Hey readcashers. How are you all doing. Yesterday i eas supposed to a post an article, but i woke up this morning to realize that I had not posted it. Since I've got no new topic to write about, I just have to make do with my yesterday's article.

Yesterday's article:

Today was another DIY day for me. I would say it was a productive way to begin the week. I woke up as early as 5am to attend today's church service. I love to attend the early morning service (6am-8am). I joined the bulletin group not too long ago and what we do is share pamphlets containing the Sunday readings. It is a fun thing to do and it is omotivatesne out of the many things that motivate me to attend church services regularly. I love to see people's smiling faces as they collect the pamphlets from me and sometimes utter a word of thank you to me.

That's by the way. I came back from church around 8:30am and decided to sew some ankara cloth given to me by my mum. It was a free gift from her for my birthday. In case you don't know, Ankara is a name for colorful wax fabric prints made in Africa. It is usually measured in yards and six yards of it makes a piece. I was gifted a piece.

I planned to hand the materials over to a tailor, but the amount he asked me to pay was too much. I knew how to make clothes, I just didn't want to make any mistakes that would spoil my cloth because I'm a newbie in the sewing world. But since taking the cloth to a tailor would cost me a lot, I decided to make the dress myself.

The spirit of cutting and sewing the cloth came to me this morning after church service. So I gathered the little seeing materials I had; a pair of scissors, a chalk, a measuring tape and most importantly my ankara material. I had no ruler for drawing lines neither do I have a pattern papper, but I didn't mind.

I started by first taking my measurements. It is said that one cannot take his cloth measurements himself but that saying holds no candle to my style of doing things. I took the measurements myself and don't think too much, they turned out accurate. Besides, even without checking, I can say my body measurements accurately.

I folded the ankara material in four and began to trace out the body measurements I had earlier taken. I know I wasn't supposed to measure directly on my fabric but I still took the risk.

I was supposed to have a pattern paper but I still didn't mind. That is a bad sewing habit though. After tracing, I cut it out with my scissors and took it to the sewing machine where I joined the necessary parts. I made sure to have my pressing iron ready to straighten some needed parts. The cloth materials needed straightening so I wouldn't end up with a rough work.

I was a bit unlucky as electricity got disconnected in between my ironings. I had to do without it as I was in a haste to finish sewing. You see, I needed to complete all my sewing projects before going back to school as ASUU has called off their eight month old academic strike.

I was not able to finish joining the fabric because there was no light. The ones i joined gave a lot of hard time, especially the zipper part. It was hard trying to make neat stitches for the zip but I'm proud to say that I did it😊

Hopefully I will be finishing the work tomorrow, but that would be after I'm back from work I can't wait to see what I have created.

By the way,I just realized that I haven't cut out the hand of my fabric😩. They would probably be holding my funeral if this were a customer's cloth. I really do hope my cloth comes out nice, but I'll still be ok with whatever outcome knowing that I'm not a professional

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Thanks for coming by today😍