My 1st Wearable Sewing Project

A few weeks ago I saw a really cute maxi skirt tutorial on pinterest and decided I needed to pull my sewing machine out of the attic and make one.  I also went to the effort of purchasing material and a few other things to complete it.  I set them in our office and left them there......for about 3 weeks...because I was too lazy to move my car back 10 feet so I could get into the attic to get my sewing machine.

Sunday I went to my BIL & SIL's house for a little while and I was completely inspired.  She had been sewing up a storm and made about 10 different dresses.  They were all sooooo cute!  She had maxi dresses and shirt dresses in every color and pattern you could imagine.  She showed me the tutorial that she used and I immediately decided that my maxi skirt was now going to be a dress.  I pulled out the sewing machine when I got home Sunday and picked up a bright red tank top (and a few others) Monday after work.

And then last night I got to sewing.  I'm not going to lie, all of the cutting made me nervous.  I am a bit OCD when it comes to things being lined up and straight so I had this fear that I was going to end up with a crooked dress with holes in it and random seams going all over the place.  The only snag I hit (no pun intended) was after I sewed the top to the bottom the first time, the dress hit me at really awkward middle-of-my-knees length....not cute.  I patiently seam-ripped the entire top off the bottom (my eyes were crossing by the time I finished), and cautiously cut another 3-4 inches off the skirt. I sewed it back together and voila! I had a super cute dress!  I started out using this tutorial and used her technique for sewing everything (and using the elastic thread!) but also used this one for a little bit of clarification on folding the shorter version of the dress (the 1st one was a maxi and I got a bit confused at the beginning when she was talking about folding--maybe if I were a more experienced sewer it would have been fine).

My dress that I MADE!

It's a pretty basic dress, but I added a belt and some accessories and I had a super cute outfit! I think I impressed Eric, too!  He asked me when I was going to make a purple and yellow one for THS games.

I am that girl who likes to wear new stuff as soon as I possibly can so I am wearing this bad boy to work today. =) I wore it with my heels and added a cardigan since my office temp is comparable to Antarctica.

I have a feeling that my closet will soon be full of lots of cute tank dresses in the very near future!  I have 2 old curtains I made to cover doorways when I lived in an apartment that I found when I pulled my sewing machine down that I will soon be wearing!

P.S.  Please say a prayer for our little Cricket girl....we think she got bumped by a car yesterday and had a pretty bad road rash.  She is pretty roughed up but we're taking good care of her. She's a fighter!