It's a tradition.

Every year since they were 4, I have made my daughters nightgowns for Christmas that they open on Christmas Eve.
They didn't think they were getting them this year, but they did.

And here they are on Christmas morning, with their brand new sewing machines!

Maybe I'll have a nightgown to open next Christmas Eve!! LOL

Almost done

I've been continuing to enter my fabric stash into MyStuff on my iPod and am almost finished. At this point, I have 105 pieces of fabric and a total of 170 metres (186 yards).

The best part about this exercise is that I now have all of my fabric in one room of the house and it is sorted neatly, and easily located, in numbered bins. I figure I have about 10-20 pieces more to enter, that are currently in a bin under my bed, and I'll be done.

The exercise has also been successful in stopping me from buying any more fabric; at least for now ;)

After reading about the size of Gigi's stash, I don't feel so bad, but she also cranks out many, many more beautiful, garments than I could even dream of!! :-)

Scary...

I use an iPod app called My Stuff to keep track of my pattern stash, and wish list, because I don't have WiFi access at my local fabric stores. The number of patterns I own is a bit scary considering how many I actually use :)

But last week I decided to start cataloguing my fabric stash as well. I'm already at 56 pieces of fabric and I haven't even started! And I'm not entering any pieces of fabric less than one metre, of which there are several.

I have stashes of fabric spread throughout the house, all aging quite nicely. As I pull each piece of fabric out, I can remember exactly what I was going to make with it. I just never did.

I'm sure I hope that this exercise will keep me from buying any more fabric for a while until I actually sew something, but then again, there are several good sales on right now ;)