OK, I usually just lurk on this group but I just have to find out, from others who understand, if there's a good way to explain not having sewn up a fabric to laypeople!
Some friends of ours brought me a lovely piece of fabric from Burma last fall, in fact I got it at the beginning of December. I thoroughly enjoy looking at it hanging in my sewing room/spare room closet whenever I go in there. But I haven't made anything out of it yet. It hasn't even been six months! But every time one of us talks to them, they want to know what I've made from it! Argh!
Now in 15 years of marriage, my husband has learned my fabriholic ways but my attempts to explain to this couple about the joy of just looking at and fingering a lovely fabric while contemplating what it will eventually (maybe) become just aren't getting through. Does anyone have a good way of getting through to laypeople? The fella was one of my husband's mentors on his path to becoming an Episcopal priest, so I wouldn't feel quite right just lying to them....... heehee, besides, we see them in person too often to carry off a lie. sigh.... maybe I'll just have to use some of it for something soon, but I'm in the midst of several other projects.
Maybe I can put it all off on my husband - if he would stop changing sizes and would only buy pants that truly fit (oh, my wife will hem them and let them out for me.....) or if he didn't want a rainbow of clerical shirts in colors not commercially made and wants them fitting his uniques shape better than store bought maybe I could sew some of the fabric up.