Sewing Adventures Part 1

So for my birthday, Mom and Dad gave me a pattern, material, and notions to make dresses and skirts!  It was one of the very best birthday presents EVER!!!  I've never sewed a dress before, I've done a lot of skirts, and almost finished a shirt, but I've always wanted to try a dress. 
I made the dress with the black fabric first, and it went really well.  It was so exciting to see it come together!  Mom helped with the zipper and other confusing and hard parts, either giving advice or doing it for me, teaching at the same time.  YAY FOR MOMS!!!!
Here's me in it:

We put gathered sparkly fabric on the hem, and it's a spaghetti strap because I hate sewing sleeves (Which I've just figured out) and wanted to be able to choose what color to put under it.  Here it is without my spiffy shrug thing:

It looks good with a lot of colors layered under it, and I happen to be a color-holic, so I'm glad to choose what shirt goes under it.  :D  haha  Many thanks to Jiggers for taking these pictures...
I'm still working on Project #2.  It's a dress that's green with a flower print on it, and will match with black, brown, or white shoes, so I get to have fun with colors with that one that too.  That dress was going to have sleeves because it was going to be cuter that way, but I just finished the top the other day, and it looked gross, both on me, and off me.  So it's back to the drawing board with Project #2.  Mom and I are going to be looking over it tomorrow, and I think something will inspire us, hopefully...  it was at least a good learning experience to be able to sew those STUPID sleeves though, so I'm still glad I did it... I really don't like sleeve sewing.
The third project doesn't know if it's a skirt or a dress.  It'll figure itself out when Project 2 is done.
Thankfully as a Glenn Beck Insider, I can listen to Glenn whilst sewing, and also I can review General Conference, or talk to Mom if she's in there with me, so it's never boring!  The biggest annoyance is not being able to just sew all the time!  haha just kidding
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