Next off the sewing machine

Well not exactly that exciting, but I have made something. 

After publishing my last post I put the granny square project away, out came one of the tried and tested pyjama patterns again, down came the four metres of brushed cotton fabric, which has been hanging over the door since the beginning of May and the said fabric became more pyjama bottoms for the girl's again! 

Nice fabric to work with 

French seams for the legs, very neat!

And finished with a label, not for personalisation but so my girls can tell the front from the back 

I most probably can make these in my sleep (ha ha!), I have made "NINE" pairs of pyjama bottoms this year! I've already done more sewing makes this year than last year. 

All nine pairs!!!!

Now I think that it's time to leave the comfort zone of pyjama bottoms and do something different, as the great pyjama shortage has now ended. But the big question is what to do next? I'm not short of fabric or patterns and I don't even have a shortage of sewing thread or other haberdashery supplies either, so what will I make next? I'm off to look through my pattern box and fabric stash.

Stuck in a big rut

That's how I feel at the moment and it's a horrible feeling too.

Well let's start with the ongoing granny square project, which is basically going nowhere at the moment, a little while ago I counted  how many granny squares I had made and there is over two hundred, which is a quite a positive thing knowing that I had made that many, but I have still got a basket full of yarn which is a negative thing. But I think it's time to put the ongoing granny square project away for awhile.

The positive side 

The negative side

So what have I been doing since I last posted? 

Well on the non-granny square making front I have done some sewing, well a little bit of sewing to be more precise. 

Project number one:- some pattern weights 

A little project that has been on my want to make list, these were a quick easy project to do and they used up some squares that I had left over from another project and are filled with some of the rice from the damaged beyond repair doorstop (ask my youngest daughter why she destroyed it). I have certainly made use of them and wonder why I didn't make some sooner.

Project(s) number two:- pyjama bottoms 

Not for me for a change, for the girl's instead. They both are in desperate need of some new pyjama bottoms and this need was made more urgent by that my eldest daughter was going on a school residential trip and she hadn't got a hole free pair to take with her. This would use up some of the fabric from my stash, it was going to be green brushed cotton with owls for my eldest and cream brushed cotton with monsters on for my youngest. I managed to make two (long and short) pairs out of each piece of fabric.

Project number three:- is something that I'm not ready to blog about yet, as at the moment I have got a problem with it, well let's just say it involves something that my youngest daughter has done, so at the moment I'm trying to salvage it.

So what is happening on the stash fronts Then? Well the yarn diet is sort of working, I haven't bought (or received) any yarn since October last year, but due to the slow ongoing granny square project all the odd bits of yarn are not disappearing as quickly as I want them to do and I desperately want to do some knitting for a change. 

Let's move on to the fabric stash front, well let's just say that is a diet that isn't working. First let's look at the plus side since the beginning of the year I have used five pieces of brushed cotton fabric, but those five pieces have been replaced by five more pieces - another piece of brushed cotton, a piece of polar fleece, a piece of knitted lace fabric, a very nice piece of liberty fabric and yesterday a piece of tee shirt fabric.

 Do I have a problem yet?

Still got a long way to go till the stash in under control