I got really frustrated the other day--I wanted to sew up a new top pattern and couldn't find the knit fabric I wanted to use. It's not surprising, but quite irritating, to be sure. Why isn't it surprising--I have way too much fabric and I just didn't know where things were. This incident made me finally do something about it, though, and that's the good news!
It is important to preface the rest of this blog with the fact that I've been actively sewing for 45 years now. Geesh, that makes me sound old! Of course I'm not, though. Being the fabric-holic I am, that means I have fabric around that I got when I started sewing or with a decade or so after, for sure! I've already stated that I've made things for the grands with fabric I got for their Mom and Aunt, so you get the picture. Actually, unless you sew, you probably don't. I could insulate a house with the amount I have, and there are very few things that I'm not interested in using anymore. Other things I bought for when I retire, which is getting closer, by the way.
My big accomplishment over the last week has been to actually take out, measure, snip off a piece for the notebook and catalogue ten BIG bins of the stuff. I've sorted it into categories like spring/summer knits and pant weight fabric. Each bin has a page or three of fabric swatches with the specific yardage and any other information I thought was pertinent. Each bin is numbered and the notebook where all the information resides now lets me see where specific pieces are in the stash. The bad news is that there's lots more to go through--haven't even started on the quilting fabric yet. Sigh.
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