Homemaking Fail

I experienced a rather dramatic homemaking fail today....it was very sad for me.

I am a beginning seamstress. I have always enjoyed it and tackled a number of projects and had fairly good success. Not today though, not today.

I recently had the brilliant idea to make myself a maxi skirt. I am too tall for the ones in the stores and I figured it would be easy enough to make one. I found a simple tutorial on pinterest, and purchased so super cute fabric from JoAnn's. The fabric was purple and black with sparkles and a little bit of zebra print. I loved it. It was perfect.

I followed the instructions exactly, measured myself correctly (I think), and wrote everything down. I sewed the proper sides together and bustled happily on my way. The skirt was taking shape! I got it all done in less than an hour.

I decided to try on the skirt before I hemmed it so I could make sure to get the length right. Here is where things went wrong...

The blasted skirt didn't fit! I couldn't get it up much past my knees! I had had a dreaded suspicion that it might be small as I was inspecting it, but I never thought it would be THAT small. Good grief.

I am positive I messed up somehow. Maybe I measured wrong. Maybe I cut it the wrong way. Maybe the stretch was supposed to go the other way. I dunno....I may never know.

I will not let this be my last sewing effort, but I am slightly discouraged. However, I choose to see this on the funny side. All that effort for such horrible outcomes. It is a little funny and I am sure a fly on the wall would have had a good laugh.

Maybe I will make the horrible skirt into a skirt for Ella. Maybe I will keep it as a reminder that sometimes, fails happen. Maybe I will someday be skinny enough to fit into it, but I doubt that. Today though, I just sigh a little and giggle to myself.

I don't even want to take a picture to remember it by...