If this is any comfort to you, I DO NOT place myself in the category a seamstress. My mother on the other hand is an amazing seamstress who would try and teach me sewing projects only to probably run in her room and scream into her pillow.
There is my famous boxer story. I was about 13 years old and wearing men's boxers were all the rage (barf) so I had my mom teach me how to make some so I could have an array of choices in my sad 90's wardrobe. My first one came out okay (with high alert supervision). My mom decided to let me go on my own and with my crazy need for instant gratification I threw the instructions aside and started sewing away...each pair getting more and more grossly distorted only for the last pair to have only one leg hole, elastic around the waist only pulling at one side and a whole other list of issues. That was my last sewing lesson. EVER.
So I've never been like...yep I'm a sewer. Having said that because I have little sewing experience I have no idea what projects are considered beginning or advanced because I only have those hellish boxers to compare them to.
So I decided to make this:
(if you are wondering what this is, it's a child's stacking toy. It has a separate base in which the circles slide over creating the stack you see here)
and I thought...circles! I can draw freaking circles in my sleep. How hard would it be to sew some circles...seriously! No seriously! IT SUCKS!
I think I even sewed up some new cuss words while making this project. But it was worth it for who I was making it for. This was a gift for my newest little niece, Sofia. And as you can tell with the cupcake motif I am once again living vicariously through someone else's daughter.
I made this in 3 days...so cussing was in order.
It's not perfect but it came out okay by my freakishly ridiculous standards.
The best part was, I showed my mom, and I think she simultaneously peed her pants and shed a tear dumbfounded that her daughter who sews one legged men's boxers could sew this.
Apparently by sewing standards this is something even my mom would never attempt. Maybe I can sew...a little.
xoxoxo
Heidi
This is a pattern by Heather Bailey
I like it. And seriously, how did it not turn out great? Silly girl.
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