Stash Busting 2015 - I WILL use my mountains before buying more!

clodagh_trubble

Have made two more cards, and continuing my crochet blanket, have also sorted out my huge stash of yarn and donated some to charity - it's still a large stash but I WILL work through it before buying more - I WILL!!, just trying to convince myself. Have cut out lining for basket from material in stash too, rather than buying the one I had my eye on.


I have sorted out some stamps for charity too, really need to get rid of more but will have to do it a bit at a time I think

greentiger

60 wedding invitations made (card, ribbon & embellishments were all new) but I used up lots of double sided tape, so I'm counting 1 stash item for that.

wedding invitation by r.doctor, on Flickr

The colour is teal, although it's showing up more as blue in the picture.

Birdie85

Rubbish news about your husband's job Craftingmad. Hope something good pops up for him soon!

I made this last week.

nimbo

I have completed 4 decoupage chipboard shapes from a kit and painted two as they were too fiddly to decoupage...

6 to add to the total...

I even had a quick tidy round in the craft room... Still a away to go - but it's looking better than it was...

I also had the chance to see how much 'stuff' I have - I need to crack on and use some of it up... I'm away next weekend and will be collecting lots of 'stuff' to make a smash book of the trip. Which will hopefully use up lots of embellishments etc....

This week I'm off and am planning to crack on with a dress pattern - I may need to buy a zip but won't until i've done all the steps up to that point...

rosie51

Very pleased to add my total of makes over last few days 6, so that's 7 makes so far, will go for 100 now.
My makes so far are---

1] Pompom rug.
2] 6 bead necklaces.

Debrak1

I'm up to 19 so far this year.

15 Christmas cards for next Christmas (I'm still too new to post links though - bah!)

Two sets of stamps which I got free with a mag which if I'm honest with myself I will never use - have moved them to the office to list for pennies on flea bay

Two packs of bright sticky ric rack which I've thrown in the bin as I can't see why I ever bought them in the first place!

Have felt inspired cos my lovely hubby brought me home a filing shelf unit for my craft area which means I can get at my stuff easier and don't have to move stacked up stuff to get to my dies or stamp catalogue etc. It was free too as his works were going to chuck it in a skip - it was still brand new in the box!

PixieDust

Last night I sorted through my fabric quarters and sifted out a few bits for a friend. That will go with some magazines and free kits and will count as one, so 51/100 for me.

Today I have prepped some fabric to make drawstring bags for storage and travel, I will count them when they are complete

later the same day........four drawstring bags made in varying sizes. All fabric, thread and ribbon from stash, so I'm now up to 55/100

Even later the same day......I've bought some Len0r Unst0ppable scent booster and I'm going to use fabric offcuts to hand sew little pouches to make drawer smelly-thingies

craftingmad

Thank you all so much for your kind words - they really mean a lot


It's great to see such many lovely stash busting creations and just what I need at the moment


The bad news is I haven't managed to sell anymore bits on Facebook so cannot declare any further de-stash items towards my total I also haven't managed to finish organising my craft room yet but I am getting there slowly but surely (I'm finding it a bit hard to be motivated at the minute whilst I don't know what is going on )


I am however going to declare 4 makes. Two are a little bit of a cheat but I have used my stash - promise. I have organised and tidied my loose ribbon (those bits not on reels) onto clothes peg and they now sit nicely organised in a glass jar or on a jewellery spinner rather than in a tanged mess like they were before. In doing this I have used up two packets of wooden pegs which I had in craft stash to alter so am going to count this project as 2 towards my total seeing as it has made a little dent in my existing stash


I have also made two felt owls to sell at my next craft fair (although they are super duper sweet and given my passion for owls may not make it any further than my craft room but they still used up some felt sheets, embroidery thread and cotton so they too will be counted as a further 2 makes


Hoping to make a few more tomorrow but will have to see what mood I'm in


Keep up your stirling work sallow stash busters.


Happy crafting

Birdie85

Piccies Craftingmad?! I love the sound of the owls and I really love seeing how people organise their stash!

I haven't really done anything this week. I just made a little bit of paper bunting to pretty up 'my' wall in the office at work, it used about 1m of wool so I guess I can count that as something used up!

PixieDust

Does anyone have any ideas of little things I can make from fabric to use up my offcuts? I have made scented drawer sachets and drawstring bags.....I don't ejoy patchwork.....any ideas?

edit: Found this - trouble is I do'nt fancy making anything on here!!! But it might help someone: http://tipnut.com/scrap-happy-fabric-scrap-ideas-free-patterns/