Here I am - sitting in front of the computer instead of sitting at my sewing machine. I messed up. Big time! I promised P to sew her the Kehrae tunic from the Ottobre 01/2009 in time for her to wear it to the 70's dance on Friday. I thought - sure no problem. I have plenty of time and it looks easy enough. Especially with three successful patterns sewn up from Ottobre. This should be so easy I could do it in my sleep. Yeah right! I traced the pattern on Sunday, prepped the fabric and read through the instructions as well. I noticed that I wasn't sure how the button part would work up so I decided to do a muslin of just that step. It had plenty of pictures with every step but it was still really confusing. I felt dumb! I begged M for an old Polo Shirt that I could take apart so I could understand what I was doing. It helped a bit but I had to modify it. I was still satisfied enough to get started on the actual project. But since it was already past 2300hrs I decided to wait until the next day.
Today during lunch I cut out the fabric. I had some extra time and started on the sewing. Mistake #1: I didn't read the instructions again and did step 4 right after step 1 - stupid me. I had to cut out the front dress pieces again as well as the button part again. Thank goodness I had enough fabric! I have less than a fat quarter left now.
Fast forward to the evening: I am getting started again. This time I made sure that I was following the steps and everything turned out quite nice! Step 6 arrived: I am supposed to sew the shoulder seams. Then I noticed that the armholes didn't look right. I am comparing the sewn pieces with the drawings, and then it hit me: Oh, no! I placed the front yoke pieces the wrong way!!! I looked if I could save it somehow but I already serged everything in to its place! I told P about my mess up... Needless to say that she was pretty upset about it. I found a fabric store that carries the fabric. I am going to call them tomorrow at 0900hrs and place my order and ask them to rush it. Hopefully it will get here by Thursday and I will get it done by Friday afternoon. I don't know how but it has to work. Wish me luck!
I don't like to post without a picture so I am going to show you the Siiri tunic I made from Ottobre 01/2009. I traced out a 146. It is two sizes too big and a tad too long. by the way, I send that picture to my parents. They said she looked lovely in it but next time not to choose a wallpaper pattern for her. I sure had to laugh about their comment! She chose it and she loves it and that's all it matters!
Tada for now!
K
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