As the title says I tried to make myself an Easter skirt and failed miserably. I found the cutest skirt here. The Tutorial was pretty straight forward and it looked really easy to make. I followed her guidelines on making the skirt a different size (Sadly I'm a little bit bigger then she is -- height and waist). Not sure how I messed up but after I got 2 of the ruffles on I realized that I had cut my skirt in on the width and not the length. So my skirt is now short and big around instead of the other way around.
Basically I just wasted $19.00 in material. Grrr! It's not salvageable because not all the measurements are off.
Also I am having a huge issue with my sewing machine sewing ZigZag Stiches. You can see from this picture what it's doing. To get around this I just used a straight stitch when I sewed the ruffle to the skirt.
The most frustating part of it all is I thought it was going to be easy to work on so I started this first instead of working on the boys ties and now it's the day before Easter and I don't have an Easter skirt and the boys don't have Easter ties.
I'm frustrated with myself and lack of sewing ability. I keep thinking it's a learned process but I honest think some people are just born with the ability to creat thing with a sewing machine (like my mom) and I just don't.
Saturday, April 23, 2011
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