{"id":19947,"date":"2011-12-16T00:01:03","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T05:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=19947"},"modified":"2011-12-20T17:23:11","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T22:23:11","slug":"boys-christmas-vest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/16\/boys-christmas-vest\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy’s Christmas Vest"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Six year-old Robert’s Christmas vest is finally ready.\u00c2\u00a0 With dress pants and shoes, he will look very grown up.\u00c2\u00a0 Initially,\u00c2\u00a0 a vest was not what I wanted for the little guy I have dressed in smocked rompers<\/a> and Jon-Jons<\/a> for Christmases past.\u00c2\u00a0 Sadly, there will be no more button-on suits for my towheaded boy.<\/p>\n

Anyway, his skinny little bird legs don’t look as good in short pants as they did when he was a toddler.\u00c2\u00a0 That boy needs to eat more gingerbread and pumpkin pie, which he would do happily if he didn’t have to eat his vegetables first.<\/p>\n

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Robert is no great fan of picture taking, but I did manage to get this shot of him wearing the vest after church on Sunday.\u00c2\u00a0 Laurel, always cooperative, wore last year’s Christmas dress<\/a> with the hem dropped. The obvious crease mark is covered by a narrow tuck, bordered top and bottom with a 6mm twin needle serpentine stitch.<\/p>\n

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Robert is a big boy now and I am somewhat reconciled to the fact that he is growing up. Not completely, but somewhat.<\/p>\n

He looks so much like his father did at this age, except for the skinny legs.\u00c2\u00a0 For Christmas 1980, my own six-year old towhead Ryan wore a hunter green velveteen eton suit with an ivory shirt.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 It was smocked with a toy soldier at each shoulder.\u00c2\u00a0 At the Sunday School Christmas Eve program, he played a piano solo, Good\u00c2\u00a0 King Wenceslas, while my heart swelled with love and pride. Ahh…the memories.\u00c2\u00a0 But I digress.\u00c2\u00a0 Back to the vest.<\/p>\n

Robert loves it and said he’d like one in black like the velveteen dress Laurel was wearing.\u00c2\u00a0 After Christmas, I’ll get right on that.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m really tired of making him sports tee shirts, so this will be a welcome change in projects for him.<\/p>\n

My friend Suzanne, grandmother to four boys, suggested the vest’s front pocket.\u00c2\u00a0 For several years, she has made vests for these grandsons and likes to add a pocket with a holiday handkerchief.<\/p>\n

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Of course, boys being boys, the “handkerchief” is just a folded corner handsewn\u00c2\u00a0 into the vest.\u00c2\u00a0 This was done\u00c2\u00a0 so that the handkerchief could be replaced easily for other celebratory occasions.<\/p>\n

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The embroidery consists of a sprig of holly I extracted from a Babylock Christmas design.\u00c2\u00a0 His monogram was added with my favorite font in Brother’s PE-Design.\u00c2\u00a0 So few script fonts have an absolutely vertical presentation.\u00c2\u00a0 This one, #22, is perfect and can be sized from teensey tiny to gigantic.<\/p>\n

The velveteen is the same fabric used on his sister’s dres<\/a>s and will coordinate with Cousin Alastair’s Christmas outfit, soon to be completed.<\/p>\n

I can’t believe that I have not yet finished my have-to Christmas sewing at this late date.\u00c2\u00a0 The patterns for Laurel’s new American Girls doll are stacked on the cutting table, calling to me.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve also started knitting a little sweater for the doll in order to have handwork for waiting room time at the dentist, etc.<\/p>\n

Are you feeling frenzied?\u00c2\u00a0 Let me know how you are coming along with your Christmas sewing.***<\/p>\n

All this boy chat reminds me…..speaking of boys……..<\/p>\n

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Alastair, 2, ready for rainy days and floods<\/p><\/div>\n

Two-year-old Alastair is infatuated with his yellow boots.\u00c2\u00a0 He insists on wearing them every day and at bedtime last night had them removed by his mother as he kicked and screamed his protest.<\/p>\n

I hope he’s over them by Christmas.\u00c2\u00a0 Those yellow boots will kill the classic presentation of\u00c2\u00a0 his velveteen pants and ivory linen shirt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Six year-old Robert’s Christmas vest is finally ready.\u00c2\u00a0 With dress pants and shoes, he will look very grown up.\u00c2\u00a0 Initially,\u00c2\u00a0 a vest was not what I wanted for the little guy I have dressed in smocked rompers and Jon-Jons for … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":19949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19947"}],"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=19947"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20055,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19947\/revisions\/20055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}