yesterday I went and picked out a
dress pattern that I saw on
this blog. It seems pretty versatile; sleeves, no sleeve, silky fabrics, 100% cotton, pattern, solid...
Anywho I was a little discouraged last night because I couldn't fin
d my pins to cut out the pattern (my LEAST favorite part of sewing, with washing and drying the fabric being a close 2nd. Can you tell I'm impatient?). So i waited until this morning to tackle it so that I would have time to look for and think about where the pins could be.
Sleep did me no good and i ended up using 4 pins total and cutting one piece then taking out the pins. And on top of all of this, my sewing scissors decided to no longer cut ANYTHING let alone fabric so i searched for the sharpest scissors in the house and it took my over an hour to cut the whole thing out. I'm not sure what motivated me to keep
going but i did. And I'd set out from the beginning with a mission to follow the pattern EXACTLY (another thing I'm not great at) so that goal was still looming in the air, but I am happy to say that in about 2.5 hours I have a perfectly wonderful dress that is EASILY worth all the trouble it caused me! I did add a few little details of my own. The neckline both in front and back seemed a little big for me so i added some small pleats like the ones in this dress and that worked nicely. **side note, i LOVE this picture. It's one of my favs :)
I am happy to say that I had little trouble with the zipper and following the seam allowance actually DOES make a difference :) Everything worked out great except for the part where I can't get a good picture of it to share... so I will wait until Seth gets off work and have him help me out. I want the picture to do this dress justice!
And double bonus is that I had such faith that it would work out that I bought fabric for a second dress which i am looking forward to tackling once i get better scissors and maybe find the pins. and the fabrics was between $2-$3! And whilst looking for the pins I did find a few extra zippers in my stash that will work with the other fabric so over all... I think the positives win out, but seriously folks, it was a nail bitter ;)
I'm hoping to make a bag sometime in this weekend (if I get homework done) or maybe next weekend before we venture to Wyoming for the Holiday.
Here is my inspiration picture:
Happy weekend and happy summer!!!
PS I even Hemmed the dress already!
