I had cut out a dress for DD yesterday and really wanted to get it sewn up. It was roughly based on http://www.make-baby-stuff.com/free-baby-clothes-patterns.html but I didn't do the slit as far as her pic shows (pattern doesn't show it so long either) and I divided the back to two pieces instead of 1.
Well interesting afternoon/evening indeed and another lesson learned. Don't sew while you have an almost 5yr old and a 2 1/2 yr old on your own and don't even THINK about trying to sew even when the 5yr old has gone to bed and the 2 1/2 yr old is being incredibly stubborn and distracting and refusing to settle for 2hrs and go back and forth between child and sewing cause the result is:
Sewing up the arm and having to unpick it
Putting the pins in the wrong way so you had to go under the fabric to pull them out from under the fabric as you sewed.
Doing different size zigzag on the left and right armhole edging.
Oh but the winner is, deciding you would french seem it cause the material was horrible with fraying and you don't have an overlocker and you had to still cut a little off with it not quite lining up AND
IT DOESN'T FIT HER *CRY*
Did I mention the velour material I used on the skirt has glitter through it which is now all over myself and my house. ARGH I get the feeling that often times things found at an op shop are there for a reason. :S
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