The old shirts mentioned last week provided an hour's enjoyment at the fabric store -- after trying dozens of bolts of fabric, five emerged as good matches for repurposing the cast-off garments.
That hour of playing with color will lead to 20 or 30 hours at the sewing machine before I can wear the newly constructed shirts.
This is how a house acquires clutter! Dreaming up a project is delightful and takes only a few minutes. Executing it involves hours of effort which may have to be scheduled for a later season. Pretty soon one realizes the "eyes bigger than stomach" bug has re-filled the recently de-cluttered sewing room.
In spite of their tendency to proliferate, textiles are such a fine source of entertainment -- one simply must learn and try out as many of their uses as possible. This decade's DIY movement is a delightful manifestation of textile art.
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| This month's sewing projects with their newly-purchased fabric complements |
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| Some ideas for shaping shirt collars and yokes. |
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| Textiles can be fascinating... |
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| Shirt and proposed yoke |
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| The fabric on the left is called "ombre," because it is printed in five or six background shades. |
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