Thursday, March 20, 2008

This shirt is my nemesis!


I found this pattern on the JoAnn web site. It appealed to me because it's customized -- you enter your measurements and they email you a pattern designed for you! But the instructions are minimal in the extreme, with no diagrams and terminology that professionally-trained dress makers in my class at Eddie's hadn't heard of.

After months of working on it on-and-off, and much help from the instructor at Eddie's, I finally finished it, only to find that the ravelly fabric I bought at JoAnn's would literally be the shirt's undoing. I'm in the process of going back over every seam with a tight zig-zag stitch.

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