A New Jumper

I have recently lost a little weight and almost none of my clothes fit me.  However, I was steeply embroiled in getting ready for the craft fair and didn't have time to make some new clothes for myself.  The craft fair ended at 2pm on a Saturday.  By 7pm that night, I had made this new jumper to wear to church the next day. 

I saw the fabric for $3.00 a yard and thought it would be the perfect wintry jumper.  However, the fabric was in two different pieces: one 2 yard piece and one 3/4 yard piece.  When I laid it all out I could see it wasn't going to work out.  I nearly swept everything off the table in frustration.  I just had to make that jumper (obsession anyone?)!  There was enough fabric for the front but the back had to be at least seven inches longer.  That's a pretty long amount! 

I did figure something out and if you look very closely you can see where I added the length.  But if you look at it from far away, you would never know there are extra seams there.   

Here is the finished product complete with a yellow flower in the hair.  Nobody said anything about it so I can only assume that everybody at church loved it.