{"id":10064,"date":"2010-12-01T00:00:45","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T05:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=10064"},"modified":"2014-12-23T01:56:04","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T06:56:04","slug":"roberts-christmas-shirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/01\/roberts-christmas-shirt\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert’s Christmas Shirt"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Finally, 5 year-old Robert’s Christmas shirt is done.\u00c2\u00a0 His long black pants are pressed and ready to wear as soon as I buy a belt to keep them up.\u00c2\u00a0 Then he will be ready for The Nutcracker.<\/p>\n

After all the interruptions and delays, I am glad to have this project finished.\u00c2\u00a0 The fabric is Martha’s Favorite Linen <\/em>from Martha Pullen and\u00c2\u00a0 shirt pattern Hudson’s Sunday Suit\u00c2\u00a0<\/em> is from Ginger Snaps.\u00c2\u00a0 Like all Nancy Coburn’s Ginger Snaps patterns, the directions are very clear with great photo illustrations and many design options.<\/p>\n

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That crooked embroidery design drove me crazy. But it was too late to redo it.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The\u00c2\u00a0nutcracker design\u00c2\u00a0from A Bit of Stitch<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/em> is surrounded by a candy cane frame from Adorable Ideas<\/em>, narrowed in my heavily used BuzzEdit2<\/em> program.<\/p>\n

Black lace tape, run vertically on either side of the embroidery, is embellished with a decorative stitch from my Brother Duetta 6500D.\u00c2\u00a0 The same stitch is worked on the back , around the collar and on the mock sleeve cuffs.\u00c2\u00a0My personal name for this stitch is barbed wire, and like its namesake, it jabbed me with aggravation.<\/p>\n

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The last area to embellish with barbed wire was the collar.\u00c2\u00a0 YIKES!\u00c2\u00a0 This stitch pattern is a nightmare to try to pivot!\u00c2\u00a0 What was I thinking?<\/p>\n

Initially, I planned to use a feather stitch, but it seemed time to try something different.\u00c2\u00a0 Even a feather stitch would have been extremely difficult to pivot on the collar points, but the barbed wire stitch was enough to make me consider hand stitching.<\/p>\n

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If I had not already done all the other pieces, I might have tried that on the collar, if no machine stitch suited me. But, alas, I had<\/em> done all the other stitching so I just had to make it work.\u00c2\u00a0 It required a few stitches done by hand, and even then it is not perfect.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s very humbling to know that even with my best effort, I could not get it right.<\/p>\n

The collar is piped in black and the buttons are black mother-of-pearl.<\/p>\n

I’m not completely satisfied with this shirt.\u00c2\u00a0 Aside from the pivoting imperfections and the crooked embroidery, the lace tape, I think, was a mistake.\u00c2\u00a0 Even though I used Stitch&Ditch under the barbed wire stitching, it pulled the soft, loose threads of the lace tape.\u00c2\u00a0 The distortions in the weave are not glaringly obvious, but a solid black bias would have been more pleasing.\u00c2\u00a0 I will use that on Alastair’s shirt.<\/p>\n

Still lined up in\u00c2\u00a0 the queue of grandchildren sewing projects are Alastair’s outfit, Robert’s shorts, Laurel’s slip and a matching dress for her American Girls doll. Then I’ll see how much time is left for the rest of the family.\u00c2\u00a0 Whew!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Finally, 5 year-old Robert’s Christmas shirt is done.\u00c2\u00a0 His long black pants are pressed and ready to wear as soon as I buy a belt to keep them up.\u00c2\u00a0 Then he will be ready for The Nutcracker. After all … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,22,4,28,43,40,18],"tags":[389,1062,1065,388],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10064"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10064"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32417,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10064\/revisions\/32417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}