Square Knots are Top Knotch; Project of the Week: Butterick 5929

Today I had the distinct pleasure of attending the Texas EMIG Colloquium hosted by Baylor College of Medicine (across the street from my school). The day's events included a couple of lectures, skills sessions, a resident panel, and sim sessions. I finally learned how to suture! And intubate! The sim sessions covered how to respond to the call for a doctor on an airplane, working up a patient with an acute myocardial infarction (heart attack), working up a patient with a neck trauma, and working up a patient in diabetic ketoacidosis.

Unfortunately, I didn't get any pics because I was so busy having fun... and realizing how much I have left to learn! All in all, an exciting venture that has definitely lit a fire under my butt... summer is definitely over and MS2 has begun.

I've got a long way to go until I'm a real doctor, but the prospect is so exciting.


Project of the Week: Butterick 5929

After trying my hand at a form-fitting skirt with Butterick 5466, I decided I wanted a fuller skirt that was a little more congruent with my personal style - hence Butterick 5929, view B!

This skirt was an easy-peasy project, despite my revisions and mistakes.

Because I've had so many problems with sizing, I wanted to make sure that the skirt fit before I sewed down the box pleats that make up the majority of the difficulty in this pattern. I'm glad I tried the skirt on, because boy did those box pleats look ridiculous on my behind. (Bad pic because I'm all twisty, but suffice it to say, it looked like I had four butts)

Undeterred, I cut out my basting stitches and set to work ignoring the pleats as designed and made my own pleats. The looked much better, IMO.

Unlike the view pictured with the model, my view has no pockets (yesssss) and adds a waistband rather than a facing (double yesssss). Unfortunately, I forgot this when I was sewing, looked at the instructions for view A, and, as a result, sewed my waistband on like a facing. Oops. It didn't look bad, I just really, really wanted a waistband. So I kinda jerry-rigged the skirt and instead of folding the waistband in like a facing, I sewed it over and attempted to sew over my understitching line. The result? A waistband... but a couple extra lines of stitching are visible. Whatever. If anyone gets that close that they can see my extra stitches.... I dunno. But it'd be pretty weird.

The final product:


I'm looking forward to wearing this skirt to my practice physical exam on Tuesday. Should be fun!

Raw Materials Cost	$   18.20
Sewing Time Cost	$   23.86
Total Cost	$   42.06