To pass the time during the nights, accomplish skill training, and work towards this achievement at the same time, I have been making plant fibre hats and then scrapping them once the inventory is full. It has the following benefits:
1) It boosts your Tailoring skill, allowing you to make better quality items over time. As well, the damage resistance and environmental resistance of the items you make gradually improve. So if you end up in a tight spot and the only resource you have is plant fibre or cloth, you'll be glad you did this.
2) As you boost your Tailoring skill, you make progress toward increasing your level, which gives you skill points that you can use to buy useful things such as leatherworking, steelsmithing, and so on. As well, you can repair cloth things with less loss of quality.
3) Each item you scrap also counts towards items crafted. So when I make 24 hats and scrap them, that counts as 48 towards the achievement.
4) Plant fibre is a cheap and abundant resource. Even better, when you scrap the hat, you receive back 3 plant fibres, and it only costs 5 to make in the first place. You can squeeze maximum use out of them and preserve your wood and stone for more useful things.