It's Life and Life Only

I took stock of the cloth I'd got and not yet used, or been given for Christmas. It's a lot! My main plan for this year, as a result, is to use what I've got instead of buying more of anything. I expect I might crack at some point during the year, but I certainly need to make a good dent in the stash before that point.


This is the main stash pile. I do have plans for most or all of it. From bottom to top:

The two patterned fabrics at the bottom are cottons to make tops or shirts from - I've got a shirt pattern that I haven't tried yet and it'd be good to be able to do it a couple of times to get better at it and learn from any mistakes on the first one.

Next up, there's a grey jersey fabric that you can hardly see - I am planning to make a third pair of comfy lounge pants, kinda like leggings but in slightly thicker fabric and - with pockets!

There's a beautiful print featuring owls, in a sandy light gold and and grey - it's to be a t-shirt for Jrmy, all being well.

Next one above is a thick wedge of corduroy to make cargo pants for my niece - you can't see from the picture but they are slightly shimmery, with a silver glitter effect.

No plans yet for the next one above - it's a flannel with a sweet print of little sheep (right side not shown in the pic), suitable for a youngster, but there's not that much of it (only a meter or so as far as I remember).

The next one, the green textured fabric, again is showing the wrong side - there's a pattern of palm leaves in black on that one. I'm aiming to make a sweatshirt or a hoodie for myself from this one.

The bright blue is some super-soft light corduroy that will make a smashing warm shirt for R if I don't cock it up.

The bright green with the blue and white circle prints is a quilting cotton that I made some Christmas present gift bags out of, but I kept half of it back to be the inside waistband of the cargo pants for my niece.

The petrol dark green is linen that will make a nice pair of trousers or a sturdy skirt from - I bought a trouser pattern to try to make some trousers for R from, might use this cloth for the first go at those before doing cargo pants in something more workmanlike.

The bronze print in geometric patterns is in principle for a dress for Kid A, but it's been a couple of summers since I got it and haven't managed to start cutting into it yet.

Finally, the orangy-red right at the top of the pile is for a cotton t-shirt for me, hopefully to be a simple but lively work top.

I've also got some stretchy jersey that I've made some things out of but that there's still a lot left of:

They'll mostly end up as t-shirts and leggings for the kids I expect.

Finally, the ones I've been given for Christmas this year!

Some lovely Liberty cotton, maybe for a nightshirt for me? And three amazing African wax cloth - check out the fantastic colours and prints! Not yet sure what these will be, apart from a small amount to be used for a bag each for Kid A and Kid B, for their kickboxing kit.