Why am I doing this?

About a year and a half ago, I took my first sewing class and after practicing making straight lines, I made a drawstring pouch. I fell in love! But I wanted to make clothes, not end up with 90 bags in the closet. I bought a sewing machine, and was rapidly taking sewing classes every weekend.

Saying that I bit off more than I could chew, is something of an understatement...in the first few months, I took a "working with patterns" class and decided to make a dress with something like 14 pieces and that I wanted to put pipping on it. If you are new to sewing, the patterns they label as "easy" are NOT easy. I think they literally label everything that way. Eye roll.

The working with patterns class was a 6 class series and I also worked on my project at home as much as possible. When it was done, it did not fit at all. I took an additional 2 open studio classes to get the thing to fit and cursed pipping every minute of every one of them, because it made adjusting the fit a royal pain in the ass!

Now, after a year more of experience, I'm again diving in and have decided to spend the next few months making a Channel style jacket, something of a holy grail for home sewists. Why am I doing this? I am hoping to learn something, not go crazy in the process and end up with a fabulous jacket that I could never afford to buy!

Dress project with the pain in the ass pipping!

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