I mentioned in my previous post that I have a lot of fabric. Way too much for a person my age who doesn’t sew many BIG projects.

Earlier this year I made about 50 small, snap pouches and donated them to my church for anyone who needed a small, snap pouch, perhaps for the numerous rosary beads that were donated by another parishioner.

Each took two 4×8 pieces of fabric, one 4×8 piece of fusible fleece, a lobster clip, and a snap. Easy.

In joining the Self-Imposed Sock Club I thought I’d make project bags instead of using paper bags to hold the yarn and patterns. A bit more involved than the little pouches but I have plenty of supplies. The project bags would zip closed to keep everything contained. Maybe I’d even make matching notions bags!

I decided to take inventory of all the zippers in my stash. My discovery was quite startling.

I have 76 16-inch zippers and 118 7-inch zippers all in various colors. These are the regular “clothing” zippers. I also have handbag zippers that are more substantial. Once upon a time I had plans for those zippers but those plans have since changed.

Sewing twelve project bags won’t even make a dent!

What am I going to do with the rest of those zippers?