It is evident that sewing is a part of my God-given destiny.

Last Thursday. Sewing night.

Oh, did you email me with interest? And I TOTALLY dropped the ball on organizing this event all-together?

Yup, sounds about right.

Okay, here's the thing. When I picked the date, it sounded good. It sounded open. And then I volunteered to make that baby quilt (which was due the next day), and I started to have seizures because I could see myself staying up until all hours of the night finishing errant sewing projects.

So, I pretty much figured everyone would just FORGET about the sewing night.

But apparently, some of you have calendars. And you tend to remember these types of things.

Other side note: I found out about a week beforehand, that Mike was going to be out at a golf/bible study thingy that night. Without him to help sequester the children and their tornado-making abilities upstairs and behind closed doors, sewing night was officially DEAD.

Until. One friend emailed and said she wanted to bring a neighbor. I was still going to cancel (due to childcare issues), but as I SUCK at all forms of communication, I never got around to that.

Then. Another friend called and said her doctor-husband would be home that night and she wanted to sew! Well, I'll be damned if that wasn't a sign from God.

Thou shalt sew.

But this was all decided on Wednesday.

On Thursday, one more friend emailed to see if it was still on. And amazingly, it was, due in-no-part to my abilities to actually organize and follow through on the event I originally suggested.



So, six of us ended up here by divine intervention to sew pillowcase dresses. Again, let me say that if you emailed me and wanted to come but were waiting for me to give you DETAILS...I am oh-so-sorry. I would have loved for you all to be here! I was not cherry-picking my sewing friends. Instead, I was being a lazy slug with a hatred of deadlines who just dropped the ball.

One dress was officially completed that night! Nice! Another gal was 95% finished (no photo). And because we used a different technique with my friend Amy, I held on to one dress to experiment and finish it up. Two other gals were using this same idea to make an adult top...there were a few snags with translating this pattern to adult sizes, but I have it on good authority that one of them actually finished it (and it looks fab).

Here is Big J, *tolerating* my request to hold Amy's dress for a photo:

How cute are those patterns together????? As I did have to give this back to Amy, I am thinking that I am going to be a total copy-cat and buy all of the same fabrics she used. Also, with hers, we didn't line it (but made sure to go over all exposed seams with a finishing stitch) and then made bias tape to finish the arm holes. The contrasting fabric around the arm holes makes it extra sassy, I think.

So, impromptu sewing night was a success (despite my lazy, non-communicative efforts). If anyone wants to do it again, email me or leave me a comment. For those of you that I *missed* this time around, I will be emailing you this week to pick a new date. Any date. I'll probably even sew you 10 dresses myself because I feel TERRIBLE about the whole debacle.

On the plus side, I have a new technique that takes less time and fabric! Thanks to all the gals who came on over and served as guinea pigs...I had so much fun!!