A Tiny Disaster
Sara at Sew Sweetness is having a sew along for the Sis Boom Rebecca Shift…so I decided to join. Inspired by this post, I chose Hope Chest by Josephine Kimberling for Blend Fabrics {it’s pictured above}, and got to work. I decided to make a few alterations to the pattern…more on that later, if I actually succeed in making this dress! I actually decided to make my dress similar to the second one Sara made {see it here}.
Anyway, while I was working on my dress, I decided to take a progress shot, and then keep on working in hopes of finishing it last night:
I was actually quite pleased with how it was turning out! And then came disaster…I was serging the edges of the skirt {if you have a serger, you may know where this is going}, and Norah was standing at my leg begging to be picked up. In my distraction, I cut a hole in the belt with the serger! Ahh!
Fortunately, I have enough fabric to cut a new belt…at least it didn’t get the skirt or bodice, then I’d be really out of luck. But, I’d already serged the top part of the belt and had ripped off the skirt once.
I guess a little setback is okay, but now I have to start that part all over again. So much for wearing it to church today. Hopefully it will still turn out, as I was quite looking forward to finishing it!
Do you have any sewing disaster stories? Do you try to fix it or scrap the project? I think for me, it depends on how much fabric I’d be wasting and how badly I want the finished result!
Sewing disasters? One would be the entire outfit out of linen (skirt, vest, jacket, pants) that I decided to french seam to help avoid the fraying… without adding anything to the seam allowance. It threw off the fitting on the entire thing, and when I tried to rip, I had a big frayed mess…. the project was never finished. Plenty of quilting disasters – mostly from mis measuring… it happens…
Sorry Jen, no fun, but I know it will be adorable on you when you get it finished!!
I have a dress I was making for a friend and made a ton of mistakes on, I had to rip out the elastic three times! I had to seam rip the hem and I put the bottom tier on the middle and the middle on the bottom! I finally finished it after two months!
A small boo boo like this is a perfect opportunity for creative embellishment! A little patch covered with a fabric flower or bow would be so cute.
Yes, I’ve had that happen before, it is upper discouraging. I am glad you are going to fix it, the dress is beautiful!
Oh, no, that stinks!! I was scared something happened to Norah for a second though, so I guess overall it’s good it was just the dress–I had momentary visions of little fingers and such–but that super-stinks that your dress got messed up! I hate when things like that happen. I am constantly sewing things together wrong. I’ve done it where I have somehow sewn right/wrong sides together and I’ve done it on the same item several times in a row! It is beyond frustrating. I look at it, put it together, think it’s right, and then wham, out from the machine and it’s wrong. Urrrrrrg! But this is why I do not run a sewing blog!! 🙂
I have done exactly what you did and for the same reason…sometimes sewing and kids don’t mix!! It was like a cut rather than a hole so i pushed the fabric together and put on an iron on patch then sewed a flower on the top rather than putting in a new belt. Happy sewing…your dress looks beautiful!!
Your dress is going to be beautiful. You’ll fix that little hole and forget all about it when you wear it the first time! My biggest mistake when making clothing is cutting pieces too small- especially as I have got a little “chunky” over the years! Then it gets binned! Ugh!
Hello! I sincerely believe that that happened so that you add a mini patch, and a beautiful monkey with two small strips!! It is the perfect place to do so! Thousand of these things have come to me… but I have everything unfinished rather than solve the issue! Why a thousand years ago that I sew anything clothes!
Luck and a big hug!
I reupholstered an antique settee and just as I finished the last section I pulled too hard on the fabric and it ripped.. I put a pillow in front of it. But every time I look at it…I know it is there..Probably time to recover it anyway. This is just beautiful…smiles..Renee
I think the dress is just gorgeous – and definitely worth fixing!! You’ll look gorgeous in it and it will feel extra special – just do it!!
I have every sympathy with the ‘tiny disaster’ with the serger. As someone who has slashed holes in finished garments while cutting a buttonhole, etc. I feel for you. However, the finished article looks lovely. As for servers, don’e get me started. It takes an hour to thread and then one thread breaks half way through a seam.