{"id":11338,"date":"2011-02-14T15:52:20","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T20:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=11338"},"modified":"2011-05-12T13:11:53","modified_gmt":"2011-05-12T17:11:53","slug":"love-for-laurel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/14\/love-for-laurel\/","title":{"rendered":"LOVE for Laurel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Every year for Valentine’s Day, I plan to follow James Taylor’s advice\u00c2\u00a0to “Shower the People You Love with Love.”\u00c2\u00a0 If you are unfamiliar with this sweet ballad,\u00c2\u00a0 I suggest that you treat yourself to a few minutes of\u00c2\u00a0his wise counsel. http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pkAhQBbK-oM<\/a><\/p>\n

The good news is that I am blessed with so many people whom I love.\u00c2\u00a0 The bad news is\u00c2\u00a0that\u00c2\u00a0 I\u00c2\u00a0was unable to get a full blown love shower up by Feb. 14.\u00c2\u00a0 This year, it is more like a drizzle.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

I’ve started with my precious grandchildren and gotten not much further.\u00c2\u00a0 You’ve already seen the Egyptophile shirt I made for Robert.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The next post will show the shirt I made for Alastair and which he wore home\u00c2\u00a0after spending the weekend with us.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0This LOVE outfit is for my sweetheart and only granddaughter, Laurel Cade.<\/p>\n

When I found this red sale-rack pettiskirt I knew it was the perfect start for her Valentine’s Day party ensemble.\u00c2\u00a0I wish I had a big poufy hair bow to go with it.\u00c2\u00a0 My dear friend Judy Day is coming for a visit at the end of the week and will teach me to make the fabulous bows she makes for her granddaughters.\u00c2\u00a0\"\"<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

NOTE: Have you seen the darling design for boys that says “I like girls with big hair bows.”\u00c2\u00a0 Next year I’ll make that for Alastair whose\u00c2\u00a0prissy playmates\u00c2\u00a0don\u00c2\u00a0these flirty hair accessories. <\/em><\/p>\n

A white shirt was pulled from my size 5-6 bag of blank shirts.\u00c2\u00a0 I added some ribbon roses at the neckline\u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0applique’d LOVE with letters from www.planetapplique.com<\/a>,\u00c2\u00a0Planet Applique’s\u00c2\u00a0Gobble Alphabet.<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0The gobblers were removed in BuzzEdit2.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

I wanted to add a heart to the O<\/em> in love and\u00c2\u00a0found just what I needed in\u00c2\u00a0Sew Many Designs www.sewmanydesigns.com<\/a> \u00c2\u00a0Say it With Love<\/em> collection.\u00c2\u00a0 The single heart was extracted from a double.\u00c2\u00a0 This heart, however, did not have Planet Applique’s signature bean stitch on top of the satin stitching.<\/p>\n

I was\u00c2\u00a0so pleased\u00c2\u00a0when I realized\u00c2\u00a0that with BuzzEdit2 I could add it!\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Have I told you lately that I love this program?\u00c2\u00a0 I didn’t have time for a test stitch out and consequently, the bean stitch on the heart is longer.\u00c2\u00a0 It \u00c2\u00a0has a length of 3.0 and the Planet Applique stitch must be 2.0 or 2.5.\u00c2\u00a0 But I\u00c2\u00a0 Laurel doesn’t mind.<\/p>\n

The letters were arranged in BuzzEdit2 and stitched out as one file in the largest hoop on my Brother Pacesetter ULT2003D.\u00c2\u00a0My Brother Duetta 6500D was busy stitching another design while I worked on the LOVE shirt.<\/p>\n

Laurel was pleased to see that each of the fabrics used in the LOVE applique’ were also used on her redwork quilt, including her favorite lipstick kiss in the center of the heart.\u00c2\u00a0She is learning the value of a hefty stash!<\/p>\n

Valentine’s Day is such a fun holiday.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s over for 2011, but for the rest of the year and years to come, I plan to shower the people I love with love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every year for Valentine’s Day, I plan to follow James Taylor’s advice\u00c2\u00a0to “Shower the People You Love with Love.”\u00c2\u00a0 If you are unfamiliar with this sweet ballad,\u00c2\u00a0 I suggest that you treat yourself to a few minutes of\u00c2\u00a0his wise counsel. … 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":[4,8,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11338"}],"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=11338"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13225,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11338\/revisions\/13225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}