{"id":10334,"date":"2010-12-17T21:56:56","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T02:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=10334"},"modified":"2014-12-22T23:50:58","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T04:50:58","slug":"alastair-the-mouse-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/17\/alastair-the-mouse-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Alastair, the Mouse King"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AltheMouseKing\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Alastair’s Christmas suit is finished and ready to wear.\u00c2\u00a0 The pants pattern is from the book Sewing for Jack and Jill<\/strong><\/em>, by Martha Pullen.\u00c2\u00a0 It begins with the basic button-on pants pattern and\u00c2\u00a0simply adds a template for the V front.\u00c2\u00a0 It would be easy enough to draft if the book were not available.<\/p>\n

This pattern has become a favorite of mine.\u00c2\u00a0 The V-front pants seem more elegant and suitable for special occasions.\u00c2\u00a0 The V also creates an ideal frame for embroidery on the shirt.<\/p>\n

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\"MousekingVpants\"<\/a>

MP pants<\/p><\/div>\n

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The black velveteen pants are lined with black Imperial broadcloth.\u00c2\u00a0 The abalone buttons were found at Farmhouse Fabrics<\/a> and they are\u00c2\u00a0just lovely.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I wanted to use the same buttons on the shirt and pants, but black would not show up on the pants and white or ivory would not show up on the back of the shirt.\u00c2\u00a0 The pearly grey abalone buttons\u00c2\u00a0offer contrast to both\u00c2\u00a0fabrics and\u00c2\u00a0shimmer in the light.\u00c2\u00a0They are perfect.<\/p>\n

The only glitch I encountered in making the pants was\u00c2\u00a0with the buttons.\u00c2\u00a0 I would strongly advise anyone making the V-front pants\u00c2\u00a0to use shank buttons which look uniform regardless on the direction of the stitching that holds the shank in place.<\/p>\n

I used two hole abalone buttons and love the look of them.\u00c2\u00a0But because the strap comes into the buttonhole at an angle, the buttons must be rotated to that same angle or the stitching will be diagonal.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The other buttons are sewn in a\u00c2\u00a0horizontal direction.<\/p>\n

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\"GingerSnaps<\/a>

GingerSnaps shirt pattern<\/p><\/div>\n

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When rotated properly, the buttons look like a fleet of UFO’s in perfect formation.\u00c2\u00a0I sewed each of the strap buttons on at least 4 times before I\u00c2\u00a0learned to\u00c2\u00a0simply insert a pin into the strap at the correct angle.\u00c2\u00a0 This\u00c2\u00a0offered a much greater likelihood of success.\u00c2\u00a0 I was tickled pink to be done sewing those buttons on.\u00c2\u00a0 Shank buttonwith that.<\/p>\n

As mentioned in a previous post, the shirt pattern is Ginger Snaps’ Hudson’s Sunday Suit<\/strong><\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0www.gingersnapsdesigns.com<\/a> \u00c2\u00a0I used this pattern for both Alastair and Robert’s shirt.\u00c2\u00a0 It just falls together, it is so easy.\u00c2\u00a0 This has become another favorite pattern.<\/p>\n

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\"MouseKingshirtcrop\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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The embroidery design is from Nutcracker Motifs<\/strong><\/em> by A Bit of Stitc<\/a>h .\u00c2\u00a0 I sent a picture of the finished outfit to my Aunt Rheeta.\u00c2\u00a0 She made the sweetest comment saying, “I can just see him in it.\u00c2\u00a0 As is, it’s beautiful but when he is in it, it won’t be noticed at all.”<\/p>\n

That’s always the goal of classic children’s clothing.\u00c2\u00a0 The attention should be on the child, not the garment.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0It is \u00c2\u00a0just like a picture frame for a prize winning photo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Alastair’s Christmas suit is finished and ready to wear.\u00c2\u00a0 The pants pattern is from the book Sewing for Jack and Jill, by Martha Pullen.\u00c2\u00a0 It begins with the basic button-on pants pattern and\u00c2\u00a0simply adds a template for the V … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,4,28,18],"tags":[1062,364,1056,385,386,387],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10334"}],"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=10334"}],"version-history":[{"count":35,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32409,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10334\/revisions\/32409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}