{"id":12240,"date":"2011-04-10T03:09:33","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T07:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=12240"},"modified":"2011-05-15T02:00:19","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T06:00:19","slug":"easter-11-progress-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/10\/easter-11-progress-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter Good Fortune"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"\"<\/a>Don’t you just love a good sewing day?\u00c2\u00a0 Every now and again, everything seems to go just right.\u00c2\u00a0 This was such a day.\u00c2\u00a0 I should have bought a lottery ticket.<\/p>\n

Of course, I am hard at work on Laurel’s Easter frock, Judith Dobson’s Heirloom Tea Dress (see three previous posts). The flip flop lace above the puffing was a new\u00c2\u00a0experience for me.\u00c2\u00a0 Sometimes, new methods can go bad when you are\u00c2\u00a0facing a deadline and working on an important project.\u00c2\u00a0 But flip flopping was quick and easy.\u00c2\u00a0It made me feel a little political.<\/p>\n

I have always hesitated to flip flop.\u00c2\u00a0 The name is a little wacky and it reminds\u00c2\u00a0 me of\u00c2\u00a0election campaigns.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Additionally, \u00c2\u00a0I don’t like to see the\u00c2\u00a0back side of lace on the front side of my garment.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0But the lace\u00c2\u00a0I\u00c2\u00a0selected has a very intricate pattern, making it hard to tell the right side from wrong.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 It seemed\u00c2\u00a0like a good\u00c2\u00a0choice for this technique.\u00c2\u00a0\"\"<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

So I marched on and was happy\u00c2\u00a0 that I didn’t cut the lace when trimming away the base fabric from underneath.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0All the pinstitch\u00c2\u00a0pivots turned nicely and the puffing band joined to the skirt without incident.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0Not only that— my bobbins didn’t\u00c2\u00a0give out before the seam or pass ended. Life is good.\u00c2\u00a0 And it wasn’t even dinner time\u00c2\u00a0 yet.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

After rinsing out the blue marker lines and waiting for the skirt to dry, I even got started on the petticoat.\u00c2\u00a0 I hadn’t really thought much about the\u00c2\u00a0blue slip until I was ready to cut it out.\u00c2\u00a0\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0Then it occurred to\u00c2\u00a0me that\u00c2\u00a0the bodice\u00c2\u00a0had to have the same lines as the dress.\u00c2\u00a0 Using the same pattern piece, I simply marked the skirt seam line 1\/2″ lower than the lace insertion.\u00c2\u00a0 This allows the blue batiste to lie flat under the lace and for\u00c2\u00a0 the gathers to fall\u00c2\u00a0just below the lace.<\/p>\n

The other modifications were few and simple.\u00c2\u00a0 The neckline was cut 3\/8″ lower and\u00c2\u00a01\/2″ was trimmed away from the shoulder and down the armscye.\u00c2\u00a0 When the skirt was dry, I put the slip bodice aside.\u00c2\u00a0 But I\u00c2\u00a0 feel like I have a head start on it.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

To\u00c2\u00a0top off\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0my afternoon of good sewing luck, Bob brought in Chinese food for dinner so I didn’t have to cook.\u00c2\u00a0 He had egg foo yung, I had lemon chicken and we each had a fortune cookie.\u00c2\u00a0 I couldn’t believe it when I read mine.\u00c2\u00a0 It said, “You will prosper in the field of wacky inventions.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00c2\u00a0 Don’t you just love a good sewing day?\u00c2\u00a0 Every now and again, everything seems to go just right.\u00c2\u00a0 This was such a day.\u00c2\u00a0 I should have bought a lottery ticket. Of course, I am hard at work on Laurel’s … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,28,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12240"}],"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=12240"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12264,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12240\/revisions\/12264"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}