ALMOST DONE

I present tomorrow & I'm still not completely done with the dress, hahaha. I worked on it all last night, adding decorations & finishing the bust & the train. Today after school Kala & I went to Yrma's & tried it on for the last time. We're burning the ends of the skirt, putting the zipper on, & I have to put the train on tonight. I'm going to Yrma's early tomorrow morning to ensure everything, & then tomorrow's the big day. Wish me luck!

5 am

I had to wake up at 5 in the morning & meet Kala at the college so we can drive to Yrma's & try on the dress. I thought we were totally done. But we had to fit it & fit it, & fit it. We have to take the top off & take it in & as well as the back. So I have to go back tonight & work on it a lot more.

Zip zip

I've realized how much I don't like zippers. I actually really like zippers, but I just hate sewing them on. It's very confusing. I went to Yrma's around the usual time, 6am. Sewed some more of the dress, put the zipper on, & brought over the tulle I bought yesterday for the train.
I'm going back tomorrow morning to finish it up! Then Thursday night, I will take Kala to try it on one more time, cut some from the bottom, burn the bottom & it's FINITO! :D

iron this & iron that.

This morning I went to Yrma's house around 6. We hadn't done anything over Thanksgiving break, because we were swarmed with family, so there was no way. Everything is pretty much sewn. I had to iron some things, especially the skirt. We have to put the skirts together on the machine, & the bust as well. Then it's done. Yrma's daughter is letting us borrow her veil. So that's another check on the list. I think we're still gonna make the train, which I have to buy the fabric for today. It depends. Then add a few decorations here & there & it's complete :D

I'm going back tomorrow morning to work on it some more.
Mr. Beane said that the product needed to be finished by today, so I'm going to try my hardest to finish it by this week!

I got home at midnight

Last night I went to Yrma's to work on what I thought was almost done. So we were going to put it on the machine after dinner. I thought I was done taking the dress apart & sewing by hand for the rest of my life. But I was so wrong. We had to take everything apart, pin it & leave an inch to sew. So out I took pins, needles, white thread & my handy dandy measuring tape. The bust was perfect, so we didn't have to worry about that. Put the skirt on the machine, until our eyes couldn't stay open.

We only have a little more to go. It sucks that I can't work on it again until Monday morning.

But in the mean time, I have to buy 'tulle' for the train we're making & the veil. I think those will be easy as pie. We might even borrow someone else's veil, because that's extra & not part of the deal, Mr. senior project :p

well I'm off to enjoy my Thanksgiving break.

till Monday, blogger. Till Monday.

6 am meetings!

So this morning, I met Kala at the college at 5:45. Got to Yrma's around 6. She wasn't even up! But we got her up & immediately started working on the dress. It was put together except the bust. So when started putting the skirt on her, it was about 4 times her size. It was awful. I guess I measured her wrong or something. So, we started pinning how much we needed to take off, when we decided to just take it apart & cut the pattern but in the smallest size. So it went from 16 to 12. Now, I'm not gonna lie; we put that dress together in an hour & a half. Like, completely. What it took us to do in a month, we did in like 2 seconds. the bust was perfect, & it looks so great. We're going to make a little train at the back of the dress, as well as a veil!
The dress already looks gorgeous. I'm going back tonight to put it to the machine :D
I can't wait to just finish this. She said she might use it for her actual wedding :D

I'm so excited.

Nervous.

Today in class, we started practicing for presentation day. Mr. Beane made us all go up one by one & practice how we're going to start our presentation. Hopefully it'll get a lot better.

I just finished sewing the skirt. I'm going to go to Yrma's house tomorrow morning. I'm just dreading getting up that early. Kala & I ran into her at the library, & we're all going to meet Friday at Yrma's house to try the dress on Kala. Then start sewing it!

Excitedddd.