Stashbusting update (mostly February)

 Well, I wrote my last update in early february, but it mostly covered what happened (what I used and what I bought) in january. So, here is another update, but it is not good, in the sense, that stash came in, but have not -yet- gotten out, have not gotten made. 

I still have not decided, how often will I make these updates, so, that is up in the air at the moment, however, this was an open post-draft, for weeks, more like a journal of what I bought and what I used, because if I do not put it down soon after I bought/used something... I might just forget about it.

Anyhow, since the last time I updated....

I bought fabrics. I was pretty good for the month of January, but then...

I was looking for some kind of jacket/cape/etc pattern for my friend to wear with her 1840-ies dress, because we will have an event in mid-March, and it will be most probably cold.

And then we were talking about coats/jackets in general, and a coat pattern came up, in which I instantly fall in love with, and she gifted me the pattern, and I went out and bought fabric for it. That is a fabric, I had my eyes on for more than a year, but now I had the perfect reason to buy it, and I also got lining right away, 

So that is 4,5 meters of fabric, twice, that is 9 meters in all. 

Last year I bought a lot from a fine, soft microcourdory, dark, navy blue, for a pair of bubble pants, then another piece for a dress, then maybe for a skirt... Anyhow, my last year's micro-courdory pants wore out pretty fast (I still need to figure out, how to patch it up, because I do love it), and I was thinking, maybe I will sew the navy blue version with patches already designed in at strategic points, and I looked at some cotton velveteen, and then, an idea for an Edwardian set popped in my had, with a dark blue skirt, thinking, if I buy the fabric for the skirt, then I can use the cutoff pieces for those bits of patches/pockets and such.

There came in another 4,5 meters of cotton velveteen.

With a 2,3 meter piece of thinner denim, as I am looking at different trouser-patterns, I want to find some special,but good jeans style, and I need to experiment with some of those. 

I also got 3,5 meters of white, cotton, with woven in white stripes for an Edwardian blouse (because I could do with an extra, to change at events lasting more than a day), then I thought, it is pretty rare to find a good white not-too-thick cotton fabric that could be good for underwear, light dresses and shirts, so I went back to buy a lot more of it, but by then they only had another 3,3 meter piece of it. 

Then somebody, who used to sew costumes was selling her stuff, and there I got some very dark gray/black linen and small bit of brocade.

And then a friend was stashing down her fabric and came some printed cotton and apricot colored... maybe taffeta, but it would be good for corsets. So, about 30 meters that came IN. 

I think, I finally cut through my sewing paralyzis, and cut out some stuff to sew, but I will account for those, when they are finished.

As for yarn, I have decided to handle separately the yarn I get to knit things I sell (mainly historical stockings) and the yarn I get to  dye, and the "other" (or "regular") stash. 

In that wein, there came in about 600 gramms (+250 gramms) that I want to use to knit historical stuff, and about 250 gramms of bits and ends of colorful sockyarn that goes into the "regular" stash, and 3 skeins of Fiesta (from a DROPS Sale) 

That is a great plus on both fronts, but then, I was working on things that I will account for in my next stashbusting update.