First trying to attach the button foot. Once I'd finished fiddling with that and after watching a few YouTube videos where the 1 step button hole makes do just that: make a button hole in one go, I thought it'd be a doddle. First I kept getting half a button hole with the machine stopping at the top. Turns out there was a silly little lever that I had not quite worked right.. Once I had worked out my mistake I made a few successful button holes on scrap fabric, so moved on to the dress, only to find my thread kept getting jammed after half a button and then snap. Then finally this happened.
AAAARRRGHHH! A broken needle. That does explain all the trouble I had been having and I will now know for the next time when my needle is on its way out! Once it was replace the button hole did turn out to be a doddle and in no time I had this:
A perfectly formed cute little button hole. In the end it really was a doddle, but all the kerfuffle with the blunt needle wasted me a lot of time. Also ignore the wonky top stitching on the strap. I still need to work on doing sharp bends! It's a bit harder than I thought, but it's not really visible when you see the dress as a whole.
Once the button holes were done, I just had to add 4 buttons (2 each side) and then, finally after nearly 3 hours of fiddling I could finally go: TADAAAAAH!
A finished reversible baby dress.
And of course I cannot leave out the dress being modeled by the cute little baby who it was intended for.
I am really really pleased with the little dress. It is not perfect, but certainly a brilliant job for someone who until about 3 weeks ago had never touched a sewing machine.
Time to watch the Great British Sewing Bee now, unless Mr B wins and gets to watch football!
Thank you for reading and until next time.
B :)
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