Question on garb making

[Auryn]

Lots of really good advice here.
My $0.02- which with the economy as it is is worth even less.

Don't sew when you are very tired.
Trust me, its the easiest way to cut yourself with a cutting wheel, stick yourself with a needle, or totally screw up a pattern piece- this last one is even more true when you barely have enough fabric for the project you are working on or its really expensive fabric.

[Rowan MacD]

 Amen to that.  Blood on the fabric doesn't always blend in.
When you find yourself making the same mistake over and over, and you can't figure out what you're doing wrong, it's time to quit.
   When you come back to the project later, it will probably be obvious what the problem was, but you were too tired to see it. 

[isabelladangelo]

Or put the wrong sleeve on the wrong armscye three times in a row only to have to take it out...again!  At 3 o'clock in the morning

[gem]

Or put the wrong sleeve on the wrong armscye three times in a row only to have to take it out...again!  At 3 o'clock in the morning

I was SO proud of myself, the first time I made it through an entire project without putting something together backward first. 

It didn't happen again for another couple of years! Ha!!

[Hoowil]

I remember doing french seams on a chemise, only to realize that compared to the body, the armswere inside out. After doing the second seam....

[gem]

I remember doing french seams on a chemise, only to realize that compared to the body, the armswere inside out. After doing the second seam....

Oh, lordy. I'd blocked that one out. LOL I have a linen chemise I sewed entirely by hand, using French seams. I sewed the gores on backwards/inside out, TWICE! And those tiny hand stitches are a BEAR to pick out.

But the UPSIDE is, you really do learn a lot from these... experiences.  By the end of that chemise, my hand stitches were GORGEOUS.