I was good

I cut out the bridesmaid dress last night, even though I totally wanted to continue procrastinating on it. And I started sewing today. So far, I have all the darts sewn into the bodice (one in each back piece and four altogether in the front lining). I started gathering the front overlay. After I had all the gathering threads in and pulled it up to the same length as the CF lining, I sewed the two gathered layers together then removed the now-unnecessary gathering threads. When I went to pin it to the CF lining, it was some how 2 inches too big! Silly bodice. So I had to rip out all the threads and put in new gathering threads. Whew! I'm taking a break now. I think this may actually not take that long to put together. Famous last words, right?