The Dress

Ms. O is always seeking to sew something.
We don't have the ideal set-up, but a make-shift shuffle of table and chair is enough.
She traced a long sleeved shirt and added a free hand skirt, after refusing to follow a pattern.

First, she decided to hand sew, so she could "feel how they made dresses in the olden days."

Afterwards, she went over her work with the machine.

I only got in two words. Three to be exact.

Make it bigger.

Once it was complete, she noticed it was tricky to get into it without help from zipper or buttons, but she worked away for hours, from start to finish and loved the process.