I am sewing, daily sewing...

I have become the local seamstress. It started on March 6 when I was at a Relief Society party and Heather asked me to make her prom dress. She wanted a dress like Belle's yellow gown (Disney's Beauty and the Beast), and since she obviously wouldn't find one in any store she needed someone to make it for her. I agreed. [More on the prom dress later--when I have pictures.]

At about the same time, Brandon was looking at clothing patterns while I was shopping the craft department at Wal-mart. He found one he liked and said he'd like to make it for his little sisters. Brandon is only 10, and has never done any sewing, but I figured he could at least do some of it. I hadn't planned to make new Easter dresses for the girls, but if he wanted to learn to sew--making something for the girls--then I'd do it after all. I really did end up making the dresses myself, but they were easy and cute. But what I really wanted to do was make a dress for myself, so I did that too.

Soon after Easter my brother asked me to make his daughter's costume for the school play she was in. OK. I also had to make Lindsey's costume for the play (they go to the same school). And in the middle of all that a friend asked me to make a Little Red Riding Hood cloak for her little girl's birthday. And of course I said I would.

I've got all those projects done now. So far, so good. But I still want to make myself another dress or two (it's been a while), and my three littlest need nightgowns. It's a funny thing...I've done almost no sewing at all for---a really long time. Now suddenly I am swamped in sewing projects. It's OK. I really enjoy it. And I like to see my finished work--because, Dang! I do a good job!