So far I have completed three pair of underwear and have several more cut out and ready to sew up. I have one pair of long pants cut out and ready to sew and many more sweaters prepped and ready to cut.

But the serger wasn’t working properly and I spent several hours getting that fixed. It works great now. But in the meantime I decided I needed more thread so I got more thread. And while I was at the store I also got stretch cotton for the crotch liners. And I bought more stretch lace so I’m really all set to sew now.

We are finding that the price of cashmere is going up. It’s difficult at this point to say how far spread the problem is but in some areas all of the cashmere sweaters have been priced much higher than every other piece of clothing. So while the rest of the sweaters are four to six dollars each, the cashmere sweaters in the same store are twenty dollars each. This isn’t reasonable in my opinion. I can’t pay twenty dollars for the sweater and still make a profit when I turn that sweater into something else. And frankly if the sweater is in really good condition then I’m not going to cut it up anyway. I will pay ten dollars for really large ones or ones I can wear that are nice or even really desirable colors like white and yellow that are larger. I’m fortunate in that I already have a large stockpile of sweaters to work with so I’m not constrained in having to pay large sums for base materials.

I also have a good number of alpaca sweaters. I haven’t figured out what I’m going to do with those yet but for the most part they are much larger sweaters.

Now I have to get back to the sewing room….