Something Different ?

Happy New year to all you lovely people, I hope that 2016 is the best year ever for you.

I don't make New Year's resolutions for the simple reason I never follow them through, but I do reflect back and think about how I can make the next year better.  That includes my blog and every other aspect of my life.

This past year hasn't been a great one blog wise for the simple reason I haven't had as much time to devote to it because of ill health.  I have also been disillusioned by the number of followers that have decided to stop following, in fact a couple of weeks ago I saw the count go down from 680 to 669  in one day!.  It made me read over my last post very carefully to see if I had said something to offend but there was nothing in that post or any other that I could see would cause offence.  It shouldn't bother me but to be honest it did.

That lead me to remove my followers gadget if people want to follow they can still do so by using bloglovin or by email.

I then had to decide where this blog was going, I started blogging to keep a record of the number of charity makes I had done and when I found that people were interested and actually read what I'd written I expanded the information to include pattern sources and any helpful information.

Then came the stashbusting success, everyone has stash  and usually far too much. Stash busting for Stashaholics was introduced to encourage you all to think carefully before buying yarn and to bust some of the stash in your possession so that it didn't reach mammoth proportions.

So many of you have linked up your stash busting creations to the stash link parties inspiring fellow Stashaholics with idea's of how to use up some of their own stash and remember stash can take on many forms it's not just yarn it can be embroidery floss, material or anything you have in excess to feed your hobby.

The best results by far have been for those who have taken the trouble to weigh in every month so that I can keep a record of how much they have busted throughout the year. Look at these totals...

SSPat
2013..... 11604 grams
2014.....11818 grams
2015.....11851 grams 
That = 552.73 balls/skeins of yarn! 

Pat A
2013... 33650
2014...42644
2015...51424
That = 1277.18 balls/skeins of yarn!!

I think that is amazing, my totals are no where near that, but by weighing in you can see how much you have used and don't feel too guilty about buying more because you know that it will be used eventually. You can see more totals here.

The beauty about knitting/crocheting/sewing for charity is that usually you can make whatever your heart desires because a home can almost always invariably be found for your makes, so it goes arm in arm with stashbusting you need a fair amount of stash to keep up with your workload.

I have been asked  by many of you and some of the ladies from Loving Hands to continue with the stash-busting theme and I'm happy to do that by providing stashbusting idea's and keeping a record of your monthly stash-busting totals if you would like me too.

As for the stash link party I'm undecided, I think rather than have a monthly party it may turn into a weekly one called Stashbusting Sunday, I'm still toying with the idea please tell me what you think.

So really this post is to determine how much interest there is and find out who would like to join me for another year of stash busting....

this years stash-busters so far...

SSPat
Barbara P
Pat A
Barbara
Janet
Libby
Jacqui
Meganv
Flutemouse
Sheri
mrsmp