With Fear and Trepidation

I am trying to sew from a pattern again.

I HATE patterns.

Mostly because I'm afraid of them.

I've written before about how trying to follow a pattern for me is like trying to read a book written in a language that I don't speak.

And when I've taken on this endeavor before, it ended up somewhat disastrously,

with me ripping up the pattern and starting over from scratch, making it up myself as I went along. Thankfully, that was just a bag.

But I found a project that I just have to try,

that I can't just make up on my own...

so I'm going for it.

Because it's a gift, I'll have to keep you all in the dark for now and just share cryptic close up pictures,

but rest assured that I will tell you all about it once this person has received her (or his... no let's be honest: her) gift.

Wish me luck!

And if you have any sage words of wisdom related to pattern-following

(or you just want to leave a little encouragement for a freaked out but ambitious sewist),

please leave me some love. :)

And don't forget to enter my Kickoff to Summer Giveaway

by this Friday at midnight (EST).