Let's get this party started!

I have finally started cutting out my pattern!  I'm so happy to start sewing. My pattern is so pretty (a little scary difficult).  This is the book that I'm using for the pattern and instructions.

The dress I'm making.  

The main dress fabric.

The fabric for the ruffles.

I had expected to have a thick paper pattern from which to trace my pattern pieces.  I wanted to trace them instead of cutting them so that I could save the pattern for different sizes.  I was so excited, but when I opened the pattern it was a tissue paper pattern. So, I used thin muslin to trace the pattern onto.  It wasn't easy because the tissue was so thin it was hard to see it through the muslin.  

First one done.  Second one I had to redo twice, but I still could not get it right.  By this time I was almost in tears.  Then mom goes "Oh baby, I forgot all about tracing paper.  It will make this so much easier."  So mom got me tracing paper.  Tracing paper is chalky on one side and clean on the other.  You put the chalky side of the tracing paper on the fabric and the pattern on the tracing paper, and with a tracing wheel go over the pattern.   God bless person that made tracing paper.  It done in about an hour or two.  

  

A picture of the tracing wheel.

Do you like my make-shift weights?  They work!

I have cut all the pattern pieces out of muslin, now I will cut the dress out of muslin.  The instructions said that was the best way to check your fit and make any alterations before the expensive beautiful material was cut.

I'm sorry about the crooked pictures.  I have worked on it for 2 days trying to get them looking right.  I've finally given up.  And I don't know why some of the pictures are on the left side and some aren't.  And I don't know why some of the font is different.  I have spent several days just trying to figure out blogging.  I begged my mom for a while to let me have a blog.  I'm starting to wonder, why.

Score:  Lizzie-0; Blogger-1 2 3!