Well it seems that my niece's sewing machine decided to die. She still had presents to finish for Saturday. I told my daughter to let me know if she wanted to borrow my singer(back up machine). I didn't hear another word about it.
Yesterday my daughter calls and asks what I'm doing and I tell her that I'm sitting on the couch with hubby and Kira. We are trying to spend as much time with her as we can. She wants to know if I can help my niece sew some dresses together. I'm game. What does she need done? My niece calls and she is in tears. She can't figure out a pattern to turn a mans dress shirt into a dress. She is trying to follow a written pattern with measurements for a smaller child and enlarge it to fit her girls and her nieces using her father's shirts. I tell her to bring them to me and I will figure it out. It is now 4pm on Friday. She stops and shows me what she is trying to accomplish. It shouldn't take long I tell her not knowing that she needed a total of 3 dresses. She is still in tears as it has taken her over 8 hours to make one and she still isn't done. I check the web site and draw up a pattern from the instructions. I send her home to finish the one she has been working on.
I cut out the first one and get it sewn. I have my granddaughter try it on as she is the same size as I'm making. I make some changes to the pattern and call my niece. My daughter sends her some pictures. She is happy with it and asks me to make 2 more. Not a problem. I get busy and cut the first one out, sit and sew it up. I go to do the next one and discover the back of the shirt that she wanted me to use is missing. Now what do I do? I call her and she says to use the other shirt and let her know how I make out. This shirt is rayon and I haven't sewn with it in years. I give it a go anyways. I cut it all out and put it away until this morning. It sewed up like a dream. I did make sure that I put a ball point needle in to make my life easier. Here are the finished dresses. I really think that they are night shirts and not dresses.