{"id":10811,"date":"2011-01-24T23:48:10","date_gmt":"2011-01-25T04:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=10811"},"modified":"2012-02-08T23:31:15","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T04:31:15","slug":"mollys-bishop-meadow-dress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/24\/mollys-bishop-meadow-dress\/","title":{"rendered":"Molly’s Novelty Bishop Dress"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Laurel is dancing on the ceiling with excitement over her new American Girls doll clothes.\u00c2\u00a0 I was pretty excited myself when I discovered\u00c2\u00a0 that a packed-away treasure trove of samples would fit Laurel’s doll Molly.\u00c2\u00a0 These were all made for the doll schools Mildred Turner and I did around the country.<\/p>\n

The dolls for those events were 20″ porcelain.\u00c2\u00a0 Styles were shorter then, so the 2″ difference in the dolls’ height is to\u00c2\u00a018″ Molly’s\u00c2\u00a0advantage now. I would have enjoyed making these garments even more if I had known that someday I would have this precious granddaughter to share them with.<\/p>\n

I’ve always been a big fan of the\u00c2\u00a0bishop style.\u00c2\u00a0 The ease of construction, the comfort for a child, the versatility of the pattern–all these features appeal to me.\u00c2\u00a0 This dress is what I call a novelty bishop.\u00c2\u00a0 About a hundred years ago, at the first SAGA regional convention in Spartanburg, SC, I took a pleater class from Connie Harbor.\u00c2\u00a0 She called anything that was not a standard yoke dress or bishop, a novelty, requiring special pleating.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Hence, the name.<\/p>\n

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There are earlier posts on this technique which substitutes a solid fabric for the smocked portion of a print bishop dress.\u00c2\u00a0 Smocking on prints can be tricky and on this classic Liberty of London tanna lawn print it would be even more so.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

The sleeves\u00c2\u00a0are longer than the sweet ruffle sleeves\u00c2\u00a0as seen on Children’s Corner Gwen<\/em> bishop pattern.\u00c2\u00a0 These are simply unsmocked and edged in a tiny black dot French lace.\u00c2\u00a0 The same lace trims the smocked area.<\/p>\n

Laurel and I are having so much fun with these clothes and her doll.\u00c2\u00a0 This afternoon, my dear husband Bob took Robert to flag football practice and Laurel\u00c2\u00a0tagged along.\u00c2\u00a0 She was excited about playing American Girls with the sister of one of Robert’s teammates.\u00c2\u00a0While I was at dinner with\u00c2\u00a0the PlayGroup Mamas, Bob took them to dinner and then brought them to our house to spend the night.<\/p>\n

When I got home, Laurel chattered about playing with Caitlin and enjoying one another’s dolls.\u00c2\u00a0 Then Laurel confided,\u00c2\u00a0 “Nana, Caitlin’s Bitty Baby reeeeeeally needs to go to the doll hospital.\u00c2\u00a0 She has black marker alllllllll over her face!\u00c2\u00a0 You can’t even see a spot that is not covered in marker!”<\/p>\n

“Why did Caitlin do that to her doll?” I asked.<\/p>\n

Laurel rolled her eyes and replied, “She told me that the dolls do that to each other at night while she is asleep.\u00c2\u00a0 But I don’t think so.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Laurel is dancing on the ceiling with excitement over her new American Girls doll clothes.\u00c2\u00a0 I was pretty excited myself when I discovered\u00c2\u00a0 that a packed-away treasure trove of samples would fit Laurel’s doll Molly.\u00c2\u00a0 These were all made for … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10811"}],"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=10811"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10811\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20924,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10811\/revisions\/20924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}