So at the end of Me Made May'12, I made a half-arsed pledge to stop buying sewing more patterns or fabric and use what I already have. I didn't give myself any guidelines, any kind of time-scale, just a maybe I shouldn't buy more stuff. And as a consequence I went the following days and bought Sew magazine, because I liked the Lisette pattern that was included free with it (hardly free as the magazine costs £5.99).
Now it's a nice enough magazine, like the dozens of other sewing magazines I have bought and kept and hardly ever made anything from. It was a typical sewing impulse purchase and when I got the pattern home and had a closer look I felt less and less likely that it would be a pattern I would make a great deal of use out of. But with my new ethos fresh in my mind I have actually used this pattern and this is the result.
I cropped the dress to make a top instead, the check fabric is a remnant from a shirt I made Fluffrick several years ago and I also used it to make my own bias binding. The plain fabric I bought when we went to Bradford and blogged about here. I even had the perfect colour of cotton already in my stash.
So mostly stuff I already had, but the purchase of a new pattern none the less.
So here is what I pledge.
For the remainder of 2012 I, Katrina of RollingEyeballs, will not purchase any new patterns, fabric, notions or sewing magazines. I will use what I already have and I will only purchase haberdashery if it is essential to the completion of a garment.
We can just overlook the bag of 27 zips that I bought at Oxfam in Buxton for the princely sum of £2.99, how could I pass that up?
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