Homemaker Sally

So, I haven't blogged lately because of Thanksgiving, running around doing showers, errands, worrying about a sick cat (who threw up all over my nice carpet, but Daniel deals with the throw up) and work.
Somehow during all of this fan fair, I was able to make a dress. I was impress that I was able to finish it. I have never sown more than a shirt, and it couldn't have difficult things on it like buttons, zippers, and taping. I don't know half of the stuff their talking about! It all started when my best friend, Jody, was getting married and I needed a black dress. Now, I could just have any old dress, but the "Little Black Dress" that every girl should have, and I thought that my time had come to have that little black dress. I couldn't find anything I wanted which bummed me out. I then got the brilliant idea to make my own! So, I found the pattern, which the only one I liked was a Vogue pattern (which usually sells at $30 a pop, but was on sale for 3). Now, Vogue apparently I learned after I bought it, is a very specialized pattern that has to be tailored this and that way with instructions that only a seamstress would know what they are talking about and this was the "facille" or easy pattern. Anyways, I spent a day and half putting together a sample dress. I nearly had to start over because I cut off some indicator marks, but I used some forethought and fixed. Finally, I got the dress together, the sample makes me look like pink cotton candy, and it lays kind of stiff, but that was because I used cheap fabric. I have started on the real dress and it is turning out to be fabulous.