My Latest Project

One of my friends at work is having a baby in a couple of months [everyone at work seems to be pregnant these days].  She invited me to her baby shower a couple of weeks ago.  I wasn't able to attend, but I still wanted to make her a cute gift.

I think homemade gifts are great.  They take time and effort, which I think really shows how much the gift-giver cares.  I mean, if you didn't care a whole lot, you'd just go and buy something off of the registry, right?

Anyway, back to the gift.  I wanted to sew something up, but didn't want to do a quilt.  That's all I sew, so that seems like a strange statement, right?  I found a cute pattern while shopping a few weeks ago and decided I wanted to try my hand and sewing baby clothes.  The pattern said it was easy, so how hard could it be?

I think I talked it up in my mind so much that I made it more difficult than it really should have been.  There were a few times that I had to just walk away for a couple of hours or read the pattern 87 times and flip my fabric over and around before figuring out which direction it was supposed to go.  Of course, after I finished, I couldn't understand why I thought it was so hard in the first place.

I dropped the gift off this afternoon at work since I wasn't able to attend the shower.  I had a deadline, too.  The girl is going PRN at the end of the week and doesn't live in town, so I had to get it to her quickly.  The dress turned out well.  I'm crossing my fingers that it doesn't fall apart in her washing machine six months down the road, especially since my name is on the tag!

What do you think?  Future Etsy store merchandise?