I bought this lovely looking pattern the other week, looks simple, classic, bit of a challenge to make but nothing I cant handle. I have been sewing for 2 months and i think i may have just a tinsy bit of an inflated idea of my own ability.
I embarked on it this weekend.
Anyone who has sewn with old patterns knows the joy of translating the scant instructions.
This pattern has a complicated facing that gets sewn on and then turned inside out, now I am about as good at working out spatial things as a blind man is at parallel parking, so it took me 5 goes to figure out which bit gets sewn onto what bit.
but, I did it...
Only trouble is now Ive got it to the point of the top sewn onto the bottom i have realised it A) Is gignormous in the top even though I have altered it heaps
B) Looks like a matrons dress
B) Looks like a matrons dress
C) the colour does nothing for me
What do you sewers do when you have this problem?
I have thrown it in disgust on my chair and plan to ignore it for a week.