Sewing Dilemna

 I was working on a test fabric for my Danielle blouse.  I cut it all up, marked the darts etc.  When I started sewing the stitches were so wacky.  I rethread but the stitches were still skipping and nesting etc.  So I tried sewing on good cotton and what do you know?  NO problemo.  I didn't know there were such bad local cotton :(  After all that time and effort ... sigh ...

So I took out my other GOOD cotton and promptly realised that I did not have enough fabric to make the Danielle or JJ Blouse (Burda Style freebie).  Because it required 55" width instead of 45" width.  I could sew another Patricia tunic but I wanted to try something different.  You know to improve my sewing skills and my reading and understanding of patterns :) So I am now using my 1.5M cut of white linen with 60" width for the JJ Blouse.  The Danielle couldn't fit and the JJ blouse just barely and that's even after I removed all the cut out for the ruffles.  No ruffles for me!  First I reduced the length of the blouse by 1" then when I was pinning I found I got a little more fabric left and then I added the 1" again.  It's almost all cut, need to mark them and sew as much as I can tonight before I go to shop to serge tomorrow.