Sewing disaster
Having made a rather lovely yellow gingham frock for her at the weekend, which she wore to go to mum and dad’s today, I set to making a "posh frock" for her ready to go out again with mum and dad tomorrow! I made it from some velvet and "tartan" (I can safely say it’s not a real tartan, I don’t think any of them have purple metalic threads through them but hey ho) It’s awful. Really, unrelentingly awful. If you don’t hold your mouth just right then velvet is the most unspeakably vile stuff to sew with (but looks lovely so I keep putting myself through the same hell!) and this stuff was obviously possessed by some deamon from the darkest pit. Then there wsa the pattern itself… I didn’t realise the pattern was for a drop waist dress and the skirt dimentions (it’s just a rectangle so there was not pattern piece for it) are a little off - I checked to make sure I hadn’t read it wrong but then realised that it must be a misprint as the size smaller has a bigger skirt! so it’s a very straight skirt which just hangs there looking limp as ther wasn’t enough fabric to gather it and make it flare out at all. And that’s the end of those two bits of fabric as they were both "left overs" from previous projects so I can’t unpick and piece it out with more fabric. I’m not sure I can even shorten the bodice to make it sit at her waist as taht would make for a really short skirt which I don’t like her wearing (cos of those rather gorgeous curvey legs that my darling parents make rude comments about)
So now it’s half past ten adn I’m wondering if I should rummage in the stash again, find a bigger bit of fabric and make another one like the yellow gingham one (lovely pattern, works perfectly but takes for ever) or if I should just go to bed, send her off with the new frock and tell them it’s drop waisted and meant to look like that….. Hello bed…..
still bet it loks better than anything I would try and make!
Comment by HelenHaricot — October 24, 2007 @ 10:30 pm
Don’t do yourself down Helen! Sewing is easy, cut out the bits, pin them together, sew them up! It only gets hard when you start trying to do clever stuff like evening gowns.
Comment by Administrator — October 25, 2007 @ 3:14 pm