Good point about the recession.  I’ve already been feeling that fabric prices are going up.  I don’t have a clue how much is in my stash by length, but I do have a list in my head.
Now as for patterns, I’ve recently discovered PDF’s.  Especially Style Arc.  My stash of those is on my laptop....in private, lol.

That’s a lovely job you’ve done there.  Well done.

My daughter needed a black dress.  Not really being into clothes, she didn't know where to start, so I took a deep breath and suggested I make her a little black dress... and she agreed.  So, for the first time in 20 years, I made my daughter a dress.

https://jaycotts.co.uk/collections/patterns_dresses/products/nl6429-misses-dresses     View B

It has a French Dart, which turned out to be interesting, because she is breastfeeding.  LOL  I pin-fitted her before she fed the baby, but when I fitted the dress, she had just fed the baby and had dropped a cup size    We decided to leave it as it was, to allow room for expansion.  Luckily, the pucker in the dart disappeared as the day went on.

My next project is a Christening Gown.  No French Darts in that, 

That is going to look lovely

I have a Pfaff embroidery machine which I bought from my relatively local supplier.  I would like some software to play with and am currently running the free version of the Pfaff software which seems quite user friendly.  I can buy the software from my local shop, and get all the support I need but the most basic package is £400 ish.  To get the next stage, It goes up to £755!

I could use Embrilliance, but I learn best from having somebody showing me what to do and answering questions, I wouldn't get that if I bought Embrilliance, which costs a fraction of the Pfaff software - aprox £130.  I've tried the demo version and it is so limited that I can't really play with it.  I've watched some of the YouTube videos with Lindee Goodall.

I've tried the demo version of Embird and couldn't get away with that at all, despite it being another reasonably priced package.

I've seen a couple of gorgeous patterns on a site called https://indiesew.com/.  It's similar to The Foldline, and I've seen a couple of patterns that I would really like to make.  You can get them as PDF's, but the 2 patterns, plus the 20% tax came to more than $30.
That is a similar price to Vogue patterns, which don't need printing.  I appreciate that Vogue can be more economic because of the quantities they produce, but the price of the printed version of an indie pattern is only a couple of dollars more than the PDF.  This does not encourage me to buy.

Does anybody else feel like this, or am I just a tightwad?

You have done a beautiful job on the corset, I didn’t know they had to be worn in.

I love your choice of colours.