Stash-busting Baby Stuffs

It would seem that I'm quite behind on posting some things.  Like these adorable baby sweaters.  I found a couple really quick / easy crochet patterns and I was aiming to do some stash busting - so off I went.

These came together really quickly and the finished product is pretty darn nice if I do say so myself.

Moogly Sweater - is cute, but not terribly practical for winter.  I think if I were to do this again - they do say that a sleeveless version is nice too - so that's where I'd be headed with this one.  For me, this one came out a bit tight and a bit small.  I made the newborn size, so I'm hoping that it will fit a newborn?  (I don't know these things).

Looks like a watermelon!

Baby Bumpy Sweater - hey, look!  A sweater for a boy that actually looks like it's for a boy!  WOO!  Came together very easy, the bumps are the easiest way I've ever seen to make bobbles AND it's darn cute!  Only complaint on this one is that the back seam is not particularly nice.  I figured out how to make it look less blech about halfway through and at the moment I have no idea what it is.  I think I decided not to count the ch3 as part of the sts and then still did a dc in the same st (just have to be careful that you're not increasing every row when you do this!)

I did miss doing a collar as I ran out of yarn

Those bobbles look awesome.

So, please forgive me for being a couple months behind on posting these.  Apparently I finished them at the beginning of December.

Stash Monster

It's official, my craft-room / office cannot survive any longer as a craft room / office and it must learn to exist in a state that is more craft room less office.  So I've been revamping the space.  It still needs to be able to hold my financial files, but it needs to look less like WW3 happened inside my teeny tiny little space.

I've been trying to simplify furnishings and make more storage space without adding clutter and while, in fact, REMOVING clutter.  The desk I've had since I was a child is going back to its original home (ie. my parents' house) and I've bought a very plain craft table with no drawers and a filing cabinet to be its replacements.  I know, two pieces of furniture instead of one, but I'm hoping it will work out for the best.

So far it's looking like a bomb went off in my craft room AND living room.  I might have the smallest room in the house - it would make a nice office - as my craft room so in order to clean up and purge, I've been pulling everything out the door into my living room.  My husband loves this.  Or at least he tolerates it.  Well, he hasn't complained yet.

Anyhow, so I tried to better organize my stash.  That worked out great - except - holy stash!  I really need to use some of that up.  WOW!  I didn't realize I had so much in there and it's kind of frightening what I've purchased and put aside.  Anyone feeling a stash-ghan?  Yeah, me too.

The stash has grown into a monster of epic proportions.  I'm reminded of Winnie the Pooh - how "under the bed" had so much stuff in it that it had morphed into it's own land of scary and forgotten things.  Yep, that's my stash.

Somewhat more organized
Stash-Monster!!!