No Craft Spending in 2020 - I will bust my stash this year!!!

loopychriss

Glad to hear you're all OK and making good use of our time indoors.

Over the past few days I've made 2 more face masks, and finished a fiddle blanket, taking my total to 70.


70/100

ziggy2407

I must admit I've struggled to settle to crafting over the last couple of weeks (partly the worry over the virus and party due to fast tracked hospital appointments, appointments went well (if you can call 6 biopsies well) and now am in limbo waiting for results and feeling guilty for adding to the already strained NHS labs) but finally I can declare

50 Cards made
2 x boxes of crafty bits sent to friends on lockdown
1 x brooch and small knitting pins to a friend (to let her know she's on my mind)

@craftingmad - my thoughts are with you, I love your felt flowers
@loopychriss - you are amazing, well done!!  I have stash of buttons for you when things settle down to normal
@vulpix - can't wait to see pics of your makes
@emsi_b - I love the colours of that jumper, it's looking fab 


I really need to make a "Baby" card as my niece is expecting her 1st baby in the next few weeks - very bittersweet, as we lost her Dad (my brother) very quickly and he would have loved a Grand-Baby, she's single and had IVF and now we have this awful pandemic and know that with our health issues (and my mum's at 85) it will be a while before we can see them    Being in quarantine means I should be able to use up more of my stash and may even get the sewing machine out of its box and learn how to use it.  Anyway, enough of my moaning - sorry 

Keep up the great crafting everyone.  Stay safe!

vulpix

The flowers for MIL. 

vulpix

Ziggy hope your hospital visits were productive. Xxx. 
My daughter is a speech therapist and is being repurposed as a health care assistant next week on a geriatric dementia ward. So many of the nursing staff are ill. She isn’t looking forward to it. As she says I deal with the top end not the bottom end. Hahaha it will do her good. I started my working life as a nurse. 
I am changing my garden around. I have spent the last few days digging out landfill on the edge of the patio so I can put soil in and make a new flower bed. Done now. Will have to wait for compost/soil sadly. Not quite an essential purchase. Perhaps I could get it online. 
It should have been my nephews wedding today. Thank goodness it’s off it’s freezing. Sad like you ziggy his Mum passed last year. 
Now I have come in out of the cold I will sew up the hat and little jumper. 
Keep warm. 
Vx

craftingmad

ziggy2407 said:

I must admit I've struggled to settle to crafting over the last couple of weeks (partly the worry over the virus and party due to fast tracked hospital appointments, appointments went well (if you can call 6 biopsies well) and now am in limbo waiting for results and feeling guilty for adding to the already strained NHS labs) but finally I can declare

50 Cards made
2 x boxes of crafty bits sent to friends on lockdown
1 x brooch and small knitting pins to a friend (to let her know she's on my mind)

@craftingmad - my thoughts are with you, I love your felt flowers
@loopychriss - you are amazing, well done!!  I have stash of buttons for you when things settle down to normal
@vulpix - can't wait to see pics of your makes
@emsi_b - I love the colours of that jumper, it's looking fab 


I really need to make a "Baby" card as my niece is expecting her 1st baby in the next few weeks - very bittersweet, as we lost her Dad (my brother) very quickly and he would have loved a Grand-Baby, she's single and had IVF and now we have this awful pandemic and know that with our health issues (and my mum's at 85) it will be a while before we can see them    Being in quarantine means I should be able to use up more of my stash and may even get the sewing machine out of its box and learn how to use it.  Anyway, enough of my moaning - sorry 

Keep up the great crafting everyone.  Stay safe!

Wow Ziggy you have been very productive - well done.
I know exactly what you mean about settling though - I've been flittering from project to project without concentrating on anything in particular -  I think its this strange situation we are in don't you

I'm so glad you like the felt flowers - mum comments on them every time I phone her so I'm really pleased they are bringing  smile to her face. 

When you earn how to use the sewing machine - can you teach me pretty please  

craftingmad

vulpix said:

The flowers for MIL. 

vulpix said:

Ziggy hope your hospital visits were productive. Xxx. 
My daughter is a speech therapist and is being repurposed as a health care assistant next week on a geriatric dementia ward. So many of the nursing staff are ill. She isn’t looking forward to it. As she says I deal with the top end not the bottom end. Hahaha it will do her good. I started my working life as a nurse. 
I am changing my garden around. I have spent the last few days digging out landfill on the edge of the patio so I can put soil in and make a new flower bed. Done now. Will have to wait for compost/soil sadly. Not quite an essential purchase. Perhaps I could get it online. 
It should have been my nephews wedding today. Thank goodness it’s off it’s freezing. Sad like you ziggy his Mum passed last year. 
Now I have come in out of the cold I will sew up the hat and little jumper. 
Keep warm. 
Vx

Love those flowers vulpix - they are fabulous
Well done on sorting your graden - I am wishing that I had bought some plants and soil before lock down too! 
Thinking about your daughter and nephew. Poor things
Stay safe x  

craftingmad

I've managed to be quite productive again these last few days although if I could concentrate I could have achieved so much more! 
Since my last update I am declaring a further 36 items made
These are:-
10 x cards (the remaining ones required for the nursing home)
1 x card for mum and dad to remind them I love them 
3 x flowers (the ones I am making each day whilst we are in this situation)
3 x prints (all made for orders)
3 x happiness journals (all made for orders)
3 x wish bracelets  (again for orders)
3 x mirrors (for orders)
4 x mini seed packs (for orders)
3 x bags of happiness (for orders)
2 x lengths of rainbow bunting for our windows made from scraps of cardstock I had lying around
1 x chalked rainbow on our drive (a bit of a cheat but it did use up some chalk I have had in my craft room for ages so I'm counting it!)
My total now stands at 658/2020   

vulpix

All I have managed to do this afternoon is sew up this little hat. I put whiskers on it twice but couldn’t get them right. Photo makes the ears look odd,but they are the same honest  10/12

craftingmad

vulpix said:

All I have managed to do this afternoon is sew up this little hat. I put whiskers on it twice but couldn’t get them right. Photo makes the ears look odd,but they are the same honest  10/12

I love the hat and the ears look puuuurfect to me vulpix  

emsi_b

Thinking of you all, hope you're all looking after yourselves as best as you can.
I've been keeping myself busy. I've done a bit more on my son's dungarees- I've not touched them in months and thought they'd be too small now, but I compared them to a pair of his just too small trousers and I think they'll be fine. They do look like they'll be way too big for his middle though 😂 I need to put some interfacing in, and then work out what on earth the instructions for the legs mean!
I've carried on with my knitting, it's a nice quiet activity to do when young sir is asleep. 
I might bring my stamping stuff down from the spare room and do some tonight. I need to have a practice before I stamp straight onto the cards, if they aren't perfect I'll let my little one colour them in and use them for cards for father's day and birthdays from him 😊