Monday afternoon I hit the JoAnn’s Simplicity pattern sale and scooped up three of the new Lisette patterns for $1.99 each. Score!

I’ve been thinking, as the weather FINALLY begins to turn warm around here, that I don’t have a lot of good summer clothes in my closet. And that it’s time to do some serious summer sewing. So, I dug through my stash to see what I have on hand that I could use to make some new clothes!

This is what I came up with. These are either garment fabrics or quilting cottons that I own enough of to possibly make a garment from.

On the top left are brown and khaki twills. These are leftovers from a couple of pairs of pants I made a while back. I’m thinking possibly a pair of shorts based on those pants, or maybe the short skirt from the center pattern?

I also want to make another one of the vintage dresses that I just finished. I have my eye on my new Jay McCarroll fabric over there in the bottom right corner, but I would want to find a coordinating fabric to do the front and back yokes and probably the pockets and belt in. Nothing in my stash and nothing at Bobbin’s Nest, so I’ll have to shop elsewhere if I stick with that plan.

I also want to make the passport dress, which is the one on the left above. Maybe in the brown linen with the turquoise flowers? I got that in Vietnam, like the linen of the other dress I made earlier this year. Which means I don’t have a lot of it, but that dress doesn’t look like it would take a ton.

I’d really love to find a great top pattern, and I’m hoping the one on the model in the middle pattern will be cute. But I think it’s going to need a really lightweight fabric to work out, so maybe one of the blues? The solid blue is a shirting fabric I also bought in Vietnam, and the blue with the white objects is a vintage bit I picked up somewhere. Or that shirting might be really cute as the top of the dress on the right, if I make the version in two colors. But I don’t have anything to go with it really.

And I really like the shirt dress on the model in the pattern on the right, but I know I don’t have anything that would work well for that. And then I have some fabrics that I have enough of but don’t know what to do with. The tiny yellow flowers is a Momo Wonderland print that I also have in red (made a Mendocino sundress out of the other one), but this color does not work up by my face. Oh! And I just remembered I have a couple yards of another Momo Wonderland print like this one but in the tomato color in the same twill. What to do with that?? The big floral is a Heather Bailey FreshCut fabric that doesn’t really work by my face either, but is probably too light colored for me to want to make into a dress or skirt. And there’s a chunk of that Dagmar Plaid left as well on the bottom left.

So…. first thing is to see if I have enough of anything to make the things I’m considering. Then I can decide what to do with the fabrics. I’ll make a muslin for any new pattern I want to make and if I like it, then I’ll start thinking about acquiring more fabric if I need it.

I wonder how much I’ll actually get made over the summer? Not much if my sewing room is sweltering, as usual in the summer. Might have to move sewing to the living room!