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[Evadig]

Hello! Anyone working on projects for the holidays? I am working on some doll outfits as gifts, and attempting to copy April Cornell's Avonlea dress (twice) , with a few adjustments. A tad complicated without a pattern, but the design is pretty loose and forgiving. Plus, someone gifted me a lot of that exact fabric, and I'd had my eye on this dress for a while. The plan is to make the sleeves full long sleeves and shorten the skirt a tad, for one, and remove the neckline ruffle and replace with a boat neck for the second.

Spoiler: Avonlea dress

https://www.aprilcornell.com/produc...een/?msclkid=5ebf74fd39b113aae71d13c2609dcd33

That’s a nice dress!

Yes, I’ll be (hopefully) making my sister a dress for Christmas. I’m waiting for the pattern to arrive in the mail.

Then I have to make myself something nice to wear.

I also want to make my mom a house robe and my sister another dress for presents. Just waiting to go to Joanne Fabrics on Tuesday!

 

[MotherofOrpies]

Wow, what a nice dress, I didn’t even know there were dresses like that at first,I thought the price was just for the pattern

 

[Evadig]

How do y’all organize your sewing supplies (fabric especially)?

I’m being relegated to the soon-to-be-finished basement and it’s a chance to create a dedicated sewing space.

For the last few years I kept everything in bins in the linen closet, but it got messy quickly.

Any ideas are welcome, thanks in advance !

 

[Sparrows]

How do y’all organize your sewing supplies (fabric especially)?

I’m being relegated to the soon-to-be-finished basement and it’s a chance to create a dedicated sewing space.

For the last few years I kept everything in bins in the linen closet, but it got messy quickly.

Any ideas are welcome, thanks in advance !

I personally have a book case and fold the fabric and place it on it in categories. That way I can see everything that I have, I also do it with my yarn and seems to stay fairly neat lol

 

[Evadig]

I personally have a book case and fold the fabric and place it on it in categories. That way I can see everything that I have, I also do it with my yarn and seems to stay fairly neat lol

I like that, except my sister sews doll clothes so I have all these little pieces (like fat quarters) hanging around. I suppose I could keep them in a bin on the bookshelf…

 

[Sparrows]

I like that, except my sister sews doll clothes so I have all these little pieces (like fat quarters) hanging around. I suppose I could keep them in a bin on the bookshelf…

My sister does that and organizes it by each bin has a different color... she is a fabric scrap hoarder lol

 

[ILoveDaffy]

How do y’all organize your sewing supplies (fabric especially)?

I’m being relegated to the soon-to-be-finished basement and it’s a chance to create a dedicated sewing space.

For the last few years I kept everything in bins in the linen closet, but it got messy quickly.

Any ideas are welcome, thanks in advance !

I have a vintage wood and metal trunk that I put my fabric and patterns and such in. I generally organize in terms of use, fabric I always reach for on top, special occasion fabrics and such at the bottom.

 

[Bkaye]

I use a file cabinet and wrap my fabric around comic book boards. It works really well. I have a standard file cabinet as well as a lateral. If I have fill bolts of fabric they fit in the lateral.

 

[MotherofOrpies]

I have got I don’t know how many boxes with sewing stuff all over I used to have a sewing room, after 4 kids, that went out the window, now almost all the kids have moved out, but…they have left all their stuff at home

 

[Sparrows]

I am currently working on a tiered skirt in this lovely autumn floral cotton, and have just completed a matching vest to go with it. I used my button hole foot for the first time and it came out wonderfully. I want to make more vests after my skirt and am thinking of doing it in my leftover navy, olive green, and jean color fabric I have in my stash.