Sewing Plans for 2012

I am seriously considering working on the SWAP 2012 challenge.

'Cause I really need to do some sewing pour moi!

I am not AT ALL sure I can get all that sewing done....But it is certainly making me think about sewing plans for this spring.

It's just that I also have Home Decorating plans, as well as the small matter of taking three seminary classes AND teaching a science class at the homeschool co-op!

The rules for the 2012 SWAP (basically) specify sewing seven different pieces, and then repeating four of them for a total of eleven items.  The primary aim is developing some Tried-N-True patterns to use!  Because I mostly wear skirts or dresses, and I really need some dresses (!), I am sewing another dress to substitute for slacks or jeans.

I've chosen:
Blouse (twice)                
T-Shirt                         
Dress (twice)
Another dress (twice)             
Skirt (twice) 
Jacket item (cardigan)                  
Overcoat    ALREADY COMPLETED!

Here's what I'm considering:

via Olioboard

Yikes, those pictures are a bit small!

With pictures just a mite larger, here's what I'm thinking:
Four dresses----

Butterick 5556, which seems ever so popular, out of a black and white sorta slubbed crepe.  A good winter dress for Texas.

A vintage reproduction 1931 Butterick from Vintage Fashion Library.  I have decided to make the second-from-the-left V-neck dress out of a rayon/wool crepe.  Another winter dress.

A now OOP Simplicity dress (the V-neck dress) that I've had cut out since last summer, from a slightly crinkled black-and-white cotton.  This would work well with a black sweater in early spring here.

And a Crepe that I fitted last summer and have halfway cut out!  For spring and summer. (Maybe for Easter?)



The red wool jacket, of course, for wintertime,

And then a cardigan (black--I haven't found any fabric for this yet) with a free pattern from Indygo Junction.

A 1950's wrap blouse (sorta 30ish, don't you think?) from a black-on-black cotton:

I'd also like to make a shirt.  I have the New Look pattern that you can spy on the board, but truly, I don't think that's what I want to do.

Something to ponder.

A tee-shirt with the free Hot Patterns pattern from fabric.com

 Pretty loud for me!

Then two skirts, one with pleats front and back from a rose raspberry pinwhale corduroy (a vintage Butterick)---

and a black wool crepe from this Simplicity pattern:

Whew!  Think I can do this?

Seminary starts back next week!