I've wanted to learn to sew for a long time. However, my mom decided early on that she didn't want to teach me to sew, because as a child she was made fun of for wearing homemade clothes. My grandmother sewed all 5 of her daughters clothes and they all learned to sew as a way of life. As a result, they are the type of people that can look at something on a mannequin and utter in the next sentence "why buy that when I can sew it?"
Really?
How bout you teach me to sew? Mom? Aunts? Anyone?! Okay, screw it, I'm on my own here I see.
So, this Halloween I decided to buy and print off a couple of patterns from the McCall's online store and sew them myself. Mind you, I have very little experience sewing anything. I took a college class and dropped it after the teacher, who was at least 387 years old pissed me off for the last time when yelling at me about seam allowances. I figure if I screw up on a Halloween costume I can blame it on, umm, Halloween. I'll just say "What do you expect? It's a costume!".
My current experience with sewing is somewhere between being able to sew a hem on drapes (I didn't say a straight hem) and making a stuffed panda bear in the sixth grade that far more resembled a lopsided, black and white cyclops than a panda. Ellie (my 6 year old) wants to be a princess for Halloween, so I promised her I would make her a dress. And here I am - wondering what in the heck I've gotten myself into. Thankfully my aunt felt pity on my soul and decided to come over and help me figure all of this out this weekend.
So far, I have the pattern printed and taped together using my new printer (at least that part was pretty easy). I also bought some really pretty satin and organza fabrics to make the dress and I've already heard about 16 times that I'm crazy to try and sew these two as a first timer. Ha! Obviously they don't know me - I learn stuff the hard way. That's how I roll...
I'll let you know later how this turns out 
