After the success of the Atlantis dress I’ve almost been a little scared to start on something else due to the fear that it won’t reach those lofty heights.  Thank you SO MUCH to all the lovely people who stroked my ego about the dress – I am still grinning.  I plan to make a long sleeved version for winter and possibly a sleeveless version for next summer and maybe even shorten it into a top as well.  Although there are plenty of other patterns in the drawer just waiting to become three dimensional.

So I’ve finally jumped on the bandwagon with Kirsty.  This week I have lots of partly done projects floating around the sewing room – a quilt block waiting to be assembled for my Sue Ross BOM quilt, fabric to make blocks for Bronwyn in my Around the Block quilting bee, a dress for Stella, a dress for Clare (both of which have been waiting for months now), a bag, a top for me.  So what have I done?

I’ve arranged my threads in colour groupings. And discovered that I have a lot of threads and barely enough spool holders.

The blues and greens are all on another spool holder, the white/creams and blacks are on spool holders in my sewing cabinet, and I have a box for assorted cheap threads (I’ve become a sewing thread snob and only like to sew with Mettler or Guterman now). It made me realise where I have thread colour deficits – I need black, gray, orange and yellow – and has made me realise that I need to apply the same theory to my fabric stash and sort the quilting fabrics out according to colour. At the moment they tend to be sorted according to fabric line or according to size or according to intended purpose. The dressmaking fabrics (and there is some cross-over between the two) are in a separate cupboard to the quilting fabrics.

I also sorted out my yarn stash last week (partly to clear out a drawer for my vintage pattern stash) and my goodness, there is a lot of crochet to do!  It was lovely to squish those balls of yarn and dream of what each one might become.

If you’re in Melbourne and wanting to enhance your fabric stash, GJ’s Discount Fabrics has 25% off all patchwork fabrics including battings and craft accessories from today until Wednesday 3rd March.  If my shelves weren’t full to bursting I’d be there in a heartbeat.

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