What the Craft?!

Every few years I get the inexplainable urge to craft. I’ve never been a crafty individual, but as time passes I either forget that I have no crafting abilities or I think I mystically developed the skills it takes to craft out of zero practice and no determination. As a child, I assumed once you hit a certain age as a female you would magically develop sewing & cooking competence...turns out that age is not 23. 

My most recent crafting endeavor was a maxi-dress. I began with high hopes and thoughts of ease, assuming I could bust out such a product in a matter of hours on a lazy Sunday. I found on Pinterest (or the Devil’s playground) a “simple” maxi-dress tutorial. Except here’s the thing about expert crafters who create tutorials: they assume everyone knows the language of their people. They throw around terms like “gathering stitch” and “elastic thread”. Wtf is elastic thread? I thought thread was a thing and elastic was a thing, no combination about it. My first mistake was buying all the materials before actually reading the tutorial all the way through. I saw a pretty picture and claims of easily turning a tank top, some elastic, and a yard of material into my dream dress. After buying elastic and fabric, my second mistake was turning an old tank-top into a crop-top, still without reading all the directions. 

After cutting my elastic, the fabric, and the tank-top, I decided to give those directions a thorough read through. Once I hit the point in the directions where I was required to click an external link leading to yet another expert crafter’s tutorial I began to lose faith in the alleged ease of the project. With increasing groans of frustration leaking out of my mouth, my craft-savvy roommates jumped in to help me sort out the situation. As they brainstormed ideas of salvaging my pre-cut pieces, I dreamed up this blog post. I found it less stressful to stick to honing the talents I’m comfortable with rather than pricking myself with a needle in attempts to force a talent I have no knack for. 

Plus, I’m clearly ravishing in the final product:

Nailed it!