{"id":1093,"date":"2006-11-08T16:38:05","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T20:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2006\/11\/how-to-sew-a-christmas-dress\/"},"modified":"2006-11-08T16:38:05","modified_gmt":"2006-11-08T20:38:05","slug":"how-to-sew-a-christmas-dress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2006\/11\/how-to-sew-a-christmas-dress\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Sew A Christmas Dress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. Find a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burdamode.com\/9680_Dress,1000003-1275114-1129000-1129007-1392574,enEN.html\">pattern that appeals to you<\/a> (luckily for the designer I could see past the awful fabric choices on the model.)<br \/>\n2. Measure squirmy toddler, decide on size.<br \/>\n3. Cut pieces.<br \/>\n4. Spend hours pinning, sewing, pressing and topstitching.<br \/>\n5. Try dress on toddler and realize&#8230;you have a very skinny toddler.  And the dress?  The dress is not skinny.  In fact, the dress has a whopping 8&#8243; of ease around the toddler&#8217;s skinny little ribcage.<br \/>\n6. Have sinking feeling in pit of stomach after realizing that 8&#8243; of ease in a dress that&#8217;s only 28&#8243; in circumference is, well, ridiculous.<br \/>\n7. Dissolve into tears when your mother concurs that, really, the dress looks a lot more like pajamas than a dress.<br \/>\n8. Spend hours with your mother picking out (double-stitched!) seams, fudging new armhole openings, <i>cutting pieces off of the dress that was completely finished<\/i>, and stitching it all back together.<br \/>\n9. Press the thing, put it on a hanger and wait until morning.<br \/>\n10. Try it on the toddler who never stands still and do a little happy dance since it actually looks like a dress instead of a flour sack now.<\/p>\n<p>So here&#8217;s the dress.  Technically it&#8217;s not completely finished, as I can&#8217;t get Carrie to stand still enough for the split second it would take to figure out where to hem the sleeves.  I&#8217;m going to have to baste them where I think they should fall and try it on her again.<br \/>\n<center><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"christmas_dress_altered.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/images\/crafts\/2006\/christmas_dress_altered.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"431\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nAlso, there&#8217;s a pinafore that goes over top of this thing (added bonus: I can probably find a nice shirt to go under the pinafore and have another variation for some of the holiday things we&#8217;ll be doing next month).  This is the bodice before I&#8217;ve figured out how to cut it down to the right size, since I don&#8217;t want to have to alter it <i>after<\/i> I&#8217;ve sewn the whole thing this time.  It&#8217;s a very fine wale stretch corduroy that is not quite as bright as the picture shows.<br \/>\n<center><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"christmas_dress_pinafore_color.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/images\/crafts\/2006\/christmas_dress_pinafore_color.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"231\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Find a pattern that appeals to you (luckily for the designer I could see past the awful fabric choices on the model.) 2. Measure squirmy toddler, decide on size. 3. Cut pieces. 4. Spend hours pinning, sewing, pressing and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}