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December's new fabrics

As I'd mentioned before, I raided the Vancouver location of Gala Fabrics during the last month or so it was open. As far as I know, it did indeed close in the middle of December; I have not been back by it again, but the website says it is now closed. Anyway...
There's what I got. Almost all of it's from Gala Fabrics, the exception being the streaked red knit, which came from Fabrics Etc. In order, they are:

• A wool jacquard skirt length.
• Bemberg lining for the above.
• A short length of heavy silk twill. I'm not sure what I'll do with this, but I really liked the color and the weight.
• Rayon/silk blend jersey; I have some of the Drape Drape books and this might do nicely for something from one of them.
• The aforementioned streaked red knit, which should become a cardigan.
• Linen blend crinkle gauze, for a summer dress.
• A heavy embroidered organza.
• Crushed stretch velvet with a paisley pattern. It's a dark gray that doesn't scan well at all.
• Heavy Bemberg lining. I will probably use this and some of the others from last month for slips.
• Wool/mohair coating.
• English wool doubleknit.

Back, slightly discombobulated

I haven't done any appreciable sewing in the past couple weeks, and to be honest, probably not in the past few weeks. Instead, I've just been working on something vaguely like these Gemma socks, and lately, playing more video games in my free time. I've now become concerned this might be slow-roasting my poor onboard graphics chipset, and I don't really want to end up having to replace a whole lot more hardware (or in some ways worse IMO, software) if I can help it. So I'm giving it a rest until I get a new card, at least. Hopefully that means I get some other things done, like this:

• A cut-and-sew knit cardigan from a dark red fabric I just got from Fabrics Etc. last month.
• Finishing up the handknit greenish cardigan. I'm thinking the front edges could just use a plain rib finish, and then some sort of closure, maybe a zipper. I want something that will tighten those edges up rather than splay them out, and anything much fancier won't really show up in the nubby yarn anyway. Besides, I can just pick up the stitches and keep knitting that part as wide as I want, or until I run out of yarn. If it ended up being wide enough, I could end up with a foldover collar too (maybe with some short rows).
• Finally finishing up that rayon georgette dress. Really, it just needs the hems, figuring out what to do with the bow/collar piece, and maybe fiddling with the sleeve hems a bit if it turns out they won't steam flat.
• Probably some other cold-weather stuff. For example, I got rid of several long-sleeved T-shirts in the move and could stand to replace them.

In general I'd just like to pick up the pace enough for there to be something worth writing about more often. Other than that, I do need to update some things regarding the last couple months: I finished an additional project in November, which I think I completely forgot about and need to re-review; plus, I got several more fabrics from Gala's closing sale in December. I want to update my inventory before I make any grandiose plans for this year.