RE: Summer slump and a heart attack (not really, only a sewing question)
I soooo like your knitting @neumannsalva.. It is soo neat! Mine is always full of holes because of missed stitch - no knitting for me in front of telly.
Since I have started sewing skirts, I must have send signals into the universe that I want to sew more, because friends and family ask me now to alter their clothes.
Haha, I get that too!! Sometimes, I do more alterations than anything. Shorten the jeans, shorten the dress, fix a hole in the pocket, lengthen the shorts. Endless. And to make matters worse, when I am given these alterations to do, I need to wait for my mood to kick in. Else, the garment can sit and wait for a looooong time. And like in your case, I might destroy the dress after I alter it (which I did, I actually shrunk a dress by shrinking the sleeveless neckline - don't ask me what I did, cos I am not sure haha). My mom was upset with me! Hahah..So for your mom's dress, I think I better leave it to the experts because I am not sure what to do either. But I see some really good ideas already in the comments :)
Ooo yay to pattydoo! Thank you for the mention @neumannsalva! Such an irony we were learning from the same sewist around the same time! :) Oh wow pattydoo's Ella dress! Congrats on sewing it! I saw her Romy skirt tutorial too, am really tempted.
I appreciate your knitting praise... but I have a friend who knits so much better than me, so that I only can see the mistakes and uneven stitches while looking at my own knitting :-DDD
And I know exactly what you mean with ‘the mood’ :-DDD I also have a pile of to sew things besides my sewing machine. And with my mother’s dress… I will take courage and cut it. It was a very inexpensive dress and bringing it to a tailor will be more expensive than the dress :-D
Sadly the Ella dress is far from finished. I only tried the pattern for the top part. And as you can see on the photo I have to cut out the pattern anew, because I have chosen a too small size.
And the Romy skirt tutorial is the one which I always watch to sew in a zipper :-DDD But I never made the whole skirt.