Some cook, I sew and write: creativity brings joy

Last week I finished my most ambitious project yet.  A dress.  The pattern displayed a sundress with lightly gathered straps that I pictured as a different color and print with a coordinating shirt underneath.  Or even white with a bright pink or tie-dye shirt.  I don't do black or white underneath unless those colors are integral to the dress nor am I enamored with putting shrugs  over the top.  They often ruin the look and are too hot for summer anyway. Here's the pattern: When my daughter saw it, however, she wanted to wear to make a white dress to perform her soliloquy that she wrote for a character from  Way of Kings  in her English class because that's the way she pictured her character.  However, she wanted sleeves rather than a strap with shirt. How hard could it be to modify the pattern?  My mother did things like that for me all the time when I was growing up.  Umm, yeah.  Perish the thought. At first I t...