Hm, weird, then one would expect it to just work... Good luck with the hotter water, maybe that'll help :)
Yeah, sewing clothes directly onto the body isn't really an option in real life :D
Maybe you could make a somewhat more loose dress and then tie a ribbon or something around her waist as a belt?
I could imagine some cute styles like that.
Oh, that sounds great! So much progress :) What do you still need to do on it? I'm sure it's not ugly, even if it has the imperfections of being a learner's piece.
That does sound annoying! Hm, the visit's over now, should I start? It's kinda late already, but I wanna :D Maybe I can just try one very simple flower tonight...
Edit: Ok, I did try :D
Here's what I managed:
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Obviously not perfect, but I think it looks okay as a start :)
I did have a really hard time getting the needle with the ribbon through the fabric at all though, so I'm wondering - is my ribbon weird, is my needle just too big (I used a kinda normal sewing needle I had lying around because the eye just fit my widest ribbon), is my fabric strange?
Do you have any tips on how to best stretch the fabric over the hoop? It seemed kinda loose the way I did it and that wasn't really helping my problems either.