{"id":20743,"date":"2012-01-30T05:45:44","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T10:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=20743"},"modified":"2017-08-17T20:15:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T00:15:14","slug":"ag-doll-bishop-with-centered-embroidery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/30\/ag-doll-bishop-with-centered-embroidery\/","title":{"rendered":"AG Doll Bishop with Centered Embroidery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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American Girl doll Marie Grace in her Valentine nightie<\/p><\/div>\n

For Valentine’s Day, I am making my 7 year-old granddaughter a smocked bishop nightgown and this matching one for her American Girl doll.\u00c2\u00a0 If these hadn’t been cut out and pleated up before I got Custom Keepsakes\u00c2\u00a0 Sweet Dreams<\/a><\/em> collection, I would be making nighties from that set.\u00c2\u00a0 But these have to be finished.<\/p>\n

I wanted something a little more interesting than a standard bishop and decided centered embroidery would be a fresh look.\u00c2\u00a0 More than once, I have flattened the pleats at center front for embroidery or a tab and never found it to neither difficult nor problematic.<\/p>\n

Doing this on a doll sized bishop gave me some unexpected disappointments.\u00c2\u00a0 I’d like to share with you what I learned on this little project.<\/p>\n

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But here are the particulars of the nightie.\u00c2\u00a0 The smocking is a design I just made up as I went along,\u00c2\u00a0 the fabric is Imperial batiste and the pattern is one I drafted. The embroidery is from Martha Pullen’s Little Pleasures<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 collection, though it is slightly rearranged.\u00c2\u00a0 Laurel’s gown will have the fil tire’ heart for embroidery.<\/p>\n

The smocked sleeves were trimmed with French lace and embellished with French knot flowers, a cluster of three in the center and a single knot on either side.<\/p>\n

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Frankly, this is all nit-picky stuff and probably isn’t worth worrying about on a doll nightgown.\u00c2\u00a0 But I wanted to figure out just what went wrong.\u00c2\u00a0 If you don’t care, take a quick look at the pictures and move on!\u00c2\u00a0 The internet is full of fabulous blogs with interesting, fun posts.<\/p>\n

First, in response to Jo’s question, just how do you prepare a bishop with center front embroidery<\/strong><\/em>?<\/p>\n