A box full of possibilities or should I call it my needlework sketchbook? My inspiring, overwhelming and expanding fabric and material storage.

From time to time, I like to go through all the fabrics. Look at them, remember their sorties.
Where I have gotten them from and why. What I had planed with them. Or I imagine new projects I could do with each of them.

Maybe it is as if I would read through a sketchbook that I continuously filled over the past years.

I turn the pages, filled and empty ones. Mesmerised by all the different colours and emotions.

Lost in my thoughts of what was and what could be.

There is my pile of white silk shirts, that I accumulated over the time. One by one some from French flea markets and some in Swiss second-hand shops. I absolutely want to turn them into something but haven’t found the right thing yet.
It went along patchwork trousers, to pirate blouse or a dress, I would love to work on it in the next few weeks.

That’s the fabric I will keep if I ever sew myself a marriage robe in white.

There are two layers of fabric, hold together by embroidery. The only default is that stupid me cut out a little square on the edge, why?

Double layer fabric! The great thing about it is, you basically own two fabrics for the space of one. This one is just waiting for me to get it into the predestined shape.

That would be an overall, reversable. I can’t wait to wear that!

I could go on and on like that.

Silk.

Many samples. Big ones and smaller ones.

Leftovers of projects. Waiting to become the top to an already finished trousers.

It can get overwhelming as well, when I start to feel like I want or must complete all the ideas I have. Maybe that is the only problem. Who says I must complete them? Maybe it is fine if the biggest part of good ideas will always stay in my head?

Even though I already have a lot and maybe also enough, I can rarely go a week or two without finding something new.

As for the last week I visited a few second-hand shops.

It is as if I find the most when I need the least!

Which is why I bought this silk skirt.

One of my recent discoveries, is to check for the bed sheets. In that way you get a lot of fabric for cheap.
Meanwhile in the region I am, the bed sheet trends seem to be awful patterns and washed out colours, I still found this huge pile of orange.

The instant plan was to turn it into a sweatpants-hoodie combination.
Why?
Have you ever seen those overalls, for kids, that are in a shape and look of a bear? They are fluffy, a fur like fabric and usually have a hood with little ears on it.
Sometimes I feel ripped off. Kids clothes can be so much cuter and special, than anything adult size.

Proof:
The cutes blouse for a toddler. Yes, I have absolutely no need for that, but I am just going to gift it to the next person getting a kid around me…_{(at least that was my excuse to buy it)}

When seeing those neatly spreader sewing patterns, how could I resist?

There is a charm to those old school patterns. And it is quite fun to go through the trends of the time, long gone and forgotten.

Trousers seem to be my main theme at the moment.

I wont resist.

That’s where I close the sketchbook, forget about the pile of possibilities and focus on the one fabric that inspires me the most in just that moment.

Thank you all for stopping by and have a lovely week!

All photos and words are mine, taken and written by me.