I have found that one of the best ways to quell the desire to hit “Buy It Now” on an eBay fabric noting is to go upstairs and check out what’s still patiently waiting for me in my fabric stash. stuff like this, for instance:
That’s expected to be a big 50s shirtdress. Someday. For now, it’s waiting patiently in a big pile (which is why it’s so wrinkly).
This, below, is also expected to be a shirtdress. I have, as longtime readers of this blog will know, an practically pathological attachment to the color “hot canine mustard.” (Good thing that there isn’t that much hot-dog-mustard fabric made.) I purchased this fabric in LA in January, I think:
This fabric was going to be the border of a Duro that I haven’t made yet. Not sure if I will make it, and now there’s only about three yards of this:
Same thing with this: parts of a Duro that has not yet come to be:
I purchased this fabric because it’s a good heavy weight and I thought it would make a good skirt. I ought to probably work this up this weekend, as it’s a good pattern for summer:
This I *can’t wait* to sew — I purchased it at Joann’s, of all places (nonUSians: JoAnn’s is a huge chain store that lately has been much more crafty than fabric-y). When I was having it cut (I purchased everything left on the bolt, natch, about six yards) four people came up to me and asked me what I was going to make. “A *BIG* dress,” I said. Of course, I am still trying to find the ideal “BIG DRESS” pattern for this. and deciding what to line it with. I want pale gray batiste, which I don’t think exists (or at least, doesn’t exist at a price I’m prepared to pay, and I’m not going to dye white batiste, either).
This last is probably my favorite of everything imagined here. I just can’t figure out what it ought to be. I purchased it thinking “skirt!” but now I think it really wants to be a dress. I don’t have enough for a full-skirted dress, and I’m concerned about matching those strong horizontal lines across a narrow paneled skirt. I think I’ll have to do a wiggle dress, but then there’s the knotty question of pockets … it’s a good durable fabric with good stretch, though, so if I just buckle down and DO IT, it will be amazingly wearable and sunny …
So that’s what’s hanging out in my fabric stash, clamoring to be made … and keeping me from purchasing much more fabric online!
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