Sewing my dress for my son's wedding

Now that the sewing camps are over; I give private lessons to an 11yrs old girl. She is a natural. In nine hours she's made a couple of pillowcases, and two dresses. The dresses are two separate views from the same pattern. She has learned how to make an elastic casing and how to sew in a zipper.

I've been making the dress for my son's wedding. I want to be a stylish mother of the groom. I'm making Simplicity 4070. This picture is dress in progress. I'll post pictures of the finished dress when I return from the wedding,

Summer Sewing Camps a BIG hit

The three summer camps were very successful. Each camp lasted for five days. The students ages range from 7-11yrs and 12-15yrs. The younger group made a pillowcase and pajama bottoms. The teen group made a peasant blouse. They learned how to operate their own sewing machines. They also learned how to measure, layout, pin and cut out a pattern. It was lots of fun.

I think the biggest challenge for most of the girls was the sewing machine. They start out thinking that they can learn it all in one day. I had to show them that even after 40 years of sewing; some days the machine still doesn't do what I want it to do.