Who Would Have Thought...

Sometime after I got married, my mother-in-law told me that someday I would want to sew. I don't remember why we were having this conversation, or where we were, or even when it was, but I do remember that inside my head I was rolling my eyes and thinking "yeah, right!" (no offense, Illene). Well, she proved to be right. I just finished my third sewing project of the year (okay, it still needs a hem and button holes, but it is wearable), and I am very proud of myself. Who would have thought that I could make friends with my sewing machine? Okay, I admit it is a love/hate relationship. I can fill a bobbin, but I still have trouble threading the machine right. Someday I will have a self-threading machine. And I admit that I would not accomplish anything without massive patience and help from my mother. I have become quite adept at cutting things out, and I hardly need any help with that part of the project, but the sewing is another story. But I am getting better. I only had to pick out one seam on my latest project, and I did the elastic and gathering all myself. It is just a good thing that I have a mother and a mother-in-law who sew, or I would never get anything finished. Of course, it is faster to get it done when I am only making one item instead of three of everything. But surprisingly enough, the desire to sew is actually there now. If I could just get faster at it, I might find it more enjoyable. I guess that comes with time.

This Christmas outfit is my most recently completed project. Some of my family thinks Ben's mama dresses him funny, but I think he is cute!


I made the girls these matching outfits for Disneyland. I made the pants, and appliqued the t-shirts with their favorite princesses. Two pairs of the pants are only half way hemmed, but they are wearable (and I will finish them).


These are the dresses that I started to make for 4th of July 2006, and actually finished in time for our Washington DC trip April 2007 (with a lot of help from my mom and finishing touches by Illene). I wouldn't recommend Daisy Kingdom patterns as a first project, they are hard!