Sewing Beginner

Super Beginner

So here's the deal, my friend [TooReal] and I have begun to sew. Each of our reasons for sewing vary, I wanted to learn to sew more so to hem pants for the boys and to upcycle shirts and long skirts for myself and to learn to make accessories like ties and vest but anywho.... I started messing around.

First, I suck at learning things, I tend to not want to take baby steps. I want to jump right in and do complicated things knowing goodness well I should learn to thread the machine first. Cortney had to come fix my machine for me because whenever I would sew the thread would bunch up under the fabric. She definitely got to laugh at me, I had the thread on the bobbin winder instead of the spool pin! The tension was wrong, so I called the company. The sent me a PDF version of the instruction.

Sewing first

So as you may have noticed I jump from craft to craft, this time it was sewing. I made a conscientious decision to not purchase a dress from a store for my command Christmas party so I went hunting for an easy dress to make. I Google searched and looked on Pinterest and ran across SewPetiteGal.

She created this simple and easy to make dress that I loved.

But of course two things happened, it didn't come out the way I wanted it to and I had other visions in my mind of what I wanted it to look like in the end. 

I followed her instructions and made the one shoulder dress, which was fine, but for some reason I am fasinated with trains (maybe because it makes me look shorter! Sure that's what I will tell myself!!) So I added one some kind of way. (Needless to say it didn't look good)

this is the color of the fabric I chose. The blue interlock of course for the dress and the organza for the train I decided to add. This is how it turned out...

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not cute!

So I started playing around with the sewing machine (by the way the dress is only the third thing I ever tried putting stitches in by machine) and laying the fabric on my body different ways and landed a great look. So I added jewelry and took funny photos!

                         sexy huh!!                                   

But that wasn't good enough! Then it turned into this.....

 still not too bad, but there's that train again!!

But after a couple hours for a couple days I decided I can be myself. I want a sexy retro look with a new twist. All those years of seeing 1930's, 40's and 50's movies I wanted to be old school beautiful.

So I bought long black gloves, rhinestone jewelry (bracelets, earrings, necklace and rings) and pinned my hair up and under like the lady in 007 Skyfall. I even jeweled the shoes. All in all I love the dress I made and I felt beautiful in it.

 

 

   and I made a poncho style coat!!

Learned a few sewing things but all in all I was more than happy.

Thanks to my friends Kay and TooReal for putting up with the emails asking for their opinions!!