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This morning at 8am, I decided to sort through (most of) my fabric stash! At least it was a quiet activity that did not disturb the neighbours.

There's two reasons I did this:

1. I noticed a lot of the material I would like to use was in the bottom of all the boxes I have in the front bedroom. This is inconvenient as I don't want to be slinging boxes around to get to stuff because I am lazy.

2. I have lots of partial offcuts of material that mum reclaimed from clothes she bought specifically for sewing/textile art. There's also some material with patterns on that I don't like, or that I don't like the feel of.

I did think about slinging the offcuts into a bag and taking them to work, since I currently have easy access to textile recycling. HOWEVER. I also thought about cutting them up into squares or strips, and selling them as fabric packs on my ko-fi (or elsewhere? Not Etsy, even though I technically still have a shop there). I have so much fabric, and so many needles. I've thought before about making little sewing packs, and I know they're a thing people buy. So this is not a new idea.

I might make up a couple and see if there's any interest.

Anyway, I found a lot of material I had forgotten about or didn't know I had, which is always nice. And some of it is in huge amounts because, as I may have mentioned before, mum used to make her own clothes/clothes for me when I was little. So there is some stuff she never got around to using (such is the way of all things).

I don't currently have any plans to make my own clothes (I would need a working sewing machine for starters), but it's nice to know the fabric is there for other things if I want it.

And, as I say, that's not even all of it. Some of it is downstairs because it's stuff I used for embroidery (or not), and the rest is upstairs, but I haven't got to sorting it yet because I haven't had a chance/the energy. But I will get to it eventually.

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In other news, I watched Johnny play Return of the Obra Dinn, which I thought I would not like, but it turns out I love it? It is a mystery aboard a ship! How could I not? (It's waaaay more interesting than I made it sound, I promise).

They have said they will finish it off on stream, so I guess that's next Thursday afternoon/evening sorted for me already :D

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The only other thing I have to say is that my mood is not so great again, although I think I'm currently flatlining at "constantly depressed" rather than "fairly good mood" which is irritating, but I suppose at least it's stable and I know how to deal with myself (mostly). I know why it is, and I think it's going to take a while to get better, but I know it will get better eventually.

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Now it's time to go and get super lazy dinner and be mad it's too cold (15°C) to eat ice cream ;)