Tutorial: FAIL

Lots of crafts don't work out. For everyone. As we are learning our craft (or Craft) and improving our crafts(wo)manship, we make mistakes, bungle projects, and fail epically. This just makes us better, right? As long as we learn from those mistakes and move on, we'll be better crafters for it. Have you noticed, that you rarely see bloggers admitting that they have failed projects? We are led to believe that the bloggers we love (love love love) live in some alternate universe of perfection and awesomeness. Ya right! They've had flops too, and this usually means they won't post that day or will add some filler post about something boring.

My most recent fail was for today's tutorial post, oops! I had followed Casey's 50's dress tutorial link to making a bodice block for myself (my dream to make summer dresses out of the forever accumulating fabric almost realized), started the project and failed. Then I tried again, and failed again. Into the recycler went my attempted patterns, after I puzzled over it for an hour and decided...

that I learnt two things:

1) choose one system of measurement (Metric OR Imperial) and,

2) get someone else to help with measurements.

Bah! Ah well. I'll try again, and it'll be wonderful. Then I'll post my success!

Do you have a recent 'Fail' project? It's ok, don't be shy!

During my quest to find out what went wrong I also found a bunch more bodice block styles on burda style, next: the sweetheart bodice.