It Started out as a Good Problem to Have

I started to seam rip and fit the dress' collar to me last night.  And as I measured and pinned I discovered something.

The dress is too BIG!!!

I literally was taking in an inch and a half per side (does a little happy dance)!

I don't know how it happened.  If I measured during a time of a lot of water retention or have I slimmed down that much?  Don't know, but I'll gladly take the outcome!

So today I got to work on the sides and then started in on the shoulder seams.  Much to my amusement, now that I have taken in so much around my middle, my shoulder seams and collar don't need to be taken in at all!  Which is great for the dress, but means that the collar needs to be let out.

No biggie.  I can handle that.

However, while I was sewing (try on, re-sew, try on) my brand new zipper broke!

I was stuck in my half completed dress!

Somehow I was able to wiggle it up over my chest and over my head.  But before I figured that out, this daunting thought plagued me; which one of my MALE neighbors (that are home right now) would I have to ask to help me?!?! (Not many women home today)

Not my top priority.  At all. And not on my bucket list, either.

You could just wait til your husband came home, right?

Um, no.  I have Thing 1 and 2 to pick up after their after school activities today.

Now I have to go to the fabric store, not only to get more fabric for Thing 3's dress and shirts, but a new hidden zipper as well.  I wonder if they do exchanges etc on that.  I've never had that happen before, but that doesn't mean that the occasional irregular product doesn't slip through.

It is just so frustrating because I could see the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel for this dress!

...and I am getting really sick of this zipper. I guess the good thing is that that particular zipper is history; out with the old (broken) and in with the new.

Well, by the time this dress is done, I will be the master of hidden zippers!  :)

~Me