2025 - No Craft Spending - We WILL bust my stash and make pretty things!!!!!

KajiKita

Thank you @daisy_1571, I’m doing okay but haven’t progressed beyond a scarf yet so I will have a look at these 😊

KK

greentiger

Thanks for the suggestions, Auti and KajiKita.    I appreciated them.

I really did want to do the #H4MCR.   I enjoy doing it.   I was looking forward to it.
I do do quite a lot of different things - and I have a couple of new things 'waiting in the wings.  My daughter, who always feeds my hobbies at birthday, Christmas and Mother's Day, gave me 2 quick to finish craft packs .  One is a kit to make clay cat magnets and the other is a paint by numbers kit.
I also had bought fabric to make a baby quilt (another of my pleasures) but ended up buying a gift instead.
I think the main issue was getting my craft room in order - again.   It's almost back to working state and I feel much better about it.   I've even cleared some stuff out!

Writing that post was quite cathartic.   It cleared a blockage.   I picked up my Christmas crochet blanket again and I've sone quite a bit.   You wouldn't believe it though - I've run out of wool!   That's always a risk when using up stash.   Never fear, undeterred, I've gone as far as I can for now - and I've ordered  the wool I need (and maybe a little more from the clearance section, for another project, oops!   Well, the postage was the same for 6 balls as 1.)   The wool should arrive by Tuesday.   I live in a very small village and the nearest town doesn't have any craft shops.   One of the pharmacies sells wool, but not what I needed.

I'm not stopping now.   Tomorrow I'll get those pant liners out; they shouldn't take long to finish.   Just need to finish putting away card making stuff in their new homes.

Thank you for being so supportive.   

CraftyRach

I have several WIP’s and keep flitting between them.  I finally completed this crochet blanket for my neighbour,  who is due to have a baby in September 🙂

Project 27/52 ✅

KajiKita

Well done @greentiger, sounds like you have ‘unstuck’ yourself 😊👏

That’s beautiful @CraftyRach, well done. Mum to be will love that 😊❤️

KK

BridgetTheCat

That’s lovely @CraftyRach. How did you get the diamond pattern in the main body? It looks like front or back post trebles worked in rows?

CraftyRach

@BridgetTheCat it is called alpine stitch, I found the stitch pattern on Pinterest. Then I used a shell border (also found on Pinterest) 

Soontobeoap

@CraftyRach that is beautiful. I must look up alpine stitch. 

Talking of Alpine when I was expecting my son 42 years ago I had an extremely vivid dream where an Angel came to me and said " you shall have a boy and you will.call him Alpine. It was so real that I prayed for a girl as no boy would want that name. Any way my bump was called Alpine until I gave birth  and my very lovely healthy little lad was called Christopher. Strangely it wasn't important at all once he was born! 🤣

greentiger

That's a beautiful blanket, @CraftyRach

BridgetTheCat

Another bit of the stash used up 😀 I knitted up all the leftover wool from my chunky jumper into a long cowl.

daisy_1571

Saw this today lol