Welcome to 2012!

The crafter within me has re-awakened, and thus my blog will as well. I have a new commitment -- whenever something new comes into the house, it needs to REPLACE something, not just add to the growing stashes. Thus, over the holiday break I decided to attack the fabric stash so I could purchase more fabric (fabric --> garment-->toss/donate one garment-->get more fabric). Love the circular nature here!
Two projects emerged -- a dress for work, and a wall quilt. The dress is fnished (and yes, I DID donate a dress...several, actually!).

This was my first Marfy pattern, and I realized that I actually CAN sew dresses without the directions. The pattern needed alterations as I purchased the wrong size pattern, but the fit is nice. It's a soft light-weight Italian wool -- nice subtle light blue damask-type background pattern reduces the intensity of the plaid.