It's a dress-aster!!

I was so close to finishing 'summer', just a zip and a hem away from perfection. Of course I could not simply use an invisible zip and be done with it, no I had to 'edge' it up and attempt an exposed zip similar to this:

Exposed Zip

This dress has been measured, fitted and checked every step of the way, and yet after perfectly positioning and sewing in my fabulous zip, it looks like a shapeless bulging bag. Arrrrgggghhhhh!!!!! I am so frustrated that she has been thrown into the corner of the room - I just can't bear to fix her yet!!

The other consequense of this is that I had no new dress for our photo shoot on Sunday :(. We went for our drive anyway, and took photos of the countryside instead - oh well, the weekend was not totally lost! I found some gems in a second hand book store.

got lost in a bookstore