My First Sewing Project!

When Z and I got married, a sweet family friend gave me a sewing machine as a wedding gift. I was SO excited and could not wait to learn to sew... fast forward two years, and I still had not tried out my machine :/ So the other day, I decided to give it a go. I looked up youtube videos on setting up my machine... I read, re-read, and re-read again my machine guide... and I slowly got to sewing. It took most of a day just to figure out how to thread and install a bobbin {especially because I had no idea what a bobbin was, ha!} and how to thread the needle. Finally, after a few hours, my machine was ready for some sewin' ;) That first day I just worked on sewing straight lines trying to sew straight lines. I felt like I was getting the hang of it, and I was pretty excited to finally be using my sewing machine!!Well yesterday, I decided to try my first sewing project... I had a solid white tea towel and some scrap fabric, so I thought I'd cutesy that towel up! I found a tutorial on how to make a ruffle {which was a lot easier than I thought it would be!} and then got to work. Now, don't judge my stitching, ha! I'm still working on the whole straight stitch thing.... but from a distance I think my tea towel turned out super cute ;) {from a distance being the key words there!} So here it is... my very first sewing project!!

I started to add a close up of the ruffle and then thought better of it... like I said, still working on making straight stitches! The hardest part by far was sewing the ruffle on... maybe I'll find a better tutorial for that part. But overall I feel like this project was a success... and now I'm excited to try a few more soon!