I HATE this dress!! It is not a nice dress!! It looks innocent enough, I know. But do NOT be fooled!! This dress is VERY VERY VERY mean! I finished this part over 1 or 2 months ago.
Then came the ruffle. I know how to make a ruffle. Very simple. Except I have had TO RIP apart this ruffle 4 times before understanding what they intended for me to do! It is now ready to become a ruffle, but now I am mad at this ruffle and this dress. So it remains in this state!
The dress will look like the little green plaid dress on the pattern below. But not today! Today it will stay in the incomplete phase. I am holding a grudge against this dress and I am NOT ashamed to say so!! If my daughter wasn't aware of it, I would burn it! But she keeps asking me if the square dress (due to the plaid squares) is finished yet. So she may be traumatized if I burn it.
I was so frustrated with this pattern that I've made two items since I began sewing this one. I had to make something I liked so that I knew I could still sew! haha I made the white halter dress my daughter is wearing, in my blog-header, and this, but I cannot finish this "Easy" plaid dress. I just haven't blogged about this dress because it is EVIL! EVIL I tell you!! :) I will finish this dress eventually, once I am over my grudge, and I will not write a word. Well, maybe I will write "THERE". And that will be that! Thanks for letting me vent. Have a good day! :)
Monday, July 2, 2007
This is NOT my favorite!
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you crack me up!! i know how frustrating some sewing projects can be.....BEEN THERE!! but PERSEVERE.....God may be trying to teach you a life lesson with that doggone ruffle!! ha ha
I have had those frustrations sewing at times also and have thrown things away I started just so I don't have to look at them anymore. I also get frustrated when I finish something only to find out it just wasn't a very good pattern and doesn't fit well. Also some of the instructions can be very confusing.
It must be the pattern and NOT the seamstress!
My mom sewed a lot of my clothes as a child. I do remember the Smurfette material she bought to make me a dress. I was so excited! But it never got made and I always wondered why the fabric showed up again (in my teens) as a gown for my mom, which my sister adopted during her first pregnancy. I always wondered why I never got my dress. I guess she must've gotten mad at it at some point before the cuttin' began!
I JUST noticed that the plaid ALMOST matches. Now isn't that par for the course!! I think I will hate this dress forever!! :)
I love the fabric though!
Haha! Isn't it amazing how frustrated we can get at projects that are supposed to be simple, but SO aren't!?
Good thing you have your blog (and us readers!) to vent through!!!
Hope your next venture goes a lot smoother!
If it helps, you're doing a whole heck of a lot better than i could even dream of doing with that pattern!
Jane, P&B Girls
I'm just so impressed that you've made it that far. Like I've said before, I CANNOT sew!!!
Finish that dress for that precious child before she outgrows it!!!
What are you still doing reading this??? Now get busy!
(Yeah, I've never claimed to have the gift of encouragement either!)
;-)
...and that is why I quit sewing!
Look you are entitled to get mad! You can sew...appreciate it and send the defective dress this way! ::snickering::
I'm a "good ol country girl" and I would give a toe to know how to sew (it doesn't count if I sew something and end up with a broken machine~3x in my life thus far.)
Well good luck in the future!!
P.S. You can send all homemade hand me downs to...LOL
Fun blog. Found you through "Let the Song Out." I cannot imagine sewing anything beyond a button to a shirt. I will return.
leeannmiller.net
"Stik a Fork in It"
Hey, at least you can sew! I am challenged in that department. What you have done so far looks adorable! Happy Tuesday!
My Mom made many of mine and my 2 sister's clothing growing up and I remember her just having great joy doing that. Me...never found that happy place when sewing. Find a happy place, think on past sewing victories. Your blog is entertaining. I'll be back!
YOU CAN DO IT SEISTER!!!! Sorry I have been out of the blogging world a few days I am trying to catch up.. LOVE YA
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