I wrote this post nearly a week ago. For a week I’ve planned to get a photo. I still will – but before I’m no longer 37 weeks, I’m just going to post this. Coming soon… a belly shot, hopefully in below mentioned sewing project! Ugh.
I cut out a maternity dress mid November. I started sewing, but put it away in favor of Thanksgiving prep and forgot about it. I found it last week, and thought I’d better get on it before maternity was no longer my style.
I sewed. I fought with a pattern that ought to be shot for being labeled Simplicity. I’m arrogant enough to think I sew pretty well. I stand corrected. I ripped seam after seam on cheap knit from Hobby Lobby that does not hold up to seam ripping. I googled the pattern and found people who commiserated with me and my disgust with that which was not simple. I found photos of the finished dress, realized what on earth the pattern people forgot to say, and finished it.
Hours and hours later. Ugh. It better be fabulous. Tent like, perhaps, and ironically the stripes run horizontal where vertical would be preferable, and vertical where I’d be okay with horizontal. It’s a sad joke. But it’s done.
Partway through my seam ripping, Elliot grabbed my seam ripper and ran. I called for her to bring it back, and she did. Promptly. Then, with the expertise of a seasoned knife thrower, she threw it. At. My. Head. I ducked, seeing where this was headed, and my dear daughter lodged my seam ripper into my forehead with amazing precision. It stuck straight in and just stayed there. I gasped, Ellie looked instantly remorseful, Sterling stared in disbelief, and I found a tiny, deep cut, refusing to bleed.
I’m fine. Headache, yes, but fine. Elliot, however, may never live that one down. She keeps looking at that little cut and replaying her version of events, swinging her little arm to show me what happened. Baby Bull in a China shop even shocked herself this time.
Charlotte Moore says
Oh wow!! Amazing she could throw that hard enough to stay in your forehead. She cut have one more powerful swing. Thank the LORD it wasn’t any more serious. Bad enough as it was. It could have be much worse. If she had been aiming at you it is doubtful she would have been able to do that. So thankful it wasn’t your eye.
I would never understand a pattern even if it was very simple. HA!!
Kirsten Pankratz says
Wow, that’s awful! I’m always afraid someone will knock the iron onto themselves or the baby will push on the foot peddle and sew over my hand but a seem ripper in the forehead is not one I’d thought of! Glad it wasn’t in the eye! You really do need to post a picture of you in the dress. I hate trying to follow instructions. I cut everything out and look at what it’s supposed to look like and dig in. It seems way harder to try to interpret the directions than to sort of figure it out. I guess that’s a little weird but I come from a long line of women who did that so I guess I can’t help it. lol You are so good at sewing, I’m sure you don’t need directions……unless you’re the type of person who does what they are supposed to. I think I’m rebellious but I watched my mom do everything from reroof the house to reupholster the couch ( All Perfectly!) and she always said, “Forget directions! Let me just look at it and figure it out.” Awesome mom.
Anyway, just a couple more weeks to go for you! Hurray!!
Adrienne says
I’ve had a child attempt to sew my hand… It’s a real fear! I use my iron on a towel on the washer to avoid catastrophe. The seam ripper was not one I had ever anticipated. Funny thing is, the cut is all but gone and yet it still hurts. Odd.
I hate paper patterns because of the directions. I’d have been better off just looking at photos from the beginning. I’ll get a photo of the dress… Waiting for a day in wearing makeup and have a clean house or a sunny day. It might be awhile!
Kirsten Pankratz says
Ohhhh-I’m eating my words! I knew that would happen! I’ve got everything cut out and ironed and I don’t know what to do, it’s sort of different (dress for my oldest). Do I just wing it and hope I don’t ruin anything or try to look at the directions? I think that’s my problem, it’s seems so complicated when I try to figure out what in the world they’re talking about! Ok, enough stalling, here I go…..
Oh-and don’t wait too long for a picture or the baby will be here and you’ll have to wait until you’re 37 weeks along with the next one to show off what the dress looks like! lol 😉
Adrienne says
Eek! Maybe skim the directions and then jump in?!