My mom loves to lounge in her bathrobe and drink
her coffee in the morning before everyone wakes up.
Her old bathrobes were a little worn out, so I
got a pattern from Burda and got talked into buying a royal blue Nicki fabric
by the sales person too. “The
sun will very well rise in the morning”,
her argument was. Oh well!
The bathrobe should be with a collar, without a
hood and should reach down to around the knees, because that’s the length my mom is most comfortable
with.
On one Sunday in Advent Vladimir grabbed Irma
and they spent the whole day together. So I could easily concentrate on sewing
the bathrobe.
Everything was just fine until I got to the
collar. I swear, I spent a couple of hours cursing, trying to attach the collar
reasonably to the robe. The instructions, that came with the pattern definitely
didn’t help.
Despite of reading it a thousand times and trying
to think logically, I didn’t
understand the sewing language. It was horrible! So much time wasted, because I couldn’t
comprehend! And yet it on the pattern it said EASY!
But as I mentioned earlier, I am still a sewing
newbie and that became very obvious.
At some point I had a light bulb moment and I
managed to attach - without the instructions - the collar. It could be, that by
chance I sewed it on correctly, the bathrobe looks quite acceptable and with
all the cursing it still comes from the heart, dear mom.
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