I should dust off this journal, eh?

Last weekend I finally received printer ink. I'm not sure what's going on with them, but whenever I order bunny pellets they never arrive (lol?) and my original order of printer ink sat for over 10 days without shipping so I canceled it. Thankfully when I re-ordered it last Friday, it shipped, and I received it Sunday evening (but too late to use it that weekend).

Anyway, I purchased it for printing sewing patterns. I wanted to try hand-sewing something and usually, basic a-line dresses, nightgones, leggings, and slacks (not jeans) are good places to start.

That and it's hard to go seriously wrong with a doll nightgown, so I picked Clara by PemberleyThreads.

( Progress pictures under here. )

All in all, I'm very satisfied. The pattern is wonderful to work with, easy for a beginner to utilize. I'm definitely not 'Intermediate' with sewing (and some of the other Intermediate patterns out there give me Fear lol), but this one's friendly. The wrist sleeves were the most challenging aspect, and even then - only because I was hand-sewing. They would've been a breeze with a functional sewing machine.

If I remake this pattern, and I intend to, I'll do the wrists differently (thicker cloth elastic for the gather, the kind I have is too weak), and itty, bitty, miniscule stitches. Anything larger than miniscule doesn't allow the wrist to gather correctly. I'll also probably use a cute flannel because satin is satan misspelled. I definitely had to babysit the satin throughout the process.

Special thanks to Kalli for helping me pin and cut and donating the adorable lace embellishments.