Stash Bash

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?