Fabric for awhile...

My most recent order from fabric.com arrived the other day, here's what's in store for my future projects:

The charcoal fleece in the middle is first in line. I ordered 4 1/2 yards of it to make both a top for Hubby and a jacket for me. Here's a previous post I did showing the pattern pictures of the top/jacket.

The other fabrics are all meant to become tops of some sort for me. I have a McCalls pattern that I want to try on at least one of those fabrics, but we'll see about the rest. (I kind of want to wing it on the others)

Finally, the green fabric on the right side of the picture... it's not at all what I was expecting. I'm torn if I like it or not, but I think that will be dependent of the style of top it becomes (?)

Fleece Jacket/Top: on deck

After several months of debating about it, I finally bought McCall's pattern M5538 for fleece tops/jackets (unlined). I'm really excited to try it out, and am not sure what took me so long to do so.

Here is a picture from McCall's website of the pattern options (M5538)

I will be making the two styles in the middle (blue on the left, and orange on the right) The partial zip top is for Hubby, and the full zip jacket is for me.

Super nerdy, but we both wanted charcoal fleece... so yes, we will be close to matching. Guess that means I better make a jacket for Beagle too than hahaha.

Anyways, I recently placed my order for the fleece, so hopefully it will get here soon. I'll be cutting out the pattern in the mean time.

Also in the line up: Mens robe

Hubby & I made a trip to Joanns the other day. I was so excited! Just seeing there was a 99 cent sale for McCalls patterns made my day. I tried to hurry (for hubby's sake) but still found some cute patterns to make later.

Luckily hubby got something out of the trip too. He has been asking me to make him a robe for awhile now, but I wanted him to pick out the fabric. With yard requirements finally in hand, we made several circles through the store. He narrowed the choices down, and after much debate, decided on some blue checkered flannel. I hope he likes it when it's done!

Here's a picture from the McCalls pattern website of the pattern I'll be using, it's: Easy McCalls M8524 Easy McCalls M8524

waiting on some fabric

I made another order at fabric.com, and can't wait for it to get here! I must say, I'm a little nervious how the colors will actually look in person, but hopefully they work out.

I ordered a light purple linen, and light yellow lining to make this jacket:

It's view A from Butterick pattern B5335 (the above picture is from the Butterick website) I've had this pattern sitting around in my sewing room ever since a $0.99 sale a couple of years ago, I see that it is now out-of-print. The jacket is a little crazy looking for me, but something drew me to this design so I'm going to give it a try. Maybe it's me, and I just don't know it yet!