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2025 - No Craft Spending - We WILL bust my stash and make pretty things!!!!!
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https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6576772/2025-frugal-living-challenge/p81@Soontobeoap, here is the link to the pattern and instructions. The trickiest bit is getting the material into the metal and sewing in the holes.2025 Fashion on a ration 0/66 coupons
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@Gem-gem some absolutely stunning makes! I especially love your cards and crocheted bags. 😍3
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Hi, I’d like to join in very late for 2025 or early for 2026 depending on how you see it! I’m trying to get back to my frugal previous ways, having lost sight of them a little in the last year. Part of this is going to be using up the craft stash I have to make gifts instead of buying them, and to keep me out of mischief and away from online shopping. I’ve got some nice wool which is enough to do maybe 3 projects and a barely started book nook, lots of beads and wire from previous forays into jewellery making etc. I also inherited my late grandma’s unfinished cross stitch projects which I’ve not been able to bear to do yet, but might try to work up to.“Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming” 🐠https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6098084/discount-duck-s-quest-for-mortgage-freedom#latest7
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Finished! Finished sewing it up watching the very first series of the great British Sewing Bee - amazing to see how far it has evolved ans how young Patrick looked!
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@BridgetTheCat. The yarn is Sirdar Jewelspun Aran4
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I have so many crafts I started & never finished & way too many supplies left over!3
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I think this unnamed thread (but probably silko) was from Mr ds granny's stash. I inherited this back in 1989 and thought it was a beigey colour. Now I've started using it for tacking I see it has faded from a sort of plum colour 😆
22: 3🏅 4⭐ 23: 5🏅 6 ⭐ 24 1🏅 2⭐ 25 🏅 🥈2⭐ Never save something for a special occasion. Every day is a special occasion. The diff between what you were yesterday and what you will be tomorrow is what you do today Well organised clutter is still clutter - Joshua Becker If you aren't already using something you won't start using it more by shoving it in a cupboard- AJMoney The barrier standing between you & what youre truly capable of isnt lack of info, ideas or techniques. The secret is 'do it'5 -
Finished my second sampler blanket.
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