{"id":1912,"date":"2009-09-29T00:14:20","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T04:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=1912"},"modified":"2012-03-08T20:22:09","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T01:22:09","slug":"brother-sister-ready-to-smock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/29\/brother-sister-ready-to-smock\/","title":{"rendered":"Brother-Sister Bishop and Bubble"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It is so much fun to see Laurel and Robert in matching brother-sister outfits. Why I have no pictures of the two of them together in this set\u00c2\u00a0is a mystery to me.\u00c2\u00a0Perhaps, \u00c2\u00a0I was just too busy enjoying my first two grandchildren to take many pictures.<\/p>\n

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These Easter garments were made some time ago but the children looked so sweet in them that I am strolling down memory lane in this post. Both Laurel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s white angel sleeve bishop and Robert\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bubble are easy care polycotton ready to smock garments. Their mother always appreciates that. And it is much easier to customize them than I originally thought.<\/p>\n

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The bishop dress came with the standard puff sleeves with 3 rows of pleating threads above the shirttail hem. But the angel sleeve style is my favorite for summer bishops so that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what I made.<\/p>\n

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Digging into my stash of heirloom trims, I found a yellow Swiss edging that was suitable for both a boy and a girl. The bishop sleeve was cut away to just below the last pleating thread on the body of the dress.\u00c2\u00a0 A matching yellow Swiss insertion was added to the skirt, below\u00c2\u00a0three growth\u00c2\u00a0tucks.<\/p>\n

As is my preference, the front and back are smocked several rows deeper than the sleeves, using a variation of Ellen McCarn’s Tina\u00c2\u00a0 smocking plate.<\/p>\n

The buttons are antique yellow pearl with machine embroidery stitched between the buttonholes.<\/p>\n

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Several years ago, at an antique mall, there was a booth with lots of vintage sewing notions.\u00c2\u00a0 I was lucky enough to buy several cards of colored pearl buttons (pink, yellow, blue, green and a soft teal) on their original cards which were decorated with charming Gerber baby tykes.<\/p>\n

I sealed them up in a zip lock bag and, due to\u00c2\u00a0some sort of mysterious chemistry that went on between the\u00c2\u00a0airtight bag and the\u00c2\u00a0buttons, the color\u00c2\u00a0faded or disappeared from\u00c2\u00a0many of the buttons.\u00c2\u00a0 Fortunately, the yellow ones on Laurel’s dress survived the suffocation. Now, the remaining colored pearl buttons are in a fabric bag.<\/p>\n

Robert\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bubble is smocked with Ellen McCarn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s monogram. The same Swiss trim is added to the cuff of his sleeves. He was still very drooly at this age, so I made matching bibs for both children, in order to keep Easter dinner and Laurel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s birthday cake off their clothes. Somehow, removing the bibs was forgotten before these pictures were taken.<\/p>\n

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At 4 and 5 years old now, the children will probably not be willing to wear matching clothes much longer. But I have certainly enjoyed making the outfits that I have and will continue as long as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is so much fun to see Laurel and Robert in matching brother-sister outfits. Why I have no pictures of the two of them together in this set\u00c2\u00a0is a mystery to me.\u00c2\u00a0Perhaps, \u00c2\u00a0I was just too busy enjoying my first … 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":[16,22,8,28,5,18,27,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912"}],"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=1912"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21392,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions\/21392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}