Two weeks from now, on March 20, my friends at LoadingReadyRun are holding their 7th anniversary screening at the Victoria Event Centre. It just so happens that on that same day, I will be celebrating my birthday. In anticipation of these two simultaneous events, I present you with a new t-shirt modification method, altering a LoadingReadyRun shirt for maximum fitted girliness. This post is brought to you by my mother, to whom I owe both my birth and my craftsy nature. Having survived her enthusiastic efforts to teach me all she knows has made me who I am today. It also almost made me hurl the sewing machine at a wall a few times in my teenage years (like you do), but those moments passed.

Take it away, Mom.

[From here on, Tally’s mom is in command of the blog post. Mostly.]

Getting to do a guest blog for my dear daughter sounded like fun. Turns out I had a few things to learn. The first was that writing down and photographing every darned step of a project is a lot of extra work, and that’s before I even started to edit things down to a size that you readers could possibly tolerate. This brings me to the second thing that I learned, which is that I am way too obsessed with details. You don’t want to know how much of what I originally recorded got chopped from this write-up. It occurred to me that maybe, just maybe, the reason Tally didn’t take up sewing until she lived a good, long distance from Mom was that I would drive her nuts with my, “Oh, but you could do it this way, because…” and “Oooh, here’s another possibility.” Dear Daughter, you have my admiration for your patience, both in dealing with your mom, and in putting together this blog every week.

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