aaaargh

[dragonlady7]

How am I this stressed out? Oy.
I've just spent several hours going through my fabric stash and picking out things I am going to use immediately, washing where necessary, ironing, and folding the fabric so that it will be ready to cut out. Now I'm affixing labels to each pile of fabric, so that I know what I am planning to use it for. It was all bought with a specific purpose in mind, each individual bit of it. But of course, I don't remember.
I have a weird issue thing, a fetish maybe? about buying fabric-- I always want more, and constantly have to fight the urge to hoard it. It is incredibly difficult for me to use what I have, to take scissors to fabric and cut into it and just go. So in less than a year, i've acquired this huge stash, none of which I can bear to use.
Finishing the blue silk dress has helped-- I had that fabric for months before I could bear to cut into it, but I kept going fairly steadily, and finished a wearable garment I'm happy with, so blah! I have a few bits that I bought solely because they were so cheap, and it's oddly hard to cut into those too-- because most of my fabric, I love so much, it's hard to "waste" the crap fabric on something that might not work!!
Once I've started it's not quite so bad, but that's why I have two finished, usable garments in the same obnoxious ugly baby-pink linen/cotton blend now-- because it was my 'test' fabric, the only fabric ugly enough that I really felt like I could just go for it.
Which means I'll be wearing pink most of Pennsic, of course, because the test garments are the only ones I've more or less finished.
I hate pink, but what can you do?
Today I hope to get a pair of pyjama pants done, as a trial run for the Pennsic trousers I'm making for Z and for redstapler's bf, and in anticipation of the Great Trousers-Making Session I'll be leading here at some point soon. (I should probably invite anyone else who wants trousers to come-- I will have a well-tested pattern or two, and several sewing machines, so we'll maybe all be making the same thing and thus will be able to all follow the same pattern and not get confused. I hope. Right? That's the plan, anyway.)
I also want to make a second trial pair of trousers, for Z, and then get started on an entari to go over the chirka that is in need of three more hooks and eyes, some hemming, and a few more bits of handsewing to get it all stuck down.
Let's not get too ambitious, though; I also need to do some gardening (if it stops raining for a minute) and the dishes and tidy the house and take a shower and squeeze in some shopping, somewhere, somehow. Oy. OK, I'm going to go start cutting fabric out, if I can master my weird urges long enough to get the damn scissors into the damn fabric already.

Comments

[tudorpot.livejournal.com]

Dye? My Pennsic sewing is so behind. Nods re not wanting to cut fabric- I'm afraid that it might be better for another project. I actually put down a bolt of linen that was $5 a meter today! It was brown. Only ugly fabric is safe.

[greenworldgirl.livejournal.com]

I'm like that about everything- cloth, paint, lotion, makeup. I think, but I can't USE this, it was EXPENSIVE. I try to use it, but I feel guilty. It's weird.