Fabric Purge

Well, I have had every intention of posting my thoughts on the new Vogue patterns and I have also had every intention of starting a muslin of a marfy blouse pattern.  But, well intentions aren’t good enough are they?

Instead I have been playing in my stash.  After the Monday cleanout, I carried everything a step or two further.    In that box in my closet,  I found this knit, and much as it initially pained me, I realized that I am just not going to sew it up.  I know what I wanted to make but it will not look good on me so the fabric sits, and sits and …., well you know how it goes.  And yet I hadn’t been able to bring myself to let it go.

But then I was reading several threads on Stitcher’s Guild about stash storage eliminating dead wood from the stash and this made me think about some of these fabrics that are just sitting here, fabrics in colors I once would have worn, but probably won’t any more, and I thought that perhaps they could find better homes.  And then I thought about the Artisan’s Square Marketplace and and the benefit auction that Marji  so generously set up, that I thought this might be a good place to offer up a few fabrics.

As I looked through the index cards that summarize my fabric collection I immediately latched on to a collection of camel fabrics.  Now camel is not a color I am going to wear.  For years, when people thought I was an autumn I might have worn camel, but I never really did, only as a neutral and then I mixed other colors with it.  But I thought I "should" wear camel, and I had been well brainwashed into doing what I thought I "should" be doing.  It was not hard to find beautiful camel fabrics which I loved, still love in fact, even though I will not wear the garments made from them.

So I offered up a few.  For the most part they are fine European Wools, but there are a few other things mixed in, mostly camels and beiges but again, I have had my misguided plans as well so there is a piece of polar fleece that took up a huge space on my shelf.    You can see the goods here: Mardel’s fabric auctions.  Take a look, it is for a good cause, and the fabrics are nice too.

And the nice space cleared by the polar fleece alone has given me space to store the fabrics I bought on sale from  Lucy’s fabrics  and Textile Studio over New Year’s weekend.

I promise to discuss patterns soon, because I think this is a good crop.