2023 - No Craft Spending - I WILL bust my stash and make pretty things!!!!!

sammy_kaye18

I love the cards @Soontobeoap They are so pretty. 
I think maybe you could put them as £1.50 each or 2 for £2 - might encourage them to spend the extra 50p to get the second card but will all go towards a good cause and helping your club. Like you said its all profit and has only cost you time so every little bit will help. x

Soontobeoap

Another one made. What time wasters these are! I should be gardening, doing housework or cooking. Plenty to do but just loving these simple little projects. 

RavenRover

Finally got round to making some panty liners.  Definitely need to improve my sewing skills but I will get there😃

lauramolonlabe

 Great project, well done- I always love rainbow stuff. 

old_fogey

@Soontobeoap your cards are lovely. I hope you raise loads of money. Pricing is so difficult isn't it.

@RavenRover you have been busy! So useful, and a great item to practice sewing on too.

Katiehound

7 more doggy duvets delivered today as well as 6 woven 'bones'. Should be a huge gap in the house: no such luck!

Also done quite a bit of spending
- some dog themed fabric to make 'tetrapak' bags, 5 metres Christmas fabric, iron-on interfacing , fat quarters, 100 x 8" zips, 50 m cotton tape (kennel coats) 8 balls of sparkly crotchet thread & 40 plastic rings for angel heads. 
Last of all 3 x rubber stamps from a charity shop: one @ 75 pence was priced when new at over £10, and another was probably £5 (hero Arts)
Ah well, the sum total comes to £77.19! that surely bumps up my spends!

plumduff55

Hi, been really busy and quite stressed since my holiday. Yesterday I ran out of fabric for a quilt I am making for a wedding present. Wedding is next Saturday. Anyway the shop I bought the fabric from has closed and I now have to find the fabric online. Luckily I took details of the four fabrics but this delay will make it impossible to finish the quilt in time for the wedding  😡. Today I finished one of the four bags I am sewing for the flower girls. I timed myself and it took 90 minutes to make so I should get the other 3 finished tomorrow. Happy crafting

plumduff55

PS @Soontobeoap your cross stitch christmas cards are beautiful - it is really hard pricing hand made things
@RavenRover your liners are a great way to use up your stash - lovely 

sammy_kaye18

@Soontobeoap love the cards. They are so sweet and would make great cards or even gift tags. 
@Katiehound wow you have had a productive week and the purchases all sound necessary so that's not a bad thing. :-) 
@plumduff55 sorry to hear you ran out of the fabric you need but hopefully it will be delivered quickly and not be too long before you can finish your quilt. The little flower girl bags are so pretty.

I have been picking a fight with my printer all day - its a HP one and I just cannot get it to print and I don't know what the flashing lights all mean so I need to ring them - I'm only trying to print off a teddy bear pattern so I am going to go over to see my MIL tomorrow to get it printed off - especially whilst my FIL is in hospital and I have access to his printer without him nosing at what Im printing when its something I want to make for my mother in law. LOL 

He had his surgery yesterday and he seems ok. He didn't get back on the ward until gone 7pm and is likely to be groggy today from painkillers and meds so hoping we can speak to him tomorrow on World Grandparents Day. 

MIL has also given me a load of curtains etc which I have happily re-homed - I'm not sure what to do with them yet but I will try and think of something. 

Cupcakecraftscuddlycanine

How annoying for you @plumduff55 everything seems to be closing at the moment! 

I've been inspired by you all to make more gifts for Christmas... 

So far I've created a pack of notecards (which I never would of thought of as a gift without this forum) (all made from stash)

Then I've got a plain canvas bag to paint for a friend as well 6 pairs of shoes to paint... looking at the calendar I'm suddenly realising though how little time is left... 😵‍💫 🤞 (all blanks were bought new but paint/sealant is stash)