Sew scared

I am in the process of making a dress. When I say in the process I mean I bought all the things I need. I even talked to the ladies at the fabric shop. I H.A.T.E doing that! I hate it because I have no clue what I am doing. I feel like a fool because I never know how much fabric I need, am I using the "right" kind of fabric for what I am making? It's when I have a million simple questions I FREAK OUT! Ahhh! I'm even freaking out now just thinking about it.

If you are wondering... is she really that insecure about sewing... why yes I am. If I sew some more I might change my blog to insecure seamstress actually I have a problem with that because I am so insecure that I wouldn't ever call myself a seamstress. Insecure stitcher. You get the pun? Instead of secure stitch... Ok I had to explain it so now it's lame...

Anyway...

I am making this dress. I wanted to find a fabric that doesn't need much ironing so I picked up this wool fabric. What was I thinking? It's the end of the world! Do you feel the drama? It's one of those movies with Will Smith and it's the end of life as we know it and there is no hope. Haha. At least one person is laughing... slash crying and it's me.



I am freaking out because I have all this stuff and now I say to myself...

"You need to do this right! Preshrink the fabric!"

"But it's wool!"

"You just read all the ways to do it online, pick a way and do it!"

"But what if it shrinks too much the "easy" way... I'm too lazy to London shrink wrap it... And if I do the kids will walk all over it while it dries... And if I hang it, then it will get misshaped..."

Stay tuned... While Ashley gets the OK from her mom on how to preshrink it, even though her mom's first e-mail scared her to not preshrink it at all.

Here are two links for preshrinking wool fabric...

This one tells you all the ways and I have search the web and these are all I have found.


This is the wet towel and dryer method. Sounds scary but the easiest...


The comments on this post will scare you into preshrinking wool and kind of convince you the dryer method is ok by the amount of people who have tried it...