To keep buying crafting supplies?!

As a bookworm who comes home from the library with ten books and has to return many I say just enjoy the ride!!!!

Op I'm just like you! I have a massive amount of jewellery making supplies, acrylics, water colours, gouache, metallic versions of acrylic and watercolours! Diamond art kits. Felting kits. Sewing supplies and yarn! Ive been meaning to learn crochet for years but never got around to it! Ive been retired coming up 2 years and haven't touched any of it! Mainly due to being much busier than I thought I would be! After doing a course in January of this year, I had lino tools and mandala tools in my Amazon basket for ages! I have progressed to putting them in the save for later section!

I had 6m of fabric delivered just this morning 😀

Earlier this week I had a coverstitch machine delivered. Utter joy!

Now I crochet more than sew, the 'stash building' is much better. I tend to only buy with a project in mind. Random yarn doesn't have the same appeal to me as pretty fabric.

I do need some projects to use the part balls of yarn that are accumulating though!

😂 This is me OP. I collect fabric, buttons, cotton, anything to do with sewing. I look around charity shops, flea markets etc and love it. I have bought these amazing model shops. One is a coffee house, bookshop, florist. I think i will get around to making them but at the moment they are sitting in my bedroom. Probably be un-opened until I retire. 😀 I make bunting when I get a chance and been told I should sell it but make it for family and friends as presents. Make it for children's bedrooms, etc. I am nursing so dont get alot of free time but I have always had a passion for anything to do with crafting, sewing and buy different projects. Made some little animals with felt. I am like a kid in a candy shop when I pop into my local fabric, craft shop.

You should sell your art or give away as presents. I bet people would love your work. I also just bought cookie cutters and have a the grand idea of making cookies, decorating them and give them as little gifts. I get it OP. It helps me to unwind and love my hobby.

Agree. I’ve now got so much paper and stuff that I’ve collected to use with my Cricut machine.

I’ve spilled out of my craft room now, and am spreading hobby stuff across the kitchen table. I need to get a grip before it takes over the whole house.

Find a hobby and stick with- the only concerning aspect of your story is the fact you never stick with anything- if you are a sewer having a substantial fabric stash is normal, same with knitting and a yarn stash, however cluttering up the cupboards with expensive equipment and supplies you used very briefly and will never use again means you have a problem.

I have soo many crafting supplies.
I've tried my hand at knitting, crochet, clay crafts, jewellery making, sewing, sketching, painting, macrame, acrylic pouring, resin crafts, knitting loom, cross stitch, needle felting to name a few, I'm sure I've missed some 😳
I craft therefore I hoard.

I knit. I have a huge wool collection.

I can crochet a granny square and find it relaxing to make them on car journeys because the husband insists on doing most of the driving.

I have a wonderful collections of notebooks and pens. Lately, I discovered disposable fountain pens.

I do plan to write a family history for each son in a notebook with a nice pen...

Ha ha you sound like me. Although I do finish stuff. I made my own wedding invites which turned into card craft.
Baking, cookie decorating. cake pops and all stuff like that.
I make my own candles and wax melt. (room spray and diffusers are something I want to try)
I make soap and bath bombs and fragrances bath salts. Mud masks.
my sister bought me a clay pottery set for my birthday so I can’t wait to try that. I’d love a wheel.
Basically if I see a craft, I want to master it.
I’ve done book folding which I loved but it was very time consuming.

edit because I forgot about sewing! I’ve made a lot of going out clothes. I honestly thought I’d make stuff for my daughter but haven’t had the time.

i am still entirely unsure what you do with one of those!

I have a yarn habit. I also have a fancy notebook habit. I am not ashamed🤣🤣

Absolutely nothing wrong with that.

Or with having quilling (not quilting) supplies, more balls of yarn than anyone could reasonably crochet with, air dry clay (unused so far), resin and moulds (ditto), sewing machine and many bags of fabric, acrylic paints, floristry supplies, beads/embroidery silks/ jewellery making supplies and equipment and still putting watercolours and brushes on an Amazon wish list... (to go with the watercolour paper I have in the shed that my mother used and I kept 'just in case')

A few years ago I used up almost all my stash in one massive blanket, mainly done in half trebles. I used my biggest hook & usually 3 yarns at a time.

Now, of course, the stash is building up again.

Funnily enough my ds has left to got to uni and we’ve been emptying out his room of 25 years of assorted cables, old drawing pads etc and I was just thinking that I’d like a hobby. Maybe though it’ll be a slippery slope from rug making to yoghurt weaving (joke) I have been looking at looms on eBay though, and harps.

Tell me about it! Half my spare bedroom is taken up with resin, resin moulds, all the add ins, such as tiny little doughnuts, sweets, sequins, glitter, coffee cups. I see cute stuff and I buy it. I watch endless videos and see beautiful creations, yet I never get mine right!!! I must have £600+ of stuff in there! I seriously need to get some things made when the weather gets warmer! I feel your pain @CraftyClaraChaos

Nah you’re good! Carefully not looking at my yarn stash and diamond art stash, intentionally not learning quilting!

YANBU, as long as you get some enjoyment out of it. I hear you as it's difficult to know what to do with creative crafting output. Inflicting it on other people needs some serious consideration before doing so, lol, but your cards sound fine! Do it.

This is so me, I can't stop. I've recently subscribed to a magazine again, yet I hardly make anything in them. I'm just oh look at this.

Same! 😂

Exactly! Craft stashing will always and forever be entirely justified since lockdown. Obviously I have had to rebuild to pre-pandemic levels and a bit more just in case.

I was also a serial craft starter... just dabble here and there now, finishing off some projects.

My MIL did some beautiful crafts, she has dementia now and is in a nursing home, we had to clear her house for sale there was over £20,000 worth (when bought) of craft stuff. All damp, ruined in her old decrepit house.

It made me rethink, so now I am finishing my 2018 advent cross stitch... but I will have to change the year at the bottom.

Some knitters have such impressive yarn stashes that arrangements have been made about what will happen to said stash when they die.

Crafting activities are ALWAYS the answer: relaxing, mindful, creative, anxiety-reducing, gift-producing, time-filling…

Picture of your work please OP - not for judgment just appreciation of someone creatively doing what they love