I got a sewing machine in March. My excuse for buying it was to make window coverings to keep the sun out of my kids’ rooms. My secret reason for buying it is the dream of learning to sew and one day making my daughter’s prom dresses … let me tell you, I’m a long way from fulfilling that goal!
I’m getting a start on it, though. L wanted to be sleeping beauty for Halloween this year, and my amazing mom bought me a pattern for an Aurora dress. So I bravely walked into the fabric store and came home with this:
Then I stared at it for a few days. I was afraid I would screw it up. If I didn’t cut it, I wouldn’t ruin it, right? Then I got some help from C.S. Lewis, “It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.”
It was nice fabric, but it would only ever be nice fabric, until I did something to make it into a dress. So, I cut it. And I sewed it.
And I got the bodice done. Whew. I think I sweated more over these few scraps of fabric than I did over the rest of the dress!
I know it’s far from perfect, but I am pleased with how it turned out. The skirt is ridiculously full, and she loves it!
To finish it off, the pattern came with instructions for the crown and necklace, so she can really look like Sleeping Beauty (THANK YOU Simplicity, as soon as the dress was done, she insisted she needed a crown, just like the one in the movie!).
Maybe, thirteen years from now, I’ll be posting pictures of her prom dress!
P.S. Wish me luck … S wants to be Snow White!!!
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