Dressing in Moonlight

I've always loved the moon, much of my jewelry has moons and stars on it, and since i spent most of the other sleepless night kept company by these dear celestial bodies  I thought it would be fitting to make my moon dress.

I wanted to make it a simple but elegant dress since I rarely work with jersey fabric, and still feel the pains of being terrifically terrible at sewing clothes.  

Though, despite my simple design for the dress- I still ran into some snags.  Primarily that when I was sewing lines for this, the fabric would still stretch but the stitches would not.  Meaning stitches would break and I would make lamentations and groans that almost certainly startled any person within the general area.

I discovered the trick though!  When sewing jersey, pull it so that about 50-75% of the stretch is being used, and sew it that way.  It makes it so that the stitches don't bump and rumple too much, but the stitches are far more flexible and won't make your neighbours call the police on you for all of the swearing.

Once that was discovered, the rest of the dress was quite simple!  

It fits well and after my growling and cursing, I remember why jersey is used in so many clothing items.  

More sewing projects will be coming soon since I just got a box of fabric, so stay sweet, stay crafty, and stay tuned for more adventures, and even more likely misadventures.