Seeing Red

After my brisk sales at Winter War I have to "replace my stock". I have a bit of time before the next time I merchant at an event, but then the events are spaced very close together: three in June, one at the end of July and possibly one at the beginning of September. I have to do a lot of sewing!

Did I mention I have quite a pile of fabric to process? It'll be good to clean out some of those shelves and drawers and boxes and totes…. and the piles on the floor, on the cart and on the cutting table. Some days I go into a cutting frenzy. Other days I sit at the serger (trying hard to hold back bad pun about "serging ahead"). And then there are days when I do a lot of trimming and hemming.

I'm trying to average at least one finished garment per day. If I can keep that up I should have plenty of stock for June.

What I sew depends on the fabric I find in my stash and on the colour of thread on my serger. For the past week it's been RED. Red dresses, red tunics, red surcotes. Anything in the red range, from hot pink to rust to old rose. Still there's more thread on those cones, and rather than rethreading the machine with different-colorer thread I keep digging for more reddish fabric…. now excavating down to the red-purple layer. Only another day or two and then I can switch over to black, or grey, or tan.

Here are some finished items. There are more red clothes -- unfinished -- in the other room across the hall