Not really, but I was running out of sewing puns. (Please send me all your good ons for future use.)

I had run into a snag with my sewing. Yesterday while sewing doll clothes to go to my office, a coil on my regular zig zag foot got stuck in my fabric and completely uncoiled! I can’t get it back on and the Husband has declared it dead. Luckily, there’s a friendly quilting store down the road that carries my brand and was more than happy to sell me a new one. I did find out that I have another foot that I can use pretty interchangeably and doesn’t have a lovely wire coil waiting to be snagged on thread, so that’s good news.

The doll clothes are the cutest things, by the way. Semi-addicting too, because it takes only about 10 minutes to sew them up and I can use up a bunch of my scraps.

So far, I have made four pairs of pants, two dresses, two shirts, and a jacket.

I decided not to feel silly about it, although it’s still a little silly, because it means I am using up scraps and when I am able to make them very well, I can list them on Etsy.

So that’s what I did the last few times I have been sewing. I have been doing a lot of organization and have put myself on a fabric ban for a bit. Unless it is something I do not have, or cannot snag from my MIL’s stash or a friend’s, and I absolutely need it to finish a project.

K and I went to the discount fabric store yesterday, which is why I currently have no place to put anything. I do have plans for almost everything I bought though. The lady who is the cutting person is quite charmed by K and I as we name all the fabrics and tease each other about buying more fabrics. She also told us when she was almost through my fabrics that our friendship was “beautiful” and we had “very lovely tastes.” 🙂

I found these solids for shirts. The peach will be a camisole to wear under lighter colored shirts, or to sleep in and the sage green will be a nice basic tshirt. I have lots of patterned bottoms with not enough tops to wear with them. The white is a nice cotton lycra blend for linings. It’s much lighter than my current cotton lycra. The mint is a floaty cotton gauze which will be an adorable little summer skirt. K bought a blue version of the same material and we’ll have to wear them in the summer somewhere.

I did try to branch out of my blue palette, but it didn’t completely work. I ended up with a lovely selection of blue fabrics. The floral on the end is a very lovely chiffon, which may be a kimono for the summer. The next fabric was super interesting and I wasn’t sure exactly what to use it for, but the colors sucked me in. I’m thinking possibly a lined spring coat. I think it’s peachskin. It’s slightly fuzzy, no stretch, and feels like the other labeled peachskin I bought from Joann’s a while ago.

The denim look floral one, you can definitely blame K for. She talked me into it. (Okay, it didn’t take that much convincing.) That one will be a cute sundress and the other floral will be a sweater with white sleeves. I haven’t picked which pattern yet. The blue and white floral is quite thick and is a double knit, so very cozy as well.

The blue circle lace is going to be an overlay on top of a cute little pleaty skirt. The green lace is going to be part of a mermaid dance costume. It will be probably for next October, if I do Ooky Spooky again. I’m going to dance a veil piece to Saint-Seans “The Aquarium.”

The white lace will be a little short sleeved cardi, or possibly a cropped cardi. I have some of the purple lace already, but got another yard and a half, just to be sure. The purple lining (not pictured) worked perfectly and will look much better than the grey I had previously picked out.

I had a very nice lady ask me if she could match the lining to the purple lace and then if there was enough of it that she could have just a yard of it. She makes doll clothes. I told her that I was going to make a dress out of the purple lace that I had at home already, but was nervous to cut it, and she kindly came back before she left to suggest I make a muslin before cutting into it. I thanked her and told her I hadn’t found quite the right pattern yet, but would definitely be making a muslin. She was very sweet.

This olive green was an attempt to get out of the blues and will be a maxi style dress for spring and summer. I have four yards of it, a nice rayon blend, I think. It was in the designer overstock boxes. Most of my fabrics from this haul came from those boxes. You don’t get to cut those fabrics, you have to take the whole thing. Not that either of us were complaining. I’m pretty sure there were lots of gleeful giggles.

Speaking of dresses, the three black pieces were also in the designer boxes and are destined to become little black dresses. The plain black might become a wrap skirt though. That would be an extremely useful wardrobe item. I plan to make a plain black, short sleeved, dress with some Liverpool. The rose fabric is almost like a lighter denim. It might be very interesting for a pair of pants, but those are still scary.

So that’s my latest haul. I’m going to go make a bunch of leggings now, since they are the quickest things to get done. Or possibly join Fancy in her blanket fort. It looks cozy! Have a lovely night!