The Dress of Drama

Let me start out by saying that my wife is a saint. She is always doing nice things for people, and at times to her own detriment. At Kaitlyn's school they have a gift tree for needy people in the community. Of course Angela grabbed a fist full of stuff to get and one of the items was a dress for a little girl. Now I being a bit selfish would have just run down to the store and grabbed a dress and called it good but Angela wanted to do something a bit more special. She decided that she wanted to make a home made dress for the little girl. Very novel, like I said she is a saint. Spending no less than 30 hours on this dress, she was finishing up when it happened. Her automatic button hole maker was broken so she was going to do it by hand. She used a knife to cut the hole and had a slip of the hand. The cut ended up being about 2 inches long and according to Angela had ruined her dress. This is where I come into the story, I was out when this happened. I got a call on my cell phone and Angela was sobbing uncontrollably. This doesn't happen very often, OK never. I thought, "Oh great, an axe murder killed all of my family and Angela is cut in half barely able to make a phone call." Once she calmed down she recounted the story of the button hole, stating that she had ruined the dress and that she was a failure as a human being. It makes me wonder if Mother Teresa ever had days like this. I got home after the call expecting to see a dress that had gone through a paper shredder. I was pleasantly surprised to see only minor damage. As you can see by the picture below she was able to stitch it up and you can't even tell something went wrong. I hope that the little girl that gets the dress loves the dress as much as Angela does. There are a few more pictures here. Kali did a wonderful job modeling. ~Erik
Strobist Info-Shoot through umbrella camera right, a few shots with grid camera left behind subject.