can you go a whole year without buying fabric welcome to the Sewing Report I'm
Jennifer Moore helping you discover your love of sewing crafts and DIY projects
and one year ago I pledged not to buy any fabric for the entire year did I do
it what did I learn and what is this year's challenge going to be we're gonna
be chatting about all of that and I've got some updates for you if you've been
following me for a while you know that I did not buy any clothing in 2017 and for
the most part I did actually carry on that pledge into 2018 I bought a few
items of clothing but I was much more mindful about what I was doing and
that's kind of the point of all this it's not to deprive ourselves it's to
learn what we what we do need what we don't need and trying to figure out what
a good balance is so I did go the entire year without any fabric was it difficult
I gotta be honest with you not really I thought maybe there would be a specific
project that I would need something for or you know I'd be like see some print
that I had to have and I did avoid looking at a lot of websites for fabric
and you know looking at a lot of blogs so that was that kind of helped the
other thing now I did say that if I got like fabric is part of like a PR box
like I sometimes get or as like a gift I just had to get rid of an equivalent
amount of fabric by selling it by giving it away so I did do that I did a little
little bit of a like sewing report sort of like a like a little sale early last
year and then I did a garage sale at whim so doodle that went pretty well I
definitely held up that end of the deal by not bringing more fabric into my
stash that's something that's been bothering me for awhile
I didn't want to have those crazy hoarders stashes and in fact I would say
that throughout the entire year and going into 2019 now I don't feel like I
made that big of a dent in my fabric stash I will be honest I still feel like
I have a way too much fabric so I think going into 2019 I'm gonna try to
continue to not really buy anything new use what I
have and try to be purposeful because I still have way too much stuff in here
and we're gonna be moving in the next few weeks so I want to have as little
stuff as possible even though that's still an insane amount of stuff in here
so there's been some changes this uh this contraption here this is my husband
James's new 3d printer so that's gonna be going with us when we move and we may
be making videos for his channel more proof I don't really understand 3d
printing I tried to use it one day while he was at work and it didn't go super
well but you know that's why I have a sewing channel and not a 3d printing
channel and for the record I was having a pretty good hair day but the rain like
it just got totally wrecked so here we are so yes no fabric and a funny story I
had bought like a bunch of fabric from fabric wholesale direct right before my
self-imposed fabric ban thinking hey this will give me a good stash of new
stuff to work on throughout the year I don't even think I've used any of that
forever so I spent about a hundred bucks on fabric and it's still just sitting in
the closet I did cut out some of the fabric to make some girls dresses with
but that project is definitely not anywhere near finished so I think it's
the thing I thought I was gonna need more fabric than I did you know I don't
know I guess I just had much more than I realized in my stash is it just me or do
I feel like we have a lot to catch up on why not make this like eight videos all
rolled into one so recently I got the new max email box
and mood fabrics which I have done a review on before they sent me another
sample box so in the spirit of fabric why not open these up during this video
so this is the designer fat it's like they're designing or swatch club this is
very cool thank you very much mood although I'm gonna need a lint roller
there's just a lot of random lint on here and like little fuzzies so okay
this is the new whoa new mood swatch club
samples okay so basically how it works is if you do sign up for this they send
you new swatches every month and then I think you get a discount on any orders
you make and they give you a little booklet of all the swatches okay this is
cool but mood man there there is a lot of debris in here previously I did do a
review on another swatch box I think it's a cool idea although I'm finding
with this one too the swatches are still very taste specific and a lot of the
fabrics are like pretty out there so it's not real neutral stuff think like
stuff that you would see like a fashion designer use on Project Runway okay Wow
I'm gonna close this there's like little hairs everywhere okay yeah there's a
piece of faux fur in here and I think this is where a lot of this is coming
from we're gonna put this back in the box
Thank You mood fabrics I always keep a couple lint rollers in my sewing room
because you never know when you're gonna like I feel like you need one all the
time maxie makes subscription sewing box for
december yes I realize it's mid-january so forgive me here I got the box a few
days ago and I've just been so wrapped up another stuff like looking for a
place to live that I haven't gotten a chance to get it out of the car oh this
is neat okay it's got oh this month's project is a needle book there's so much
more needle book and this is neat because it fits stuff that we've gotten
in previous maxy makes boxes like the little pins and some of the some of the
Wonder clips stuff so this is cool thank you so much maxi wow this one does a lot
of stuff in it I've really been enjoying these projects and I did make these
scarves in last month's box and I gifted them oh love me some fray check some
cute scissors in here embroidery scissors hey this will go great with my
new embroidery machine right you can always use another good pair of scissors
I love scissors there's quilters dream batty and probably for the needle book
oh this is cute look at all rights got more batting and it's got some fabrics
in here it's got some scissor fabric yes now that I'm now that my fabric ban
is over you know I can go hog-wild here it's got some more tea this is cute oh
and the ribbon that'll be used to close the needle book this is very cool that
in a useful project is and it's got some elastic this is a really good idea and I
think I could definitely use something like this so thank you so much Maxie for
