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

Soontobeoap

Oh Wow, well done @CraftyRach . I am not surprised they picked that card. It is outstanding. You are very talented and have loads of patience.

I bought some tinsel yarn this week and with my newly acquired skill of knitting, I have started to make elves for Christmas fair. £7.98 spent.

CraftyRach

It’s been a busy week for me, I made a multi panel accordion card for my daughter and a double “w” card with candles for my niece’s 21st birthday 😊

Projects 32 & 33/50 ✅ all from stash

Dizzycap

@ Soontobeoap - Great going with your new skill of knitting!  I hope you enjoy making the elves for Christmas  @ CraftyRach - Another 2 super cards from your stash  AWESOME! 

emsi_b

Just noticed my photos didn't upload with my last post! The ones below are from my new masks from the craft show.

I've made another 3 cards (now up to 74/200), some smaller ones with the aim of using up toppers and peel offs. Doing OK- one sheet of peel offs used up and in the bin, a couple more with only two or three stars on to be used up imminently. I've got a few more made up, but they need liners as they're on black card blanks. Will count them when they're lined.

daisy_1571

Lovely cards craftyrach and emsi

We've had a new addition to the wider family, 10lb 4oz baby boy arrived this week.  I've made a wallhanging from a printed panel using a panel ive had for years, wadding and backing material from stock too but then bought new material for bunting with his name - oops!  Spent a fortune in the shop but it was all such lovely material I couldn't resist.  The stuff for his bunting is only the merest drop compared to the stuff I bought for me!!!  Doesn't help the using existing stuff up though does it !

I've also bought a new ike@ table recently.  You can crank it up or down.  Technically a sitting and standing desk but i wanted it for cutting material, laying out, pinning, watching you toob videos explaining how to do the thing you are trying to do (I bought a stand that clamps on the desk and holds you pattern or pad or phone) etc.  Oh its amazing.   No sore back like I usually have after an afternoon bending at the pasting table cutting and pinning.  Even with my blocks of scrap wood to raise it up a few inches it was still just slightly too low. 

Desk arrived Wednesday and I've spent most of a week taking stuff out craft room that shouldn't really have ever been stored in there, moving bits of furniture around to house the stuff that needs to now be kept elsewhere, but the end result was to make room for my new cutting table.   Emptying a bookcase to see if I need a bookcase in my craft room, i decided I do but that one had to go back where it came from and be refilled again.   Then I saw a perfect bookcase on gumtree for £20 so toddled off and bought that, went through all my craft books and probably about half can go as I'm only keeping them for one item or one stencil.   But now I have order (mostly) and can easily access table, machine, iron, material etc and spaaaaccce to move.  Wonderful. 

I do feel a bit like a removal man must feel.  However everything is more or less where it needs to be now, albeit some is in piles on the landing having not quite got back into its cupboards yet. 

I've also started on my racking.  Decamped one plastic box worth of 'useful things' into a h@bbycr@ft trolley thats never been properly used so now I can easily access quilting clips, needles, scissors, quickunpicks etc etc.  Oh the joy of putting your hand right on something easily.

Got rid of another box of things off the racking but only as far as the floor next to sewing machine table.   That will be gone through now and things either finished, started (and completed) then rehomed.   So I do intend to use up my stash! 


Keep on keeping on folks

Daisy xxx

Auti

Finished my crochet roses - will live next to my crocheted sunflowers

KajiKita

Those are amazing @Auti 😊👏

KK

CraftyRach

What a busy time you have had @daisy_1571!  

What beautiful crocheted roses @Auti
😍

emsi_b

@Auti your roses are beautiful! How are you feeling?

@daisy_1571 having the craft room just right makes a big difference! I'm still at the crawling around on the floor stage of cutting fabric, but I'll add a standing desk for future iterations of the craft room! I have been eyeing one up for working from home, but hadn't thought about using one for cutting out.

18 cards to report- a mix of men's birthday and Christmas ones. I have so many new cards I might sell all the old ones off a half price just to make a dent in all the "craft stall" boxes 😂 nothing booked in for a while yet, but nice to have a refresh. Now up to 92/200

daisy_1571

Emsi when I was making curtains more often I bought half a dozen cheap pasting tables just so I wasn't crawling on the floor as much. Made a huge difference to get a large (fairly) flat surface.  I could put them in different patterns depending how wide or long I was working on and they fold up fairly small