Where's My Floor?

Well, I spent last night "cleaning" my sewing studio. The end result is that I don't have a single square inch of floor space any more. All the fabric that had been piled in a heap, blocking the shelving units that were holding even more fabric was picked up, folded, and stacked into piles in the center of the room. It ended up being 4 stacks about 3 feet high each. I put as much as I could into the shelving unit and the rest (about 2-1/2 piles) originally remained stacked. Now they've all fallen over and slid around. The only way to dig myself out is to sew. A LOT. And soon.


I dug myself out of my emotional pity pit after the dress/serger incident. I went out to the local fabric stores looking to find more of the fabric. No luck. Unfortunately, I did find 2 more bags of sewing fabric and a brand new yarn shop that has opened up about a mile away. Oh... that's a REALLY bad thing. I don't need another fiber addiction. So instead of making more space in my sewing room by cleaning, I ended up ADDING more stuff.


Since I couldn't find the fabric to repair the dress, I have a couple options.

1) turn it into a wadder (that means wad up the dress and throw in the trash).

2)Post a scan of the fabric onto www.missingfabrics.com and stick the partially-finished dress in a pile somewhere and hope that someday someone responds with my fabric or

3)Break down and redesign the ruined piece, disrupting the original smooth lines and put up with it not being exactly what I wanted


I went ahead with 3) and added a waistline seam in the front panel so I could recut the front from 2 different scraps of the fabric. Its finished and it looks nice, but I'm not thrilled. Time to focus on a new project and not obsess on this one anymore.