It's All Greek to Me!

I just bought a new sewing pattern for a dolman shirt, b/c I found awesome fabric when I was at work— and the pattern says EASY. It says, and I quote ” sehr leicht, tres facile, very easy, muy facil.” There are 4 pieces of fabric I have to deal with. I thought, Awesome, this is gonna be a quicky project, I’ll have it done in no time.

WRONG. The idea and design might be easy, but holy crickets is the wording/ what they want you to do crazy confusing! The writers of sewing patterns can’t seem to comprehend that we, the sewer, cannot read their minds/look over their shoulders as they work on this project, so saying things like “fold this facing in” or whatever is confusing! That’s not even nearly the worst direction they give. They DON’T USE FULL, PROPER SENTENCES. If my English teachers saw me do this, they’d slap me. No just kidding, my teachers never hit me. BUT seriously, this is ridiculous. Facing in where, people? Facing me, facing the right side of the fabric, the wrong side, WHERE!?

Ugh. Ridiculous. Ridikulus. My boggart would be these instructions. J/K… kinda.

ANYWAYS. End my rant about how sewing patterns marked EASY are written to make the project too frustrating to understand. So when my mom asked “so are you actually going to follow a pattern this time!?” and I said “yes, probably,” I didn’t know how wrong I was. I’m gonna do this project completely off the map, just like all of my other projects. lol. 

If it turns out well I might show the end result. MAYBE.