As much as
I like to support small businesses it can be pretty expensive to buy their
patterns from/in Germany if the patterns aren’t available as PDF. International
shipping can be high or if they are sold here (I found this German pattern shop
a few weeks ago, they carry a lot of independent designers) the retail price can
be pretty high. Meaning, if there is a PDF option I usually go for it.
I had
totally forgotten about the sew-along announced together with the release. The
happier I was when I read about it in the last posts over at sewaholic.net. So
far I’ve never participated in one and I thought to myself, I’m going to sew
the blouse anyway, so why not grab the opportunity and sew-along with others.
So I’m in! What about you? It will start May 26th, so there is still time to
prepare if you want to join!
Before I
present my fabric choices, I haven’t decided, yet, there is something fabric
related I’ve got to confess.
A few weeks
ago I was searching through my fabric stash for a certain fabric. I couldn’t
find it. But what I found were at least three fabric pieces I had totally
forgotten about. I’ve usually a good memory so this took me a little by
surprise and made me realize: I definitively need an inventory and no more
fabric for at least 5 months (at the beginning of October there will be a
fabric market in town, I can’t make myself to resist) unless it will help to
reduce my stash and is needed to make a specified garment, let’s say like a
lining. The moment I hit the publish button it’s out there and can’t be taken
back. Hopefully this puts enough pressure on me to resist future tempting
fabric offers. You are allowed to look down on me, if I fail.
What’s
about you, how do you stash? Not at all, neatly organized or have you given up
and accepted that you are an uncontrolled fabric hoarder? Tell me, what works
best for you?
So,
respecting my fabric purchase ban, I went stash shopping and found two possible
options, both non-stretchy (can one say that or what is the correct term?) jerseys
with a lot (too much ???) drape. No. 1 a pretty thin jersey in white, blue,
green and brown.
No. 2 a grey
jersey with millions of shoes printed on.
Which one
would you pick? Stay tuned for my decision.
Thanks for stopping by, Kat
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