Sew My Stash | organised castle

I don’t usually get much sewing done during the week and it took until this afternoon before I did any. I was determined to achieve something as part of this challenge so here it is.

I have made a start on a polo shirt for The Duke. I bought the fabric about 14 years ago for this project and it never got made. I have made the tab front, stitched the shoulder seams and done one sleeve and side/underarm seam. I had not done a tab front for well over 10 years, but like riding a bike, you never forget.

With striped fabric it is important to match the stripes. You can see the matching on the tab front in the picture above and the side seam in the following picture. It is impossible to match the stripes with a set-in sleeve due to the shaping.

Next week I hope to show you the completed polo shirt and what I am doing next. It feels good to know that I am using up materials that have been hanging around for years.

I do not usually read heaps of sewing/craft blogs because they often feature projects or items that I am simply do not interest me.

However, I stumbled across this idea here and seemed almost too good to be true. Basically, I can sew or make whatever I like as long as at least 50% comes from my stash. I had pretty well intended to do this but had not thought of articulating my ideals quite so eloquently. I love sewing and am working towards decluttering more stuff so this challenge will definitely help.

My personal plan is to post each and every Sunday about what I have done in the preceding week which fits the challenge. This will help to keep me accountable and will also be an interesting future record of just what sewing I achieved in 2015.

To see what I did last week see my previous post.

Thanks to the lovely Leasa who decided to run with this germ of an idea and also StitchnSewCreates for linking to the original. Please check out these blogs if you are interested in this project.

Then when the pieces are too small for much else there is always the ongoing patchwork!

I know that my fabric stash is not huge compared to what some people have but it is getting to the stage of frustrating me because I have so many plans/ideas for a lot of the pieces and I simply haven’t got around to doing it. 2015 is the year.