project start: 8/3
project end: 10/12
total time: two months and nine days

...yes. yes i did try the spin. it spins *so good*

I wish i had asked for a spin when i gave it to her, but I forgot. Oh well, life happens!

Overall: 10/10 project, I felt like I knew what I was doing 85% of the time, I would not do it again. But if I did, I know how I would go about it.

It was finished. Now all that was left was to clean up my work. I had to hide SOOOO many thread ends. I hope I got them all! Meanwhile my mil had helped me figure out why the skirt was sitting wrong and we got it fixed in one night. We da bomb c:

I attached the belt and added some decorative stitching to the front. I also added a red ribbon to the bottom, to match the inside color of the belt.

I got kinda discouraged because even though the skirt looked like a skirt, it was hanging weirdly low in the front. So I took a break and made the belt. And then tried to decide how I wanted the belt to be. I made a few different designs

I decided that the top tier of the skirt couldn't just be normal and needed to be *special*. So I experimented a little and it seemed to turn out ok (spoilers: it didn't hang right and my mil and I had to undo the seam and redo it better)

Disaster struck! I lost a crucial part of my sewing machine. But my mil came to the rescue again. She lent me her old machine. And she convinced me to stop hurting my wrist.

My mil gave me a leftover drop cloth to protect the skirt from grass and pet hair and that seemed to work great. Because each tier of the skirt was smaller, the more pleats I sewed, the more manageable it got. Eventually I could work on it inside again.

I also decided how to lock the hems.

I spent a really long time de-grassifying it. The best method turned out to be just picking the grass off one by one because the wrong side of the fabric, the black side, got fuzzy and rolled pills if I used a lint roller on it. I also tried to pick off the cat hair...

I started working on it outside, laying it across two picnic tables. I had a few unrelated panic attacks that this thing saw me through. One time I worked on it outside for six hours straight. The one downfall of working outside: grass got stuck to it. A Lot. of grass.

I don't remember when I cut the fabric and made plans, but I remember I took that first picture on August 3rd. I hand-sewed 12 panels together into four strips. By then it was too long to fit in my apartment unrolled, especially the strip that was 6 panels long.

Progress pics of it

I've cracked it guys actually on episode 8 the humans went to the nether and got netherite and that's how they defeated the vampires, with lava and netherite surely
Trust me bro

N, nether? ?? ?????

Two by two
hands of blue
two by two
hands of blue