Design by Nine

This is a Clean Fabric Closet!

Bree and I cleaned, sorted,grouped, measured, folded, and tagged all of the fabric that I own that is over one yard. We rolled everything that was under a yard. AND in the process we made a (oooh!oooh!) sew into clothes right now pile. ( Do we hire out? Yes. Are we expensive? VERY.) lol
We sorted through all of my patterns and matched the right now fabric to the right now patterns. That was tough. Decisions , decisions.
It was a serious amount of work. But worth every minute!
We cut, altered, and of course drafted new patterns like crazy women and then set to sewing our new fall wardrobe. Well, part of a wardrobe at least.


Just a sample of what we were up to.







Notice the fold lines on the cream skirt.

Nothing too fancy. Just shell type shirts, blouses, cozy fit pants and skirts. Lots of skirts.
We are still in the middle of the ooooh!oooh! Right now sewing, but at this rate we will be finished soon.
It feels just fabulous to be sewing this fabric into something to wear. Some of this fabric has just been purchased. Others, like the cream skirt fabric has been waiting a loooooong time to be made into a skirt. I have had this cream fabric for years. I have washed and ironed it probably a dozen times. I promised myself the last time I was stuffing it back in the fabric closet, that the next time I washed and pressed this fabric, it would be some type of clothing. This time..... I just made it into a straight skirt. As you can see I only pressed the seams. Hahaha.

Most of you have a fabric stash, some of you are full blown fabriholics, I am somewhere in between. No matter where you fall on the fabric hoarding scale, do yourself the favor of keeping your stash organized. It really makes a difference. All of that sorting and folding was almost like fabric shopping! Only better because it was already paid for!

Hey, what are we doing still sitting here? Come on... Lets go sew!

P.S. THANKS BREE!!!