2016 Sewing Budget: July

There’s nothing like doing a monthly update, to make you realise how quickly the months are marching on! It’s August!

This month was pretty restrained. I’ve been going through my stash, and recording it with a new app (I’ll write more about this in another post). What made me decide to buy Cora in the first place, was that I had a plan for a specific length of fabric, and then realised that I had less than I thought, meaning my initial plan wouldn’t work. This has happened before, so I thought having somewhere I could record how much fabric, as well as some other info, would help me plan better. The purchase of Cora was also a “speculate to accumulate”, or rather “speculate to avoid accumulating” thing. Hopefully writing down what I already have, and having it accessible, will help reduce the amount I buy.

On the subject of the trigger fabric, if you will, I bought some more. My aim is to make short pyjamas. I have enough to make a top (I’m going to use the Eucalypt tank pattern), so I tracked the fabric down and bought a further 0.5m (for considerably less than I paid for the first lot) to allow me to make matching shorts. The pompom trim is also for the shorts.

I had no inclination to buy any patterns this month, as I have my next few makes planned out, but then True Bias released the Emersonpants pattern, which is basically the trouser shape I’ve been dreaming about all summer so far. I had had plans to hack another pattern, but I know that by the time I get round to it (and more crucially, get it right), summer will be over. With Kelli offering 20% off the pattern till the end of the month, I took advantage and bought it. I reckon I can probably make this entirely from stash, and have fabric already earmarked. 

In my last monthly post I promised (myself) that I would make 4 items from stash before buying any more fabric. I have made 2 items pairs of shorts (here and here), but one was from scraps and I'm not sure that counts. I am also working on a Eucalpyt in viscose and the above mentioned PJs. So 3 down (and we're allowing the above purchase on the grounds that it helped "free" the other length from the stash, remember?), probably Emersons next?