I swear, stuff is wearing out faster than I can replace it. And I hate the internet.

[chowmama]

To be fair, a lot of it is decades old. But I'm obviously at the end of a wear cycle.

The latest is a Pendleton wool bathrobe. It was originally bought by my mom for my older sister's first husband. Mom bought gifts throughout the year and hid them away till Christmas. Unfortunately, due to the number of distractions in her life, she often forgot where she put them. December was an ongoing scavenger hunt and the closer it got to Christmas, the more it looked like a nut hunt by squirrels on crack. The last week was often spent buying a few replacements for the things she never did find. The bathrobe turned up when they moved, by which time my sister was on her third husband, who was not at all the same size. She held it up at Christmas and said "Who wants this?". And it was mine for 25 years.

I loved it, but the back is more hole than wool. Nothing to scavenge, even; it's in the garbage. I went online (I know, but the stores near me stock mainly acrylic fleece) and got some relatively inexpensive fleece-lined cotton terry knit. It claimed to be medium-heavy in weight.

It just arrived. It's light weight. On the one hand, I like it as fabric - the knit side is a coffee-chocolate brown and the fleece side is a brownish greyish taupe. It'll make some lovely long underwear. What it won't make is a bathrobe.

So I'm theorizing, designing in my head. If I pull out the raglan sweatshirt base pattern yet again, lengthen it to mid-thigh, make a keyhole neckline with a simple button and just flip extended sleeves to the right side to make fleece-side 3" contrast cuffs and also use the fleece side to bind the neckline, add patch pockets (not contrast) and a slightly curved hem, I'd have a nice sleep shirt. Maybe with matching pants. Or lengthen it further to make a full caftan.

And the rest can be long underwear. I got 5 yards of 72" wide, so there's lots to play with. Maybe I can get along without a bathrobe...

[niyad]

1. Sounds like you have this well in hand.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. I rarely buy fabric over the internet. I want to see and touch it. I once bought

some Damask on Ebay that was listed as robin egg blue. When it arrived, it was turquoise.