Success!!!

I did it!! I took on Simplicity 2414 and won!! Mwahahaha! I feel so accomplished, even though my mom basically walked me through it (and bought it for me...and bought me the material), I still conquered a pattern.  Woot! Now I feel ready to take on another one AND I have a new, ruffly blue skirt!

The pattern said "1 hour" but it def took me almost all day yesterday. Sad!I screwed up a lot and my seam ripper and I became very close. 

And you see that? That's a button hole!!! It took 12 tries but I made a button hole! I'm a really visual learner and the directions were all written out. I was so confused! But everything turned out nicely. I wore it out and no one gave me a look that said "What in the world are you wearing?" :)

And now the reveal of my "secret" project! A secret project that was NOT my own idea, but the idea of Trey and Lucy. Button earrings! I LOVE them!! They are SO easy to make (I made three pairs in one minute!) and so versatile! I wanted mine to look like these earrings from Anthropologie. Mine cost about 5 cents to  make, as apposed to $18 from Anthro? That's like getting them 99.998% off! Score!

I love them! You can find buttons to go with any outfit and customize you look for practically free. Go on a try it! I'll be trying out some more patterns. :)

Patterns

As  I have mentioned in an older post, I have a pattern phobia. I don't know, they're just really scary! There are so many elements of them that I don't understand, so much room for error from misreading, they're expensive,  plus they use SO MUCH FABRIC. Seriously? I need almost three yards of fabric to make a grocery bag? My goodness gracious. My gracious mother sent me so many awesome patterns for my birthday last month (and even fabric to go with them!) but I've only used two of them so far, and both of them were things  I already knew how to make without patterns. It was good practice, and both of them turned out nicely! Yet, I'm still scared. Here's what I've made:

Ok...so I didn't use the pattern for the pockets on the apron. It's obvious. It looks really weird. But, he likes his apron! And he looks mighty cute in it, I must add.

I also made me some pajama pants. I don't know why the legs look like different lengths in the picture...but I assure you they are even! This was my first pattern attempt, and I didn't get the part where if the intended wearer is petite, you  need to fold to shorten the pattern. Notice on my 5'3'' frame the waistband is up to my waist. :D Oops!

I guess I need to get over it, because I'm planning on making the hubs a nice robe for his birthday next month that I already bought 5 yards of fabric for! Oops...I guess I shouldn't have posted it on the blog. Oh wait, he doesn't read it so I'm good! What about you? Anyone else have pattern phobias or am I the only one?