u/Purple-Steak-5813

So I went to Morocco and Sri Lanka recently and thought I will get into sewing! So I bought all these fabrics and then bought a sewing machine and have done some basic sewing like hemming, shirring, making a makeup bag etc.
But I have these fabrics and I have no idea what they are where to begin and what to do with them!

1. A medium thickness velvet / velour/ carpet like fabric with white on the back (one sided). It seems it would be too uncomfortable and stiff for clothes
2. A satin fabric that i tried to sew with but it’s so slippery!
3. linen - I know there’s a lot of sewing patterns out there for linen but I’m thinking a co ord?

3 meters

4. A stretchy lace fabric. 2 meters.

5. Good quality cotton

6. Cheap cotton

The main ones I’m hung up on are 1, 2 and 4. Does anyone have any ideas of what they would be good for? It’s just all so foreign to me

Thanks 🙂

Edit: not pictured but I also have a cotton ikea fitted sheet I no longer need that I can upcycle. It’s quite rough to the touch

I’ve had this dress for years! I bought it to wear to more conservative countries. However I hate wearing it as it makes me look huge and I look like a grandma! I still kinda want it to serve the purpose as wearing it in some more conservative countries so don’t want to make extreme changes (but open to suggestions if I won’t be able to make it look cool otherwise)
So far I have shirred the waist (very messy, first time doing it, don’t zoom), shortened the sleeves slightly and slightly raised the neckline as I didn’t like where it sat before. Is there anything else I can try to make it look less like a grandmas dress?
I have a brother jx17fe sewing machine that I’m slowly starting to figure out