Good & bad news.

I had my mom help me put together my dress all week. I'm telling you, the instructions that come with the dress don't help at all. I try & try to read them but I just don't understand. It's like their in Hebrew or somehting. But with a little help from my mom & looking at the pictures, we managed to put it together. BARELY. Yrma told me to try my best, & I did. I worked on it all night. I finally went to my mentor's house yesterday after work, & presented it to her. She said I had put it together all right & she was proud of me! UNTIL SHE LOOKED AT THE DETAILS.
The stitching was on the outside. & it's obviously supposed to be on the inside. I don't know why I didn't think of that earlier. So I had to take it all apart. Oh, but then, she looked at another dress she had sewn, & saw that the layer on top, is supposed to hang on over the dress, & not be sewn together. So I litterally had to take it ALL apart. except the bust part. just the skirt. So it wasn't THAT bad but it was three BIG pieces.
So I'm going to work on it tonight & tomorrow & have it done by the time we meet again.
Which is Thursday morning. AT SIX. Meaning I have to drive deep into Lenoir at quarter to 6. To work on it & maybe start sewing it on the machine.
I just want to get it done!

Last night,

I worked on my dress for a couple of hours. My boyfriend came over & helped me pin a few things & took a few pictures. I've got one more thing to hand sew, then to put it all together & try it on Kala. I also need to buy a 7/9 invisible zipper.
Kala & I are going to go to my mentor's house tomorrow around 5:30.
Expect pictures!
I'm finally gonna take time this weekend to upload a bunch of pictures on my website.
But I think I'm going to make it into a slidshow on photobucket or something.
I just need to e-mail myself all the pictures from my/my mentor's/my mom's phone.

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This morning

I met up with my mentor at my house. We started working on the part where the bust is, which in her opinion is the hardest part; it's almost done.
We thought we weren't going to have enough fabric for the straps, but we managed to cut it out of scraps. So there is nothing left inthe world to cut!

I need to sew pieces together by hand by Thursday, which is when we're meeting again. After that, we need to start putting the pieces together into the actual dress.
Having that done, we are meeting again Saturday morning, because I usually work Saturdays, to work on it some more. Maybe Kala will come with me then, so we can fit it, because we start sewing with the machine. I'm estimating i will have it done by another week.
Piece of cake, right?
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I forgot to mention

Friday after school, I went to my mentor's house for a few hours & worked more on my project :)

Fabric is all cut!

Friday night, I went to my mentor's house & cut all the fabric. It was awesome. We were coming up a little short on some fabric, but we managed to fit it. We worked for a few hours, & it's just so time consuming. Pinning everything, cuttingn it perfectly. I'm basically sewing two dresses, because it has this pretty covering. Saturday morning for a couple of hours before work, I went back to finish pinning both fabric together & start sewing both fabrics together. For the bust, we have to buy lining. So I have to buy that sometime before Thursday, because Thrusday morning, we're gonna keep working on it. Then Thursday night, when Kala & I get off work, we're going to head to my mentor's house to start fitting her. & then immediately start sewing. I'm so scared that I'm going to mess up. So much. But this'll be good experience. Hopefully.

Cutting the fabric!

This morning, my mentor came over around 7. & we got the big pieces cut. I'm going to her house tomorrow night & saturday morning before work to finish cutting the fabric, & start sewing. I've been such a procrastinator about getting everything done. But I really have so much on my mind. I just hope to have this done soon. Or I'll have to explain to the judges why I'm such a failure. Awesome!

6:30 am meetings

My favorite. But not really. I had to wake up at 6:30 & get everything ready to cut the pattern. That is pretty much the only free time my mentor has. We cut out all the pieces to it. I'm gonna work on it tonight, possibly starting the fabric tonight with the help of my mom. Because I honestly think I couldn't do it right, & mess it up forever. I have to buy pins to pin the cut out pieces on the fabric. I'm excited, yet scared. I really hope I don't mess it up. the fabric was like $40! I have picturesssss, & my mom took a video today of us cutting the pattern. I might have that uploaded on here sometime soon, definitely on my website.