Planning Some Decluttering this Year?

Yesterday I told you about some knitalongs to help you pare down your stash in 2020, but if you also need to do some decluttering of your yarn and other craft supplies, I’ve got a resource for that, too.

I recently wrote an ebook called How to Declutter Your Craft Supplies, and it’s all about thoughtfully going through your crafty stash so you can keep what you really need, like and want to use and get rid of the rest to make way for more creativity.

It covers mindset issues, a vision for your crafty space, how to go through specific types of crafty materials, what to do with the things you don’t want to keep and more. And of course there are project ideas, too.

I truly believe this is information that can change people’s crafty lives. You’ll know what you have and be able to find it, and it will help you to get more making done because you only have stuff you’re really excited to make with.

The ebook is $10 and you can buy it here. I hope you’ll check it out and let me know what you struggle with when it comes to decluttering craft supplies or paring down you stash.

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It’s well known (among knitters, anyway) that knitters seem to love chickens as a motif and a subject of our knitting projects. The Emotional Support Chicken and all the other chicken knitting patterns are just the beginning of our devotion to farmyard friends.

For example, there’s Farmer Dennis’ Chicken Hat. This free pattern from Stacy Black is a simple worsted weight beanie sized for adults and decorate with a couple of little rounds of colorwork fences and a flock of chickens strutting around the body of the hat.

You don’t need a lot of any of the colors for the chickens, their facial features or the fences, so this is a great project for using little leftover bits from other projects. The main color for the body of the hat is less than a skein using the yarn suggested, so you might just have everything you need in your house to start stitching up this hat right away.

The colorwork is presented as a chart, with a 16 stitch section that repeats around the body of the hat. All the color changes are shown on the chart but I think it would be easier to knit the whole chicken in the chicken color and add the eye, beak and other features using duplicate stitch when the knitting is done. That way you don’t have to carry those yarns around the whole hat for just a few stitches.

As the name suggests, the original hat was given to a farmer who shared their eggs, but anyone who raises chickens or just has a thing for the fowl is sure to love this cute hat. It wouldn’t be too difficult for someone new to stranded knitting or reading charts to make, either, so if that’s you, give it a try.

The pattern is available for free on Ravelry.

[Photo: Stacy Black]

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