Never throw anything away!!

[wendywombat]

Well, I don't which is why I am Knee deep in patterns, magazines and finished kits!!

I thought that I had finished with stitching for babies and small people....BUT yesterday I bumped into a friend I hadn't seen for a few months and she's pregnant. I might add that she's in her 20's.
I spent a good hour searching through patterns and charts for one I had stitched for my granddaughter....I could remember the design I wanted but I have So Many tucked away it took until this morning to find The One!
At least I have until May to get it stitched.
Funny thing is I Have passed on all my Baby Knitting Patterns to the charity shops so perhaps I have thrown something I might need out!

[Mabel Figworthy]

You should see the almost fanatical light in DH's eyes when something he has been keeping for years because It Might Come In Handy One Day does actually come in handy
Enjoy your unexpected baby stitching!

[richardandtracy]

I do know the feeling & have had the look more than once...
Not a lot more than once, but more than once.

Good news Wendy. Glad the bump wasn't disturbed by bumping into mum too.

Regards,

Richard.

[Serinde]

I do know the feeling & have had the look more than once...
Not a lot more than once, but more than once.

Good news Wendy. Glad the bump wasn't disturbed by bumping into mum too.

Regards,

Richard.

You and my DH, Richard. The garage is full of TTMBU (things that might be useful) or TTMCIH (things that might come in handy). No car, of course.

[Squirrel]

Well Done on finding it Serinde and I am sure you will enjoy stitching it. I cull my supply of patterns from time to time, a case of having too as this house is already stuffed full of DD & SIL's stashes - and believe me they never throw anything away either of them.

[wendywombat]

I do know the feeling & have had the look more than once...
Not a lot more than once, but more than once.

Good news Wendy. Glad the bump wasn't disturbed by bumping into mum too.

Regards,

Richard.

You and my DH, Richard. The garage is full of TTMBU (things that might be useful) or TTMCIH (things that might come in handy). No car, of course.

We have a double garage.....BUT only room for one car! My D/H him has "stuff" in there that come under both those phrases!!
I think I've said before that when we moved out here I took a lot of my stash to the charity shops (under duress I have to say!) Yet when we arrived here a large box of 'off-cuts' of wood came too! Richard would, of course realise How Useful they would be!!

[richardandtracy]

I do understand. I have large chunks of wood that will be useful one day. But worst of all I have possibly 150kg of aluminium castings to melt, 50kg of aluminium bronze, 100kg of steel plate in thicknesses from 10 to 50mm (3/8" to 2") and a similar volume of aluminium plate. I do get to make stuff with it though. From some of my 25mm aluminium plate I'm making 12 quick change tool holders for my lathe. The base of the holder mount was made with two bits of 25mm thick steel plate.
My biggest problem is harvesting up old tools that may be useful one day. Starting with the smallest:

1. A vacuum pump for degassing moulds,
2. I have a small injection moulding machine (size of a benchtop drill press) for moulding articles up to 50mm across,
3. A floor standing pillar drill with a solid steel, 3" diameter pillar.
4. An industrial sewing machine (for when I want to make sails for the boat I've given up on building),
5. A 4ft throat scroll saw weighing 75 kg.
6. A 2ft x 18" master surface table and stand (weighing slightly less than 100kg)
7. And most useless of all: a 250kg fly press that can apply a load of 6 tonnes. This has been useful once - bending a 50mm x 6mm thick steel strap I attached to the trolley I was making to move the fly press.

Regards,

Richard.

[agi]

I am like that with fabrics, ever since I discovered patchwork. I have become crazy about saving all the bits and pieces. Took me two weeks to sort them all out.

[Podolyanka]

I am the only person in the family who throws everything away. The funniest thing is that those things may sit idling for quite a long time, but the moment they are gone someone suddenly needs them. Reputation is everything. Even if I did not throw something away, and am helping to look for it, they suspect it disappeared not without my participation. But most of the "maybe some day they will be needed" things are never needed, let alone their disappearing noticed.

[wendywombat]

About 10 years after we moved here I found a large box that hadn't been unpacked!!
As I obviously hadn't missed the contents and after a quick glance inside, I threw it all out! There was one cake tin I rescued from it first. The rest was binned.

[rcperryls]

I had a friend who moved fairly often because of her job. When she would pack up for a move, any boxes that had remain unopened since her last move were tossed without opening them on the theory that she couldn't have needed or missed what was in them. If I had been as diligent as she was, I wouldn't have an overflowing attic with boxes and cartons of things that I either vaguely know what is in them, or don't have a clue.

Carole

[richardandtracy]

I was an army brat. At least half of my toys got thrown away every time my parents moved, and we moved lots. I went to boarding school in the UK while they were in Germany, and they moved during term time - I never saw one house they moved to, it wasn't suitable, and they moved in and out during the time I was in the UK - so I never got any say about what was saved. I am in my 17th house now, 3rd since 1988 when I got my own place. I vowed never to do the same to my kids. Net result is the kids rarely see their bedroom floor, so I'm not sure that answers either.

Regards,

Richard.

[Serinde]

I moved twice as a child, and I could still draw you the plan of my first (and favourite) home. My boys have lived in the same house in the same village all their lives, and I'm glad we've been able to do that for them. Everyone's circumstances are different, of course. We have storage boxes full of Duplo and Lego, and K'nex, Brio trains in the attic. And (filthy) stuffed animals in bags. Next summer is the Great Animal Wash! Then they'll either be stored (as they aren't mine, after all) or found new homes.

[poppy]

The funniest thing is that those things may sit idling for quite a long time, but the moment they are gone someone suddenly needs the

That happened quite a few times to me too.

Wendy, there are lots of lovely free patterns for babies on Ravelry. One of my favourite is : Newborn Top-Down Cardigan
by Nancy Pietraszek. No sewing the sleeves! Another one is : Little Coffee Bean Cardigan
by Elizabeth Smith

[wendywombat]

Thanks Helene, I have an account with Revelry so I can look tomorrow.