2022 - No Craft Spending - I WILL bust my stash and make pretty things!!!!!

Florenceem

AnimalTribe - great buy on the yarn and you know what you are going to use it for too.
Finished 12 creme egg covers using yarn and google eyes from stash.

craftingmad

plumduff55 said:

Hi, just found this thread and read it from the start. Can I join please? 

I knit, sew, and quilt.  Needless to say I have a stash for each of these hobbies !!! I am retired and have set aside Mondays, Wednesdays and alternate Fridays for my sewing and quilting.  I knit every night while watching tv. Can't relax unless I'm knitting 😄.  

Having a bit of arthritis now I realise that as time goes on I'm going to have to slow down and this realisation has motivated me to start using my stash and NOT buying any more. Wishful thinking though as I have my ticket for the Craft Show in Glasgow next month. This is my favourite event - I save all my spare money in a tin from one event till the next and then I go mad - but not this year I will take a shopping list and only buy what I need 🤞🤞🤞

Bye for now, Plum

welcome aboard pluffduff55 x 

craftingmad

Tiggermad said:

I've made a friend's birthday card ready for her birthday in March and made her present as well! It's a business card holder stand that I've decorated and stamped quotes on so she can choose what she wants to say without saying it 😁 it's one of those things I bought on a whim so pleased to have used it.

Can you rub some of your organisation off on me please - present sounds fab- any pictures? 

craftingmad

Deb4 said:

Hi everyone 

I made these for Easter which I enjoyed doing but I've ran out of card so had to get some more so spent £17.50 at the range as I needed a few things to finish a couple projects. I've made 25 projects 

love them and @n@nimbo i had to have one after reading your comment  

craftingmad

pennib said:

Having a few old and battered whelk shells lurking around I made these paper clay toadstools to go in them. The 'moss' is some leftover wool I had.de 

oh wow - that is amazing x 

craftingmad

keepcalmandcraft said:

Hello, it's great to hear everyone has been busy and to see the lovely makes.  I haven't been doing much crafting lately, just sitting in my craft room pondering and hoping for inspiration! 
I did manage to make a dog bed for my daughter's labrador puppy.  I used a curtain that used to hang in her bedroom and an old duvet so no spending needed.  

I do a lot of pondering too  

craftingmad

pennib said:

Wow, pennib, your canvas is impressive!   Did you design it yourself?   I have one that I started some years ago (I used to do a lot of tapestry work).   It was a brand new kit I found in a charity shop for a couple of pounds.   I’ve got a lot of the background to do, which is not terribly interesting and I need good natural daylight for it.   I have daylight bulbs but I don’t like them for this kind of work.   I am trying NOT to look up paper clay, but those toadstools are making it difficult.

Yes, greentiger it is my own design. Usually find that I have something in my head and then my hands go off on a tangent, ending up with something different! haha
Paper clay is pretty cheap to buy and here is one of my latest make...Neville the Fisherman, he is very proud of his curly beard! Paper clay head/bird and accessories, the rest of him is mixed media from my stash. Running out of paper clay.....temptation to get some more!

 

I have serious crafting envy now - amazing!

craftingmad

Florenceem said:

Hi, I just found this thread. I do lots of crafts to raise money for my SA Corps. Do you run the year from Christmas or January 1st as then I can see how many items I have made?

hi florenceem,

I run mine from Jan - dec but the challenge is flexible - work it however suits you.
Welcome aboard x

craftingmad

euronorris said:

You are all doing so well!

I haven't made anything else yet as had a busy few weekends. I did buy something else though. Oops! My MIL made me some lovely gift tags, using old birthday cards she had received and a 3 in 1 tag punch she had. They came out so lovely! It's a very simple tool, but produced really effective results. So naturally I couldn't resist purchasing my own from Amazon for £12.99 *facepalm* In my defence though, I didn't use my own money as I had an Amazon voucher, and I can recycle cards received more easily now  

In my mind vouchers don't count I also have that punch and love it so yet another reason I'm not counting it  

craftingmad

Wow so much progress been made and hardly any spending so I'm super proud of us all.
I hope everyone who has been poorly is feeling much better now. 
Sorry for being missing in action for a while - I became busy with life and orders. 

It does mean however that I have been busy making things and although I had to spend a few more pennies on things needed for orders (I've now spent £20.54/£300 in total so far but I also added up how much I spend last year in the same time scale and I'm ashamed to say it totalled over £2k so I'm really proud of myself) I am now up to 406/2022. Only another 1616 to go  

These are made up of a couple of mothers day cards, seed packets, stickers, bags of love, decorating some of my huge wooden shape stash and today I designed a print for my friends birthday. The frame I found whilst sorting through my stash so I must have had it ages as I cannot even remember buying it!. 

I just hope she likes it.