Stash. Own up if you have any stash of any sort

NanaandGrampy the problem with needing just one more ball of yarn during lockdown is that you can't just pop to the shops, you have to order online.
To save postage you have to order a minimum amount and then there are special offers...
And so the stash grows

Some younger people are collecting vintage china, Revolucion.
Weddings are off at the moment but I now of at least two brides last year who were collecting it to use at the reception.
Tea shops?

Re collecting china, a wedding we attended last summer served afternoon tea after the ceremony - all in pretty, mismatched china from charity shops - the simple garden flowers were in teapots on the tables.
It was beautifully done, the tables looked lovely.
(There were bottles of wine on the tables too!)

Yes, mismatched is the fashion.
An eclectic collection is the posh term, I think!

Anything creative is very interesting and wonderful to look back at as the years go bye

I have pretty notebooks and decorative boxes made of all sorts of material - I love a box!

Oh yes I’ve lots of stash’s mainly books, which I read and re read, although I have then neatly away in bookcases can’t bear to part with them

I have piles of interesting notebooks and plenty of decorative boxes - I do love a nice box

Sorry thought first post hadn’t gone through

I’ve arranged for the trendy royal Albert tea sets of China to go to an animal rescue charity!
Destash points to me! I’m thrilled because they are going to come and collect it tomorrow which is so convenient.

Well done!

Hearing aid batteries - box of - lovely audiologist let me have them ‘just in case’ - how prescient ?

French Silk Dyes and a dozen large bottles of acrylic paint.
loads of books including "In search of lost time" by Proust ( in
English). Many CDs mostly Jazz some classical.

Sewing room full of huge fabric stash, machines, haberdashery etc, huge crate of knitting wool, box of embroidery stuff, cases of watercolour paints and brushes and boxes of acrylic and oil paints in garage. I'm never bored.

Today I’ve seen someone else’s brilliant - and very simple - idea for using up my vast multicoloured stash of DK. Or most of it, anyway. It’ll have to wait until I’ve finished all current projects though - maybe another 3 months.
Then it’ll be time to start accumulating a whole new one! ?

I'm wondering what the brilliant and simple idea is, Witzend

It’s a blanket, @Callistemon - all in garter stitch, more or less random 2 row stripes - in my case that’s going to be about 47 different colours, not that I’ve actually counted.
So apart from changing colours every 2 rows, nice easy brainless knitting in front of the telly. ?

I did wonder about sewing in all those ends, but I shall probably just knot them and make a fringe. Shall make it in 4 rectangles I think. I haven’t seen a pattern, just someone else’s pic.

It’ll be for Gdcs, since they do like something to snuggle under and it’ll be late autumn if not winter by the time it’s done. That’s assuming it turns out looking passable, of course, and not a candidate for the UFO bin.

Ah! I've been crocheting blankets supposedly from the stash but just kept needing another colour! Yesterday I spent the whole afternoon sewing in ends on one I just finished.
I resolved that the last one will be a complete mishmash of leftovers, then I'll knit something for me.

A whole afternoon stitching in ends, @Callistemon, while your poor old wise men and shepherds etc. are still languishing in forlorn, unloved bits? They’re going to need therapy soon, I do worry about them!

I look at them occasionally and talk to them, Witzend, they are very snug in their nice bag. I should block them.

I've got an assortment of tea pots in various sizes, I wouldn't call them a stash exactly, I do like them displayed on my kitchen shelves, a couple were presents. Strangely I actually prefer coffee, but not so many cafetieres only the three!

I confess.
I have a stash of tiny knitted pieces which are waiting to be sewn together to make a Nativity scene.

One stash I don’t have enough of is stuffing. I thought I had loads for stuffing a large C-word item this morning - he’s supposed to measure 33 cm round both body and head, but he’s only measuring about 29, just not fat enough, b*gger it, so I’ve just ordered two big bags.

Was hoping to finish him today, so on with something else instead - just as well I’ve got a few things on the go.

So true Callistemon and even worse, I always have leftovers that aren’t quite enough on their own lol !

Hurrah, I finished off a cardigan for DGD, sewed on the buttons as well, it's washed and pinned out on the blocking board. Will she wear it? I will stick up to making blankets.
That's two things finished this week.
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