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Stash Bash and a frogged sweater

Oh I am so excited to get going with this Stash Bash.  In case you missed it, I am hosting a Stash Bash to encourage all of us (I’ve never met a crafter without a stash of some kind) to use up all the craft items we have already spent money on and are taking up mental and physical space in our lives.

Here is what I wrote about it last week and a picture of one of the cabinets where I keep a little part of my stash.



So if you are in come back here every Thursday and I will be posting how I am bashing my stash and you can link up to your stash bashing on your own blog or Flickr picture.  I can’t wait to see what you are all doing so put it on your calendar.  My goal is to use the cabinets and cabinets of fabric and 6 bins of yarn along with lots of my crafty stash in 2012.


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?  


This week I am yarning along again with Ginny from Small Things.  I have been working on a knitted football hat for my football loving son and a new hat for Livie but have no pictures yet.  I have been reading seed catalogs at night in bed, which get too excited for spring and then I can’t seem to fall asleep.  To me, that counts as good reading lol.

To stick to my goal of using up what I have I remembered this wool sweater  I took apart to frog someday into yarn.  I got out my seam ripper and scissors and ended up with 2 very large and 2 smaller balls of 100% wool yarn.  This yarn is a teenie bit scratchy so I will wash it and see what comes of it.  It is a sock weight yarn so I am planning to turn it into a few pairs of felted house slippers for my kids.

Perhaps next time I frog a sweater I will post a tutorial so you too can frog and harvest yarn from a sweater you no longer need.  This time I just seized the moment and got it done before procrastination creeped up on me.

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I am working on a new challenge for the new year and wanted to run it by you but I did not want to bring it up last week during the commotion of Christmas.  I don’t know about you but my craft stash is out of control and everytime I look at it I feel guilt which keeps me from doing or making anything with it. I never met a craft I didn’t like and you can tell by walking into my creative space.  Last year I lost my wonderful studio loft because my boys needed more room so I was demoted to the garage and while it is a nice big space, I have too much and too little space to put everything away.

I have 3 cabinets FULL of fabric, bins and bins of yarn, wood pegs and wood toys waiting to be painted and created into something else, fabric notions, about 100 tubes of paint, tons of wool and acrylic felt, wool sweaters waiting to be turned into longies or whatever, cases of embroidery floss, zippers, spools of sewing thread, craft books galore, tons of elastic in every color you can think of and worst of all bins and bins of clothing that I want to upcycle or just plain use the fabric from.

and keepin it real, this is just what is not so messy that I can take a picture of it.  To get a accurate picture you need to times this by 5.

I have decided that in 2012 I will do my best to use what I already have and not purchase new supplies until I have used what I have already invested money into.  I think my exception would be if I needed a special trim that I absolutely do not have or if I run of of yarn to finish a project or something like that but for the most part I am going to try and be creative with what I have….kind of like what Laura Wilder would have done.  She didn’t have a gourmet yarn shop or Joanns to shop at afterall.

It would be so great to have some partners to take this challenge with me and keep each other going.  I am thinking I would post whatever projects I have made using my stash materials and provide a linky so you could add yours?  If so what day of the week do you think would be good to post the challenge every week?  It would be like a big stash bashing party every week so I am going to call it Stash Bash!!

Are you in?

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