Craft Your Pins 2025 Craftalong

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Sometimes Pinterest becomes the place where our ideas go to be forgotten. This craftalong is a way for us to change that. If you have several pins of things you would like to try “some day,” this craftalong is here to help you make “some day” happen.

There will be monthly themes, but they’re just meant to be broad suggestions. Interpret them as you will, or ignore them all together.

Pick at least 1 pin from one of your Pinterest boards to COMPLETE by the end of each quarter. Post your goal and your end result here and we’ll cheer each other along :heart:

Feel free to post both the pin as well as your craft.

Feel free to post each new creation as a new reply, but you can also have one reply where you keep track of how many pins you have completed. It’s completely up to you.

Monthly Themes

Feel free to use these themes for inspiration, or ignore them all together and do your own thing.

January’s theme is KITCHEN. Make something for your kitchen, in your kitchen, or kitchen-inspired.

February’s theme is DOODLE. Doodle something, make something inspired by a doodle, or doodle while you think of something to craft.

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Great idea! I have so many things saved there.

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I think this is a really fun idea!

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We used to have doing something from our Pinterest boards as a challenge for many of the swaps at Deadster…I was just thinking of this as I was pinning yet another thing this morning…I am cleaning out things I no longer want to make, but there is still a lot more that I do…I am in!

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On desktop I don’t have issues as I use Brave, which automatically blocks ads… but on the app it’s a different story :frowning:

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This is an awesome idea!

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It sounds like we have enough people interested to start a thread. Should we just use this thread, and I’ll update the original post to say what we’re doing, or should I start a new one?

And what should we call the Cratalong? Does “Pinterest Doers” work, or do we want something else?

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maybe “Craft your Pins?”

I should probably do this also.

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I would just remove the " ? " and let’s get started!

I am going to go look for my first project to do for here!

I want to use up some of the hundreds of hexies I have in my stash!

Hexie Pouch

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I’m claiming my spot here. For the most part I want to try new recipes from my Pinterest boards, but perhaps some paper crafts and/or drawing stuff as well.

I’ll post my first goal pin soon.

Good luck, everyone!

Goal Pin 1: Socca (chickpea bread): https://ca.pinterest.com/pin/584131014143680198/ COMPLETE

Goal Pin 2: Salad in a Jar: https://ca.pinterest.com/pin/391391023886135861/

Goal Pin 3: 10 Minute “Vegan” tuna Salad": https://ca.pinterest.com/pin/391391023888544924/
I’m putting vegan in quotation marks because the recipe looks good, but I’m not vegan, so I’m going to substitute real mayo, which is what I have on hand.

Goal Pin 4: Onigirazu for dinner on Monday, but I’m going to replace the salmon with cooked crunchy tilapia. COMPLETE

Goal Pin 5:mini chickpea flour frittatas. I’ve made these before and they’re yummy.

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I’ve changed the title and added some more info to the original post. Hopefully it makes sense; please feel free to suggest any additions to it!

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I’m going to start easy with these: https://pin.it/6IrwvyRmj

I’ve got a bunch of jeans pockets cut out.

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Wow… I’m in! But… which of my 5 billion pins should I choose? :laughing:

(Off to pick one)

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I’m excited to watch this craftalong! I use Pinterest A LOT, but not exactly in this way, so I’ll just be a very interested watcher.

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This means I have to log in to my Pinterest account! Hahah, been a while since I was using it to be honest. But I know I have lots of good crafts there I wanna make!
But this will be a fun craftalong!

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oh, the quotation mark got on the wrong side of the question mark, oops. I didn’t mean to imply we had to be skeptical about crafting things! :laughing:

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Me too! I’m in!

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I went to Pinterest, searched “random” and found 5 random things to add and watched a video. Then tried browsing my pins. Finally found one.

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Do we want to post our pin creations as new posts each time, or should we post them all under the same reply? Does it matter?

Also, would people be interested in monthly themes (suggestions only; people can craft what they like)?

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I think monthly themes can be fun, but like a suggestion. I know I will try to do the suggestion and it can results in things I wouldnt make it I got to chose. Its fun to challenge oneself with new stuff!

And I think new post for each pin creations is good. But one could edit the first post to collect all your creations done. But make a new post when you have finished a new pin, that way people will see it and not have to scroll through and see what other have created.

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