I volunteered to make 10 chair pockets for Andrew's class. Okay, I am not a sewer, I have not sewn since 8th grade home ec class but I figured my mom or mother in law who are great sewers could help out if I got stumped. I ventured out and bought the material, I could handle this out on my own, right? Wrong!!! I even washed and dried it like the instructions told me to do. My mom came over a few Saturdays ago to hang out with me and the kids while my dad and Jim went golfing. I asked her to look at the chair pockets and see if my idea of how to do them was correct. I started pulling out the material and my mom's eyes got huge. I couldn't figure out what was going on. She asked me how much material I got. I told her I got the 13 yards the lady told me to get. My mom couldn't believe how much material there was for the ten chair pockets I was supposed to make. This is what it looked like...
(it's hard to tell by the picture how much material is really there)
Well, come to find out I got 90 wide instead of the 45 wide I should have gotten. Now I have enough material to make curtains for Ally's room and few other rooms in my house. I have learned that I shouldn't even buy the material for projects like these without somebody who knows what they are doing. The good news is that my mom helped out by making the pockets (I was quite frustrated with the project) and they turned out perfect!!
3 comments:
Way to go Can! Mrs. Gassman taught us all so well! I guess that is why we turned out to be such good seamstress' Yeah...NOT! I am proud of you for even trying.
Hilarious! That would be something that I would do!! We still can't do it without our moms can we?
LOVE IT! I guess we are both dumb blondes because I wouldn't of known to look for 45 in wide instead of 90. Well, at least you gave mom a huge laugh and a project!
Love the pic of dad with the tutu on his head!
Love you!
Kel
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