What happened with my sewing list?

The 30th of September I made a sewing list in my journal. Three months later I though it would be interesting to see what I've done. There were originally 11 things on this list, although some of them were scheduled not to be made before summer, so that they would still fit my fast growing girls when they actually should use them.

I have either finished or made quite a lot of the following five projects:

* A Herjolfsnes dress of dark green handwoven wool. Hand sewn. DONE! No pictures yet.
I had intended to make it with long sleeves but ran out of fabric so I made the sleeves elbow length. This makes me think that I need to buy handwoven wool for a under dress too. If the top layer is so authentic, shouldn't the middle layer be that too? I want to use a plain weave with linen warp and wool weft, but it's 100$/meter and I will need four meters. Too expensive right now at least.

* Hoods to Valeria and Vendela of handwoven wool, also hand sewn. DONE! and can be wieved here

* Loose kirtle for my 16th century flemish dress. UNDERWAY. New update with picture of the decorative bands.

* A very pale green chainse, which is my first try where the fabric is pleated finely to a band around the neck. I haven't attached sleeves yet. Entirely hand sewn. DONE! No pictures yet.

* A red 12th century dress of a little heavier wool to wear at winter events. It will be in the "bliaut-style" with sidelacing and long hanging sleeves. DONE! No pictures yet.

To dye or not to dye

I'm trying to decide if I should buy new fabric for the black velvet gown that goes along with my loose kirtle or if I should dye some of the perfectly good yellow velvet I already have.
Dyeing something black can be difficult and I wonder if it's worth the price of the dye + all the effort compared to buying black velvet. Of course that would cost at least three times as much but I would only need to prewash it.
On the other hand I really have too much fabric as it is. There is _no_ place for any more fabric and getting rid of five meters of velvet would certainly improve the situation (Not the garb closet situation, but I'm currently trying to sell/give away a lot of my old garb to make space for more). I also have no real use for yellow velvet since unfortunately the light colours and pastels seem to get out of fashion by the time velvet starts being used for clothing. This is an over simplification, there are exceptions, but as a general trend. And I already have an nice Cranach dress in dark yellow with blue guards (I have to loose 20 kilos to wear it, but that's my goal anyway) and i don't think I need any more.

Well friends, what do you say? To dye or not to dye?