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Sewing!!!! (It’s *Sew* Much Fun!)

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I have a confession to make. I love to sew. I’ve been on a sewing kick lately. Well, to be honest, I’ve been more on an organizing my items to get them ready so that I can sew kick. You see, just as I have a ton of shoes, I also have managed to amass a bunch of patterns and fabrics to sew with. The only problem is that as far as notions go, I haven’t managed to collect so many of those (so I’ve been making a spreadsheet of what patterns I want to make, what fabric I will use to make the patterns with, and what notions I will need to purchase in order to complete the pattern). In doing so, I began looking at various sewing patterns online and felt that a Pinterest board was necessary. Of course, these are all patterns I do not have. Just ones that I think would be cool to put my hands on.

I learned in my search that just because a pattern company used a particular number ten years ago, it doesn’t mean that company will use that pattern number now.  For example, one of the dresses I would love to make with this beautiful floral print fabric I have is no longer in print. I have the pattern. I have the fabric. However, when I was trying to catalog the patterns I had, I ran into this problem. I wanted to put images of the patterns into the spreadsheet I was creating. That way, at a glance, I could know what pattern exactly I was referring to (I have a LOT of sewing patterns) without having to dig through my pattern box.

Here are three patterns I would really like to get working on that fall into this category:

This is a pattern where I think it would be great to use this black shiny jacquard print fabric with white lace trim for view A. It would make a very sexy LBD, and I already have shoes that would be phenomenal with it. I’m also thinking about using a print fabric I have with this one.

I love these skirts – I think they are so cute! I think that I’m going to start with one of the shorter ones, and use this brown fabric I have that has really pretty flowers on it.

For this pattern, I think I’d start off with the short sleeve cowl-neck shirt, but really there isn’t a view I don’t like here. I have some really nice red stretch velour fabric that would work nice for the v-neck long sleeve shirt.

So, as you can see, clearly I have a problem. These are only 3 of probably 50 patterns that I have. I’ve decided that I need to actually make these clothes instead of having patterns sit in boxes for an indeterminate period of time. So, I’m going to be organizing the office/library my husband and I share, and I want to organize my sewing supplies. Once I see what I have, I can make clothing that I have the supplies for, and then make a list of things I need in order to complete other projects. Then, I plan on posting about what I’m working on here, so you can see some of the fabulous things I make!

For those of you who sew, how do you organize your sewing projects?

Ronda Bowen

Ronda Bowen is a writer, editor, and independent scholar. She has a Master of Arts in Philosophy from Northern Illinois University and a B.A. in Philosophy, Pre-Graduate Option, Honors in the Major from California State University, Chico. When she is not working on client projects from her editorial consulting business, she is writing a novel. In her free time, she enjoys gourmet cooking, wine, martinis, copious amounts of coffee, reading, watching movies, sewing, crocheting, crafts, hanging out with her husband, and spending time with their teenage son and infant daughter.

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