Color: Pink
Pattern: dots
For: a loved one
Challenge 1: Finish the oldest WIP you can find in your stash
Ongoing Challenge: Choose a supply to concentrate on this month. Set up some metrics to track your progress (ex: before/after pics of the container, weight of supply at beginning of month vs. end, etc.)
Here is what I made in January to DeStash some old yarn: 4 hats (shocker, I know 
). All the same pattern. Six different balls of yarn used. Sadly, only one was used up. Totals: 283 grams / 765 yards of yarn used.
I like that pattern! The last one is my favourite.
It’s baby steps but I used up another spool of sewing thread and I’ve started a project using fabric that had been in my stash for a while.
To drum up a little activity here’s a discussion Question of the Week:
What supply comes to mind first when you think of your stash and why that particular thing (especially if you are the sort of crafter who keeps all sorts of supplies on hand)?
It’s got to be a tie between paper and fabric, followed closely by wood.
I think it’s these, because it’s what I have the most of and what can be useful in even small pieces. And I have so many ideas for them all! It’s just a matter of prioritizing the mass-making required to truly bust these. I think the fabric and wood are the stashes I’d most like to really diminish and also not buy just for stash. Even though my paper stash is probably much bigger if counted by the piece, it’s much smaller in terms of cubic inches/feet/meters.
For me, it is a toss up between fabric and yarn. I have always loved fabrics and growing up, fabric was considered something to be used for clothing. When I started to do other sewing projects like bags and pouches, there were so many prints and colors that I just started collecting them all as fast as I could! When online shopping became popular, it made it so much easier to order fat quarters.
Yarn! Crocheting is my favorite craft, so my stash is mostly yarn. I’ve been gifted a lot of yarn from other people’s stashes, so it’s currently overflowing the closet where I keep my craft supplies.
Fabric is probably the second largest part of my stash. I tended to buy pretty fat quarters and clearance/sale fabric when I saw it when Joanns was open, but I haven’t been sewing much lately.
I finished one project in January - my Sophie blanket!
I still have quite a bit of the yarn left, so I’ll need to decide what to make with it. 
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eta: I also gave all of my valentine’s themed scrapbooking paper to the local library for their valentine’s craft day.
“What supply comes to mind first when you think of your stash and why that particular thing (especially if you are the sort of crafter who keeps all sorts of supplies on hand)?”
Fabric, notions. Aww, everything. In the last couple of months I have made, from ,stash, a backpack, added adjustable straps to an apron, many quilt blocks, holiday cards, croched baskets, fabric baskets, magnets for the dishwasher (clean/dirty) and fridge, and likely more. My wife has asked the age old question “I need ____, do you have anything like that?” And I did.
Sigh, guess I’ll keep my stash.
Yarn.
I used to be much more varied in my crafts, but I’ve definitely whittled down to what I enjoy for the most part, which is partly informed by my craft space (or lack thereof in some cases). It’s not as fun to try to do big messy crafts when I don’t have the space for it. It requires more energy in that case to be motivated, and the motivation finds me or it doesn’t.
Yarnie projects are almost always easily done on the couch or any sitting space
Yarn is my primary stash and then I have ridiculous quantities of paper and fabric while hardly ever using any such supplies. I have limited each to one large tote bin, but honestly there’s no good storage space for those bins so I am making concerted efforts to get Kidlet to use them up with me this year and then we’ll buy-as-we-need things for future special projects. As she’s 7 1/2 now her crafting skills can be free-range scissory and more self driven.
I have not thought of doll blankets yet thank you now I will start emptying my over stuffed basket!
Yarn and fabric. Yarn - because I like to knit, and friends and family have given me their outcasts to add to what was already a large stash. Fabric - because I still have hope to learn to sew for myself and to make quilts. I also have a large stash of old clothes that no longer fit myself and Mr. Squared. I want to reuse the good stuff from those clothes.
Another 159 grams / 434.1 yards used on these two hats. Yay! This was some of my MIL’s outcasts. She doesn’t do scrappy projects 
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Love the bobbles! Adds so much whimsy.
Uses up extra yarn too. 
I made another donation trip to the creative reuse store yesterday. The box was probably about half stuff I brought home from helping my mom clear out my uncle’s house earlier this month, but half was my stuff and I didn’t add his art books or extra photographs to my house! Of course, I’m not walking into a creative reuse store and not taking a quick look, so I ended up with 2 vintage trims (one I plan to put to use in the coming weeks). BUT ALSO, one of the workers made a point of telling me that my donation was extra good stuff. I just knew that my crap was superior!
I am also midway through an almost all stash papercraft project. Sadly, the one thing I have to buy is some white fun foam which is a thing I donated my roll of late last year. D’oh! I will only be getting a single sheet.
Well, now I have encountered the first instance of my going to use a material that I have donated! Not a big deal; it’s inexpensive, I can get a much smaller amount, and get it locally, to boot. It has postponed working on a project for a few days, but that’s probably for the best as I have other things around here that I should be doing instead anyway. Sigh.
But what was it? Inquiring (crafty hoarder) minds want to know!
That silly fun foam stuff from the kids’ craft section. In white. There is a lot to not like about that stuff, but it is exactly the right material for what I have planned.
