Oh, it's one of *those* evenings

[chocolatepot]

So this dress I've spent all last weekend, every evening this week, and about four and a half hours this evening working on - I hate it. It looks awful, it's uncomfortable, and worst of all, somehow the overall impression is "shitty 'prairie' costume for fifth grade school play". You may know that I don't like the Sense & Sensibility pattern, but the dresses that come out of that are far and away more attractive than this one.

The kicker is that while the fit is admittedly not great (the armscyes are too small, not cut deep enough in front; the waistline could be about an inch higher all the way around; I don't feel like taking the time to articulate what's going on with the neckline), the biggest issue is the fabric. It looks like something you'd make a flannel granny nightgown out of. Sometimes I just feel like the most useless idiot. I'm really not 100% sure why I try, given that literally everything I produce just makes me feel horrible about myself.

And then the pink Kohl's dress I was thinking of as a backup? That looks awful on me as well. I'm still going to TulipFest for socializing, but considering what I'm going to wear to any extent is making me feel physically sick.

Comments

[lliira]

:( I'm sorry you're feeling so bad about this stuff lately.

[chocolatepot]

Oh, thanks. It happens whenever I sew anything - the gulf between my physical skills and my knowledge is pretty big, frustration is inevitable when I look at basically hundreds of images of gowns and work out how they're constructed in my head and am not able to actually replicate it. 'Tis life!

But it came out all right in the end! I moved the hook & bar at the bottom of the closure over to pull the bodice tighter, and basted the neckline down so it didn't gap as much. Seeing it in the cold light of day rather than the fuzzy light of midnight made the fabric look less crap, too.