The Miracle Dress

Remember how when you would go shopping with Mama, she would always say, “Don’t buy that. You could make that.” Maybe she didn’t tell everyone that, but she always said that to me. In fact, she had me buy my first sewing machine when I was eight (from Martha) and I was pretty convinced, even then, that I could make anything.

Well, Savannah had another dance performance today. They were doing a Puerto Rican Formal Dance and she wanted a “prom dress” to wear. Since I didn’t want to spend much money on that type of thing, and I was sure I could make it, I decided to go to D.I. and buy an old dress and cut it down to her size. Of course the only dress available in the color requested by her teacher was a sleeveless, women’s size 14.

It was a disaster from the start. Somehow, I measured wrong and cut off way too much in the very beginning. A friend of Savannah’s was over and she said, “I’m pretty sure it would take a miracle to fix that.” My thoughts exactly.

I only wanted to spend a couple of hours on this project, so I just kept cutting, and trying it on her, pinning it up and cutting again. I finally got it to a point that I thought was “wearable” although I was extremely disappointed with the results. I decided my last hope was to spray it with water, hoping some of the seams would lay a little flatter. And what do you know… we woke up this morning and put it on and it was a miracle!

Don't you love the pose. She was pretty impatient because she didn't want to be late (I think she is turning into a teenager already)! But the dress actually looked pretty good. The performance was so great. She really felt like a star. Wish I could post the video. I just don’t know how to do that yet.