thinking of me again these things were sent to me and I very much appreciate
them and I will link everything below if you are interested but again no pressure
here I almost didn't see this it's a super cute hummingbird needle threader
how cool okay so let's get to some other business what is gonna be the challenge
for this year and I'm gonna tell you it's going to be sewing for other people
sewing gifts that's what I want this theme to be and I'll tell you why I've
been doing a lot of sewing for myself in the past couple years but I also really
love gifting things whether it be to a close friend a family member or even
someone I barely know or don't know I just really like giving things to people
and I almost enjoy it more than getting gifts in return so I thought this year I
would focus on doing things for other people
of course you're welcome to do this also along with me because you know why not
do it with some friends here and I've been doing a lot of thinking lately and
also chatting with a friend of mine and I feel like I see a lot out there in the
sewing and making community of just making stuff sometimes it doesn't really
have a purpose it's like a little tchotchke I mean don't get me wrong
those things are cute everything you see on Pinterest but at the same time a lot
of it to me just doesn't seem practical and I really want to make something that
has intent meaning and purpose behind it rather than make something that is
adorable for five minutes and then you forget about it I also again I'm really
trying to purge things out of my life and and really kind of edit some of the
things I have possessions clothes whatever whatever you can think of
and I think that really goes along with everything I'm doing so I'm gonna try to
do as little selfish sewing this year as I possibly can I mean every once in a
while you never know if I'm gonna need something for myself but as I've learned
from 2017 you really don't need that much clothing I mean I wear the same
like three t-shirts just over and over again and pretty much just two pairs of
pants so it can certainly Bennett be done especially if you work from home
like me and a friend of mine who I did a shot of vlog with her for my channel Jen
talks forever and we also shot one for her channel Allison Moore oh she's a
friend of mine she's a TV reporter and she's probably one of the only known TV
reporters who focuses solely on environmental issues now I'm not the
biggest tree hugger on the planet but from talking to Allison it's really
gotten me I guess just maybe more interested or at least more feeling more
relevant to do things to at least cut down on my own carbon footprint I mean
you don't have to be like insane about it but at the same time I don't want to
be I don't want to be that jerk ruining the planet if you get my drift she talks
a lot about sustainability and one of the things that she feels is really
important is not only to like use green products and environmentally friendly
stuff but one big thing we can do as individuals is to simply consume less
buy something and use it as many times as you can get something that lasts
longer so you don't have to keep replacing it and I think that that just
really applies to the sewing community and the the crafting and DIY community
because I see a lot of projects out there and yes we can make we can make
something every day but at the same time I don't want to just make stuff to make
stuff I really want to make things with with it with a meaning behind it with a
purpose something practical so I'm gonna take this year and I am going to be for
the most part just sewing things for other people
and I want these things to mostly be a surprise and I've been doing this over
the past couple months and I just love surprising someone with like hit you
know monogrammed towels or handmade stockings or their own monogrammed
pillows and especially when the person's not expecting it so I'm going to be
documenting projects I make for other people I've been kind of doing that in
the month of December with some Christmas gifts I made but I want to
continue doing that and also telling you more about the recipient without really
giving away their identity but just kind of sharing more why making something for
someone and and just sharing that with you
and let's face it I don't I don't need any more stuff so that is my pledge for
2019 is sewing for others so if that's something you'd like to join in on feel
free to let me know in the comments because I I don't know it's just been
something that's really been weighing on my mind so I thought why not and I'm
probably still gonna continue to not really buy fabric if I do buy fabric I
will I will let you know but I think I could probably go for quite a while
without buying more fabric and if I did it would be like a small amount or
something very specific for a project but I don't I don't want to keep going
on this wheel of just buying fabric because it's cute without a project in
mind I think that can be potentially wasteful and I mean I could have fabrics
sitting here until after I die and then what do people do with it then I don't
know so if you have an opinion on this also
let me know but that's what we're doing this year folks also in in other news I
have found us a place to live so we're not gonna be I'm not gonna be doing this
on your part for my cardboard box yet we have found a condo for rent so I'm very
excited and we should be moving in in the next three to four weeks so I'm
pretty jazzed about the location and I think it'll have a good setup for
filming I'm probably gonna ditch this backdrop I really don't like it I don't
know I don't know why I thought it would be cool but it's got like I couldn't put
it up without there being a semen middle and I think that looks kind of
ugly so we'll see and also I should be able to take some really awesome sewing
pictures with with the setting so I won't give too much away yet but I think
this will be really cool so anyways I just wanted to catch up a little bit let
you know about how I did with the fabric challenge which was I think pretty I
think I did pretty okay and if you did enjoy this video be sure to hit that
like button and consider subscribing to the sewing report for everything sewing
crafts and DIY projects i'm jennifer moore i'll see you again in the next
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