The high school prom will be THIS Saturday! I think I’ll be good to finish Renaissance’s dress. I made an atrocious error on it on Saturday, so I’ve spent this morning seam ripping the entire skirt so I could re-attach it correctly. I am normally really good about going through a pattern’s instructions beforehand and highlighting any weird steps so I don’t make mistakes during construction, but I managed to miss reading a very important moment when I was supposed to sew the right side of the skirt to the wrong side of the lining, and ended up sewing right sides together which resulted in the skirt being sewn on inside-out. Joy of joys. I’ve atoned for my mistake and unpicked the two rows of sewing AND the row of hand basting, and then did them all over again. Yep, winning.

Note to self: For future sewing, look for any steps that deviate from the default “right sides together” and highlight the heck out of them.

Another prom-related development happened on Friday: A mom in Ren’s friend group texted the group chat and asked where everyone wanted to eat dinner for prom, we weighed in, and she texted us back saying that a reservation for four had been successfully made. I had been under the impression that the one friend wasn’t going to go to the high school prom, so I turned to Rachel and asked her if she knew who he was going to prom with and she said, “Me.”

My mouth dropped, my shoulders caved, my eyes widened, “What?!?”

Rachel, upon seeing the change in my posture, got a deer-in-the-headlights look on her face, “I forgot to tell you, didn’t I? He asked yesterday and we bought the tickets today.”

I spent the next two hours working on Ren’s dress and mulling over the logistics of finishing that dress AND Rachel’s dress in a week, and ultimately decided to send out an SOS to friends to see if anyone had a dress that Rachel could borrow for the high school prom because I highly doubt I can pull off finishing both dresses in time. A few people responded, for which I am so, so grateful!

A back-up dress has been secured, it is less modest than I normally would consider, but at the end of the day no one will die and the world will continue to turn. Rachel is thrilled because she’s always wanted to wear a dress with this neckline but has had the good sense to not push for something like it, so everyone is relatively happy.

So this week will be all about finishing up Ren’s dress and getting a head start on Rachel’s dress for the church formal. I’ll post if I have time, but don’t surprised if I don’t.