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Plethora of knits
Thursday, July 21, 2005
In keeping with my desire to avoid purchasing fabric, I've decided to follow up on yesterday's inclination. I'll design garments to suit the stash, as opposed to mining the stash to suit the garment.
Start with the fabric.
My stash has an (over)abundance of knit fabrics at present. Everything from underwear knits to slinky to sweater knits. We won't discuss how this happened, it just did. Neither will we dwell on my desire to sew wovens. That will simply have to be supressed until such time as the stash no longer overflows 5 large plastic bins.
So. What do I need? Dresses. I've been wanting new dresses for quite a while. There's nothing so easy to wear as a dress. You don't have to find anything to match it. You only have to make one garment to have an outfit. If it needs ironing, there's only one piece!
And dresses use a lot of fabric...
Given the way that I always have to make 3 or 4 of every pattern that I draft, I should be through those bins in no time!
I have mostly knits at the moment, too. I can't find any good knits locally so I go crazy on the internet . I might try to make a dress from the BWOF twist top. I wore the top today and really like it (my 2nd try), dh said "did you go shopping again?" Yes, I did, Wal-Mart fabric $1 yard, so my top was $2. I guess I have to recant the local part. I did buy several pieces at Wal-mart in June.
Good luck with your stash reduction.
Lori
Posted by Lori at July 24, 2005 10:12 PM