My daughter turned 23 yesterday. She asked me to make her a
pleated pleather mini skirt for her. She told me that she needed it for the
weekend after her birthday.
On Monday past, we (two daughters and a cousin) went to Mood
to look for prom dress fabric and the pleather. We found the pleather but the
prom dress fabric is a story for another time.
On Tuesday she told me that her co-workers were throwing her
a party on her birthday and that she really wanted to wear the skirt. Well, I
had women's ministry on Tuesday and so I did not have much time to work on it.
Yesterday after work, I started working on the skirt. She
told me that she was leaving out at 10:30, so I put the petal to the metal and
tried to grind out the skirt.... I always make dumb mistakes when I rush.
......
I was watching a tutorial on inserting a zipper and I wanted
to keep the slide out of my way... so I placed the top of the zipper up over
the desired insertion spot, but I forgot to create a new stop! I did a great job. The zipper was great
zipped up! the best I ever did...After sewing the waist band facing and the
waistband along the short edge (right sides together then trim and turn) to create
a clean edge to the zipper tape, I pulled the zipper up again and right off the
top of the skirt. I screamed NOOOO and my grandson, asked me what was wrong. I
told him and he told me not to be too sad. He just turned four last week. I few
minutes later my daughter came in to get dressed and he said "You cannot
wear your skirt because mom- mom pulled the zipper right off the top of the
skirt!"
Needless to say she wore something else and I will be
spending a lot of time with my seam ripper this evening.
You can see the zipper slide on the pattern envelope
Love and Blessing
Dawn
