tangled lines to a mama dress

Do you ever use craft magazines to make from?

So far - for many years - I have been an enthusiastic collector of vintage and more recent crafting and sewing mags, as well as a procrastinating, daydreaming, post-it-note sticking bookmarker of their fanciable projects.

I picked up a copy of a mid-1990's sewing magazine from a junk shop a few months back, just when I got pregnant: it had both cloth nappy- and a mama dress pattern.

Then recently I opened the pattern pages and saw a complete tangle in front of me. I'm not a stranger to pattern cutting, making up my own patterns doesn't phase me either, but this crazy mess of lines looks like quite a challenge.

Especially that my pattern pieces, all thirteen of them, are printed in light blue lines... I wished so hard that they were in black ink or at least in red, but no. I got light blue, which is the most tricky to see through the spot and cross pattern paper I use to transfer and draft my sewing patterns onto.

But I'm determined! With some time, a good graphite pencil and a highlighter I will tackle the tangled lines and make that dress. I hope...