Well, I didn’t get around to drafting any bags last night, but I have almost unpacked all of my fabric/sewing boxes that have been languishing in the garage or under the house for many months and years, and organised them in the wonderful cupboards in my new sewing room!

I have filled three drawers with patterns (they do date back to when I started sewing for myself in the eighties – many of the drop-waisted dress patterns are going to the op shop), another drawer with yarn, and still need to organise all my sewing notions, trims, buttons, elastic etc into some of the other drawers. 

I’ve sorted it according to potential use – clothing, bags, linings, miscellaneous, etc, while also trying to keep fabric type into account.  I can’t get over how great it is to have where I can actually see it – I am sure that I will become inspired to try a few new crafting challenges in addition to clothes sewing.

The view out the window was also quite inspiring this morning:

Eventually there were about eight balloons up over the city.  I love Melbourne in Autumn!