
In a foolish moment, I bought a pattern for a dress I thought my daughter could wear for Easter.  It was cute.  It was fairly inexpensive.  I can sew - how hard can it be?  I've made clothing before.  Sure, it's only been costume items - a super-easy princess dress and some clown pants, but there are instructions, right?  Then, delusions still firmly in place, I went one step further and actually bought the fabric.  There was no turning back now.  To make matters worse, I put off making the dress until tax time.  Taxes trumped dress & I didn't start the thing until Thursday before Easter.  How 


much time should one little dress take?  I'll tell you. FOREVER!  Technically not 
forever, since I actually finished it, but I think I went a little more gray while making it.  Most of the gray was stressing over putting in the zipper, which I didn't think was part of the pattern when I bought it.  I swear that little requirement showed up after I bought fabric.  Really, I do.  I'm proud to say that it only took one try to get it in & it looks fairly good for my first one since 7th grade home ec!
Most importantly, my daughter looked adorable in her little dress Easter morning!