{"id":23768,"date":"2012-07-26T05:50:30","date_gmt":"2012-07-26T09:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=23768"},"modified":"2014-12-20T02:29:36","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T07:29:36","slug":"free-precious-preemie-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/26\/free-precious-preemie-patterns\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Precious Preemie Patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23770\" style=\"width: 346px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/SB-pic1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23770\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23770\" title=\"SB pic\" src=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/SB-pic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"336\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/SB-pic1.jpg 336w, http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/SB-pic1-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23770\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">as shown in Sew Beautiful issue #118<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>NOTE:\u00c2\u00a0 The link for the free pattern from Southern Stitches has been updated.\u00c2\u00a0 If you were unsuccessful before, try again.\u00c2\u00a0 It works now.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was just delighted to find free patterns for preemies from Laurie Anderson of\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Southern Stitches.\u00c2\u00a0 The patterns are included in issue #118 of Sew Beautiful magazine but are also available here at Laurie&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southern-stitches.com\/weecare-threads-of-love.php\">Southern Stitches<\/a> web site.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<dl id=\"attachment_23777\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 485px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/preemie-gowns-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-23777     \" title=\"preemie gowns 2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/preemie-gowns-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/preemie-gowns-2.jpg 475w, http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/preemie-gowns-2-268x300.jpg 268w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<p><em>More preemie garments from Laurie Anderson&#8217;s free patterns, as shown in Sew Beautiful issue #118.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>At that web site you will find her lovely machine embroidered shadow work designs and lots of other goodies.\u00c2\u00a0 By clicking on <strong>Sew Beautiful Published Freebies<\/strong> you will find the free downloads of the preemie patterns, as well as free hand embroidery bullion knot designs for bunnies.\u00c2\u00a0 Laurie even offers free machine embroidery designs.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Every issue of <em>Sew Beautiful<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 and <em>Creative Needle<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 magazines is carefully filed away in my sewing room.\u00c2\u00a0 As each arrived, I read through it thoroughly, but rarely can recall articles that did not have immediate usefulness.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">So when I wanted to sew for sweet<a title=\"Remember that tiny baby girl?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/21\/remember-that-tiny-baby-girl\/\"> preemie Lily<\/a>, I had completely forgotten about this article.\u00c2\u00a0 Now, I have downloaded the free patterns and have them available when\u00c2\u00a0 the need arises again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Laurie is involved in the caring ministry of <a href=\"http:\/\/threadsoflove.org\">Threads of Love<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Each day dozens of babies are born too\u00c2\u00a0 tiny to live or premature and at great risk. Their families are rarely prepared with the wee clothes need for these babies who are born too soon.\u00c2\u00a0 Threads of Love works to fill that need by donating preemie clothing and burial gowns to hospitals.\u00c2\u00a0 If you would like to participate in that program, click on the link above to contact them.\u00c2\u00a0 Meanwhile, you might want to download these patterns so they will be handy if the need arises within your own circle of family and friends.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Thanks, Laurie, for your generous gift of these patterns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; NOTE:\u00c2\u00a0 The link for the free pattern from Southern Stitches has been updated.\u00c2\u00a0 If you were unsuccessful before, try again.\u00c2\u00a0 It works now. I was just delighted to find free patterns for preemies from Laurie Anderson of\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Southern Stitches.\u00c2\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/26\/free-precious-preemie-patterns\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[76,5],"tags":[317,316],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23768"}],"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=23768"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40747,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23768\/revisions\/40747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}