Ironically the word for fabric in Norwegian (stoff) is the same word you use for drugs. It quickly becomes just that after you start sewing. You become severely addicted and you want more more more!
There are many similarities between fabric addiction and drug addiction. You tend to downplay the amounts you are buying and there are times when you just have to have some NOW! I have yet to start trying to sneak them into the house without my fiancé knowing but my gut feeling tells me this might happen eventually. The reason being that you tend to hoard fabrics. This might be the biggest difference between those two addictions or I at least doubt that drug addicts are able to hoard drugs.
Hoarding is in my genes. I have some serious hoarding issues that I try to fight every day. I collected numerous things when I was younger and while I am no longer an active collector I still have serious issues trying to limit the amounts of stuff I keep and bring home. Another problem I have is that I tend to save things forever. I don’t know how many times I have kept some treasured food item for so long that I have had to throw it away. I want to do the same with my precious fabrics, I want to treasure them forever and make sure I use them for the perfect thing. One might think fabric never go out of date but they actually do if you buy fabric for your children.
This particular fabric was something that I just HAD to get and no matter how hard I tried to forget about it I kept going back to the online store to check if it was close to being sold out. It is an GOTS organic jersey by Andrea Lauren. Eventually I just caved in and bought some. I really wanted to make the perfect thing out of it. I just think it is incredibly stylish fabric with the pattern on the bears. I am generally not a big fan of fabric with animals on them for anything other than pyjamas but this one felt destined for something more. I forced myself to use it now but did a trial run to make sure I didn’t waste it on a failure.
This time I used the body suit pattern from Ottobre 01/2012 but changed the opening to be on the shoulder instead of on the front. The fit of that pattern is quite good on my little guy or actually the best I have found so far. I made the “brun bukse” pattern from Heilt Spesiell og Jubel with a slightly wider rib around the waist than on the previous attempt. I freehanded the pattern on the pocket to “match” the bear pattern. I was even brave enough to attempt doing some contrast color of the thread on the binding. The fabric for the pants is jeans jersey from Olivias. The bear fabric is from there as well.
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