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By on January 19, 2012 in sewing, Stash Bash

I’ve never met a crafter without a stash of some kind. This year my goal is to use up all the craft supplies I have spent money on that are taking up mental and physical space in my life.  Join me here every Thursday for a Stash Bash.    

Thank you all soooo much for the birthday wishes yesterday!  You have no idea how much it means to me and each one of your messages made me smile and laugh.

I spent the day (all day) in bed.  I was served three wonderful meals (all favorites) and had time to read, knit and of course, computer time.  It all worked out so perfectly.  Yarn along day is my favorite day to check out what everyone else has been up to and yesterday I was able to visit so many of your blogs, it was great.

Onto the Stash Bash.  This week I worked on some some new shopping bags and bulk food bags.  This is one of the first products I made when I opened my first shop on Etsy back in 2006!  I can’t believe so much time has gone by since then.  These were one of my best sellers back then and mine were in need of being replaced.  I found this beautiful sheet that I must have purchased to use as fabric because I like plain sheets on beds.  I still have so much rip stop nylon left from when I used to sell the bulk food bags.  So I picked a color which matched the sheet and got to work.  In my ribbons pile I found the twill tape to use for the handles and viola, now I have new shopping bags.

I am only showing a few since they all look the same, for the pictures sake.  The bag and 6 of the bulk food bags fold up and they tuck away in the front white pocket of the bag.  It all folds down to the size of a piece of bread and takes no room at all in my purse.

So what did you get done this week, I can’t wait to see!   No projects to share yet?  Take a picture of your stash and some of your plans for your stash and post that!  Below is the linky list for you to add your project.  

Here’s what to do. There are no rules. 
Just use what you have and try to not buy new supplies, unless you need it to complete a project that you are making from stuff you already have in your stash. 
Take a picture of your project or progress and blog about it or post a picture to flickr.
Then come back here on Thursdays and post a link to your post.
Don’t forget to link back to the Stash Bash so others can find us and get encouraged too.
Fair enough?  

If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or follow me by email at the top right hand of the screen to have future posts sent to you. Tricia (Crunchy Catholic Momma)

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Stash Bash

By on January 13, 2012 in Stash Bash

I’ve never met a crafter without a stash of some kind. This year my goal is to use up all the craft supplies I have spent money on that are taking up mental and physical space in my life.  Join me here every Thursday for a Stash Bash.   

I have a pile of possible first projects for todays Stash Bash and as I was looking through bins for some fabric to make what I thought would be this weeks project I found a bag full of half finished crochet projects with half written patterns pinned or stuffed into them.  This is me…  I think I have C.A.D.D (craft attention deficit disorder).  I wake up to an idea which I must bring to fruition so I start crocheting and writing and scratching out, followed by ripping out, more scratching out and writing, some minor bad language, frustration and then I stash it away where the guilt of giving up won’t find me. 

So, now I have added to my challenge of using up my stash, the challenge of working on my unfinished patterns.  I have written over a hundred patterns, no lie.  I have only finalized and tested a handful : (  

Here is a picture of my binder full of unfinished patterns and of course each pattern has an unfinished project to go with it…I am in deep trouble!   However, I remind myself that I did not get into this mess in one day and I am not going to get out in a day either.  I plan to slowly work on each one, in the order of my favorites and will share my progress with you as I get them done.

I did get one of those crochet projects done this week.  It is a baby papoose that I started writting when I was preggers with Livie (who is going to be 3 this month).  I never got to the point of typing it up so I was working with 3 year old chicken scratch on pieces of paper, backs of envelopes etc.  It was hard to remember where I was going with my idea so I just winged it and am happy with it. 

Just as I was getting somewhere with this pattern, I realized I would not have enough yarn to complete it and I got this yarn such a long time ago that no way would I be able to match it.  That turned into more digging through bins until I found a project which I made from that yarn and I did not mind sacrificing to get my papoose done.

This papoose is not for giving away, I am hopeful that we will be blessed again someday and if you just fell off your chair after that statement, sorry but that really is my hearts desire.   I am super happy with it.  It is super soft and warm and hopefully will keep a tiny one content someday.  Now I need to type up the pattern and get it tested.

So what did you get done this week, I can’t wait to see!  Below is the linky list for you to add your project. 

Here’s what to do. There are no rules.
Just use what you have and try to not buy new supplies, unless you need it to complete a project that you are making from stuff you already have in your stash.
Take a picture of your project or progress and blog about it or post a picture to flickr.
Then come back here on Thursdays and post a link to your post.
Don’t forget to link back to the Stash Bash so others can find us and get encouraged too.
Fair enough? 
If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or follow me by email at the top right hand of the screen to have future posts sent to you. Tricia (Crunchy Catholic Momma)

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