{"id":24715,"date":"2012-10-24T12:30:59","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T16:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=24715"},"modified":"2014-12-26T19:20:22","modified_gmt":"2014-12-27T00:20:22","slug":"fabulous-nursery-by-kathy-dykstra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/24\/fabulous-nursery-by-kathy-dykstra\/","title":{"rendered":"Fabulous Nursery by Kathy Dykstra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love writing this blog.\u00c2\u00a0 Aside from the satisfaction of\u00c2\u00a0 recording my sewing projects and learning from readers, I have met so many new sewing friends. \u00c2\u00a0 Seeing pictures of your projects and hearing about your sewing makes my heart smile and my face grin.<\/p>\n<p>Kathy Dykstra is one of these treasured new friends.\u00c2\u00a0 Her projects are seen frequently in <em>Sew Beautiful<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 magazine and also have appeared in <em>Australian Smocking &amp; Embroidery <\/em>which featured her extremely popular and highly sought after pattern,<strong> Temily<\/strong>.<em> (If anyone has a copy of this issue with the pattern intact, I would LOVE to buy it from you.)<\/em> \u00c2\u00a0 In fact, the current<em> Sew Beautiful<\/em>, Vol. 26, #6, features her pattern <em><strong>Wrap it Up! <\/strong><\/em>in sizes 4-10.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SB-scan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24721\" title=\"SB scan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SB-scan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"753\" height=\"1036\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SB-scan.jpg 753w, http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SB-scan-218x300.jpg 218w, http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SB-scan-744x1024.jpg 744w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 753px) 100vw, 753px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Her projects are <em>Pinterest<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 pinned and repinned again and again.<\/p>\n<p>Kathy shared these photos of the absolutely wonderful nursery she and her daughters made for little Olivia.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/nursery-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24722\" title=\"nursery 1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/nursery-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/nursery-11.jpg 960w, http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/nursery-11-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They began with Plan A, painted the walls bright turquois with lime green for trim.\u00c2\u00a0 When it was apparent that this baby was to be feminine little Olivia, Plan B was initiated and pink was added to the color palette.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Like the work-in-progress <a title=\"Making a Scene~Bassinette Skirt and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Francesco\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\" href=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/29\/making-a-scenebassinette-skirt-and-francesco\/\">bassinette skirt<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 for my Rebecca, the theme of this nursery was to be sheep.\u00c2\u00a0 Don&#8217;t you just love the wall mural and sheep?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 And\u00c2\u00a0 the way the text, &#8220;Count the sheep and go to sleep,&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 is arced over the colorful numbers.\u00c2\u00a0 That was the artistic contribution of the youngest of Kathy&#8217;s three daughters.<\/p>\n<p>Her oldest daughter, who is already the mother of a 2 1\/2 year old little girl and is expecting another, made the curtains.<\/p>\n<p>Kathy stitched all the bedding, pillows, ottoman cover and window seat cushion.<\/p>\n<p>I love this nursery.\u00c2\u00a0 I bet Olivia does too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love writing this blog.\u00c2\u00a0 Aside from the satisfaction of\u00c2\u00a0 recording my sewing projects and learning from readers, I have met so many new sewing friends. \u00c2\u00a0 Seeing pictures of your projects and hearing about your sewing makes my heart &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/24\/fabulous-nursery-by-kathy-dykstra\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,19,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24715"}],"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=24715"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32442,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24715\/revisions\/32442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}