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Stash Bash

By on August 9, 2012 in Knits and Crochet, Sewing and Crafts, 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 for your comments and emails yesterday.  I do not know what is going on with the comments section of my blog but I am trying to fix it.

This week, my stash bash project is a baby blanket but…its not for my baby.  Poppa came home a few nights ago and asked me if I could make him a gift for one of his employees who is having a little baby boy.  I looked at her registry and noticed that she liked fluffy, furry blankets.  I immediately remembered that in one of those bags of fabric I packed up to sell and declutter my fabric shelves was some blue minky which I have had for over 5 years since someone asked me to make them something minky.  I have never had a use for it because I prefer natural fibers.  I was so happy to find a use for it and I found some cute and funky alien flannel to go with it.  Now, I need to pull out that organic sherpa fabric to make a blankey or two for my own little one.

I also started some cozies for some mason jars that will hold salves and things like hair brushes and baby things in the nursery.  Once I know exactly what will go inside of each one I will embroider a label to go on the front.

I have been planning a renovation of a small room off of my bedroom that I want to use as a new nursery and had the work planned for today but unfortunately we had a big problem here on our farm and had to use alot of our reserve funds to fix it (more on that horrible day tomorrow).  I am hoping we can still get it done somehow before the baby comes but we will have to see and I keep reminding myself that my baby will not care about the decorated nursery, all the baby will care about are the arms that will hold and comfort.  This keeps me from crying over the whole event.  I am kind of picky about how things are when I bring a new baby into our home and I had what was the perfect room to me all planned out and when things don’t go my way, it is hard for me to get over it.  God has a lot of work to do on me.

So what have you been up to? I love to see what you come up with. I have added the Mr Linky to the bottom of this post for you to link up your Stash Bash projects.

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?     

P.S.  Its so nice to hear from other stash bashers so if you visit some of the links don’t forget to leave them a quick little comment.

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 August 2, 2012 in Sewing and Crafts

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 needed to reorganize my laundry room which had become a catch all place full of canning rings, lost socks and collapsed towers of canning jars.  I quickly reorganized it but ended feeling like I needed a better way to store all of my canning rings and seals (I need to come up with a craft to use these, they multiply faster than the bunnies in the garden).  

I’ve had these bags (I call them embroidery hoop bags, clever I know) on my to do list for probably over two years.  They can be made to pretty much any size depending on the embroidery ring and I still have to put on a an embroidered label on them but have not had any quiet hand sewing time this week.  I love them!


Please excuse the lighting in these pictures.  There is absolutely no natural lighting in my laundry room since it sits in between the kitchen and the dining room and is as dark as a cave.


I used fabrics that I have long loved for the outside and on the inside I used some fabric salvaged from a vintage bedsheet.  The loop to hang it is not even sewn on just sandwiched tightly between the fabric bag and the ring and it holds without a problem.  I’m not sure how I will be able to hang it on the clothesline yet but I will figure that out soon.


While I am at it, I thought I would give you a quick little tour of my tiny laundry room.  I want to do something with this room but it always gets left for last.  This si the room where I obviously store my preserves, extra mason jars, canning equipment, cleaning rags, my birdseye hand towels (which are actually just diaper flats and so soft to use, which I have thought of embellishing but never get around to).  The ice cream machine, wheat grinder, popcorn machine etc.

So what have you been up to? I love to see what you come up with. I have added the Mr Linky to the bottom of this post for you to link up your Stash Bash projects.


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?     

P.S.  Its so nice to hear from other stash bashers so if you visit some of the links don’t forget to leave them a quick little comment.   

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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