moving into fall

I have managed to unpack all the fabric I purchased in San Francisco and integrate it into my fabric collection.  At the same time I managed to move the summer fabrics out of the active stash and back into the collection, keeping some of the new fabrics, as well as some old friends, for more imminent projects.

One of the projects that has remained in my mind revolves around the green challis skirt made last year and reconfigured this year.    I still have the wool which was intended to be a coordinating jacket:

I believe the new silk band on the skirt really makes the reds in this skirt pop and the combination works even better with the jacket fabric now than it did before.  I am really looking forward to making up this fabric this season.

This second photo is the silk that I had put aside for the lining of the jacket.  You see that it also picks up colors in the skirt, but does not quite coordinate with the silk band on the skirt.  I may still use it as a lining, or I may put it aside.  I need to do a little playing around with fabrics and styles yet before I make a final determination on this. 

I do know that I want more of the silk charmeuse that I used on the skirt, and that I do not have enough.  I sent a swatch off to Britex last week and just received a call, after I started writing this post, that they do indeed still have that silk in stock and will be sending me some more.  I am thinking of using the silk to make a coordinating blouse to wear with the skirt, or even perhaps to use the silk as a part of the jacket as well, tying all the pieces together. 

Once I had the skirt and jacket fabric together and started thinking further about using the silk, I immediately recalled this Marfy jacket:

At the moment I am thinking of using the tweed for the jacket with the silk charmeuse for the trim.  I don’t know if I will add an additional trim or not.  I had originally planned to make a longer jacket with the fabric and if I do not, I may have enough extra to make a simple pencil skirt as well.

AT first I wondered if this jacket would be a little too precious with this skirt, but I am inclining more and more toward going ahead every day.  I will have to make a muslin first, which will help me also check out the proportions and styles to see how they go together. 

Strangely enough I must have had wines and pinks on the brain because a fair number of the fabrics I purchased at Stone Mountain and Daughter also coordinate with the rose tones in the green skirt:

and I seem to have developed an entire rose/wine/plum/green collection for fall.

Most of the fabrics are fairly light-to-mid weight; cottons, rayons, and very light weight wools.  I am still anticipating that it will be a while before I will need to break out the heavy duty woolens.

In that vein I also put together a collection centered on blues, grays, and blue-teals.  This one is basically inspired by several Japanese cottons and then evolved from there:

As you see, there is plenty to keep me busy. 

And I still have knits on the cutting table that I did not finish this summer.  They are mostly long-sleeved tops so they still have plenty of wear opportunities this year.  So it is probably time to stop fondling the fabric and start cutting and sewing.