Maternity Temple Dress

This week, my major goal was to get the pattern made for my maternity temple dress. I had this brilliant idea (back when I was pregnant, over a year ago) to make a maternity temple dress. But as I sat on the floor, looking at my pattern pieces the other day, I thought, do I really want to make a temple dress? Why? And as I thought about it, all of my reasons didn't hold much water. 1) I wanted one because I didn't want a dress that 1/5 of every other woman in the temple was wearing. As I have thought about it, that's not the point of wearing a temple dress at all, the point is to wear something that covers your body and doesn't bring attention to yourself. 2) I wanted a maternity dress to wear that didn't look like a bag. Well, in Indiana, I'll only be going to the temple once a month, so I'll only really use it maybe 3 or 4 times, if that. Plus, I don't really have access to friends like I did in Provo to help me make sure the fit is good, and that I don't make it too big, or too small. The dress I have now really would work with a pregnant belly, so I think I'll just stick with it.

I'm also finding out that I may not love sewing as much as I thought I did. Well, sewing intricate projects, like clothing. I still plan on making a few things. I still plan on making curtains for my new apartment, and making a diaper bag, since cute and affordable ones don't exist (or they are ridiculously hard to find) among other things.

I bought the fabric already, which really made me wonder if I should just do it anyway, but I can just save it for blessing clothing for my future kids.