Hey there, my name is Haley and I am the pattern designer here at
Seamwork and today I'm going to take you on a tour of my fabric stash. So let's jump
in and talk about fabric, which happens to be one of my favorite things to talk about.
So on a previous video I gave you a little tour of my sewing room, a bunch of the teammates at
Seamwork did, and I talked a little bit about my system there but I'll go more in depth today. So um
I live in a fairly small home, I work from home, my husband works from home, needless to say it
is pretty tightly packed, so for that reason the majority of my fabric stash actually lives out in
my garage, which is not ideal. I have big Rubbermaid drawers that protect my fabric but I mean ideally
I would not like to have it out in the garage but you know it is kind of what it is at this point. I
have three sets of drawers, each set has three drawers and I have my fabric divided up into
wovens uh the top drawer is the lightest and the bottom drawer is the heaviest. I find that this way
um I have a rough idea of where to look when I'm looking for a fabric um and then I have my knit
drawer and then my third set of drawers is kind of my overflow and that is where I keep some of
my scrap scraps that are big enough that I think I might want to make a quilt with or make something
for my daughter. I also have some large pieces of fabric or specialty fabrics that I like to fold
more flat, unlike rolled up bundles like I have here this is how I store most of my fabric um
other than that um I have a big bin where I keep my smaller scraps, things that I think I'll make
um maybe bias tape or pockets, things like that or will eventually get stuffed into
like a pillow or an ottoman in the future. So that is kind of my system for fabric as my stash grows
and and condenses it kind of ebbs and flows, it's a constant project to keep um my fabric in order
I imagine it might be the same way for other people um but that is my current state of my stash.
All right, so next I am going to show you some individual fabrics that I have in my stash.
First up I am going to show you one of my favorite cuts of fabric which is this really amazing
Nani Iro double gauze, I'll unroll it for you so you can really admire it um first of all
it's double gauze so it's like extremely soft and drapey and lovely but also I mean just check out
how cool this print is. I have a good amount of it I think I have almost four yards
um but i'm always afraid to cut into it, it's so cool um so it has not been turned into anything
yet. I do think something like a Micah caftan would be really cool just to show off um the big print
like it has those big huge panels and it's so, it's really good for large scale prints like that.
Next I want to show you the fabric I've had in my stash the longest um so this is actually in
the process of becoming something finally so it is a quilting cotton I bought it when Ihad
first started sewing um in college and it has these really pretty cute little mermaids on it
and when I bought it I didn't have, I didn't intend to make a garment out of it but I was like
oh it's so cute someday I'm gonna have a daughter and I'm gonna make her a blanket out of it
and you know what I have a daughter now and I'm gonna make her a blanket out of it um which is
cool because that was um it was a it was quite a while ago probably like 12 maybe 14 years ago,
it was a while ago um but it's becoming a blanket finally. How often do you have something in your
stash that like you have a plan for it sits around for over a decade and then you finally
execute on the actual plan, for me that doesn't happen very often. Next up I'm gonna show you um
the fabric I'm gonna be sewing with next this is a uh kind of a fine weave twill fabric, it's
cotton has a little bit of spandex in it I think I'm gonna make some Elizabeth Suzanne Clyde pants,
um it's nice and lightweight so I think it'll be really good um for the springtime um I made
a Clyde Jumpsuit recently and it's awesome um so I'm excited to make some pants. All right
next up the fabric that I am most afraid to cut into is a this is a silk rayon velvet, oh my gosh
it's so nice. When I was in college I made a dress for a fashion show out of this fabric
and I have a bunch of it left over and I've always intended to like make something special for myself
to like commemorate um that like memory and moment in my life and I have been out of college for a
while and I still haven't made anything out of it I think just like a really beautiful classic
dress that I'll never want to get rid of is probably the ticket but I still have not done it.
Next I'm gonna show you fabric I kind of regret buying um this is a jersey knit,
that's my cat yelling in the background, um I went through a phase where I was like really into
making pajamas and loungewear and um I bought this this was like an end of bolt I think there's only
like a yard and a half but I bought it because it was a good deal, not because it was necessarily,
there's the cat, not necessarily because it's really my style but
um I've been meaning to just like knock out some quick leggings for um
my daughter so that's probably what this is destined to become. It's a cool fabric,
it's just not something I would necessarily wear for myself. Fabrics that I inherited um this one
wasn't, I didn't inherit necessarily it was a gift from my friend Christine um it's a vintage fabric,
look how cool that is, she just knows me so well, she knows the colors I like, I think it's so cool
um it makes me think of like, it's a 1960s fabric, it kind of makes me think of like something that
um I got one of those vintage tiki inspired dresses would be made out of I personally think it
would be like a really cool Quince to wear to the beach to the pool over a swimsuit um but I haven't
gotten around all of my fabrics I haven't gotten around to sewing something out of it yet it's true.
I have not um another fabric, not really a fabric but I don't have a lot of sewers in my family my
only family member who sews is my auntie Karen she's a really awesome quilter but she sent me
this box of really cool vintage trims um a few years back and I'll just show you a few of them.
Um look how cute like how cute would that be on like a neckline or something um so
many cute little, this little like tiny like crocheted rickrack thing these little tiny
pom-poms, oh my gosh they're so cute and then there's also like a ton of um cotton lace uh
I think that would be really cool to incorporate this into um a kind of like Edwardian type blouse,
um again haven't gotten around to it I mean there's just so much stuff just like this I
think I just need to give it all a good bath a soak and um make like a really badass kind of um
vintage inspired blouse probably a Folkware pattern or something like that I think would
be really really cool. Um so those are some kind of a standout fabrics in my stash, I have a ton of
fabric though um so those are just a few to give you kind of a taste, there's definitely some loud
prints mixed with like lots of staple fabrics that I know um I'm always gonna love and then really
fun special fabric that I'm afraid to cut into. So there you have it, that is my stash
in a nutshell. I'm curious to hear from you guys and how you guys organize your
stash especially people like me who have to store their stash in a garage or a basement or another
kind of not ideal condition. How do you work with that? Do you have any hot tips for me?
Let me know in the comments below, I'd love to hear from you and as always please do not forget to
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