I have an Obsidian vault for my creative projects. Different kinds of sewing and yarn crafts.

For garment sewing, I use Threadloop because it's got a UI tailored to just that, in addition to a nice hobby community. Threadloop is especially useful for tracking how I use my yards of fabric across projects.

I've started using Bases recently to great effect in my creative organisation. Example: I have a .md file for each of the fabrics in my quilting stash, with various properties describing it as well as a Project property which contains a link to a file in my Projects folder. I have a Base cards view "Fabric allocation" which has the filter: "file is in my Fabrics folder and has a link to the currently active file". In the project file for that project, I can then embed the base and it will be populated with all the fabrics I have assigned to that project. This is great for visualising patchwork projects which often require many fabrics in different colours.

Another property lists the amount I have of it. Fabric is measured in lengths so I've been noting the quantity I have of it in metres. I'd love a way to keep track of how much I have left after using X amount for Y project. I'd love also if this calculation could be automated as much as possible so it's less error prone.

I'm hesitant to enter my quilt fabrics into Threadloop because in quilting it's common to accumulate a small amount of many different fabrics and I don't think I want my garment sewing stash to be cluttered with 10's of quarter yards of whatever quilting cotton. There's not a lot of overlap for me between fabric use cases (garment vs quilt).

Is Dataview my best option for this? Or is there a different plugin that will let me keep track of these numbers without too much overhead?