
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Reminds me of Campino hard candy, the ones that had the pretty red swirl. Haven’t seen those in the store for decades.
I sewed all my triangle cutoffs into HST and I’ve started ironing and squaring them up. About half of them are 2", some are smaller. I’m sewing the 2" into pinwheel blocks. Later this week I’ll look at the smaller HSTs to figure out what I’ll do with those.
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This weekend I pulled an old quilt project out of the depths of stash, added the borders, pieced the backing, prepped the binding, and then put it back in the drawer until it’s warm enough for me to spray baste outside again.
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I took stock of my threads yesterday. I inherited a lot and still had partial spools I purchased twenty years ago. Yikes. All the old stuff went in the bag and the rest got reorganized.
I also frogged an old scrap-ghan that I’m never going to finish (I really don’t crochet anymore), and rescued a few random, little balls of wool. I washed enough for knitting a hat, and will make that my next portable knit project. It started out looking like a rat’s nest, but looks much better today!
Then, I reorganized my quilting WIPs and fabric. My craft area is definitely easier to navigate after all the sorting out.
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Your box of thread looks so pretty! I also have a big stash of thread, most of it inherited. Especially for mending it’s so convenient to have options. It also always puts a smile on my face to use my grandma or my greataunt’s spools.
I have been collecting scraps of candle wax and I’ve been carefully ignoring the growing pile. I think that’s a nice job for Saturday. We burned a few candles over the festive period that had quite a lot of leftover wax. In the past year I also used up three candles that came in fancy glass jars. So my plan is to melt the wax and pour it in the jars to make new candles.
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Thanks! Some of that thread was definitely my mom’s. I’m just worried that its strength has been compromised by age, but I’m sure there are applications for which it’ll still be adequate.
That’s a good idea, saving the candle stumps to make new candles. I had to trim down a pillar candle that wasn’t burning evenly and just made myself a giant chunk of beeswax for waxing thread, but I’ll never use all of it. And the last bits of the taper candles are adding up…I hope I didn’t declutter all of my random glass jars.
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