{"id":25156,"date":"2012-12-15T05:50:25","date_gmt":"2012-12-15T10:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=25156"},"modified":"2016-09-25T00:16:45","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T04:16:45","slug":"for-a-musical-biker-chef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/15\/for-a-musical-biker-chef\/","title":{"rendered":"For a Musical Biker Chef"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"chef<\/a><\/p>\n

When my daughter asked me to make a Christmas stocking for her husband, Harvey, I dragged my feet.\u00c2\u00a0 Knowing it needed to be unique and personal, I had no inspiration.\u00c2\u00a0 That was three years ago.\u00c2\u00a0 I reeeeally dragged my feet.<\/p>\n

Last week, she sent a note asking would I please start working on Harvey’s stocking next summer.\u00c2\u00a0 That got to me.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 She suggested something like a biking Santa or a chef.\u00c2\u00a0 Bingo!\u00c2\u00a0 I had my inspiration.<\/p>\n

It shouldn’t have been that hard for me.\u00c2\u00a0 But he is an absolute computer genius so I was hung\u00c2\u00a0 up on that angle.\u00c2\u00a0 Now, focusing on his biking, cooking and musical skill, I could move ahead.<\/p>\n

My fabulous son-in-law is an incredible chef.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 My daughter, bless her heart, makes great toast and hot chocolate.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s all.\u00c2\u00a0 So Harvey does all the cooking, enthusiastically. Last year’s Christmas<\/a> dinner has become a family legend.\u00c2\u00a0 And Rebecca sets a lovely table.<\/p>\n

\"goose\"<\/a>

Chef Harvey’s Christmas goose 2011<\/p><\/div>\n

Harvey is as passionate about biking as he is about cooking.\u00c2\u00a0 This past summer he joined almost 10,000 bikers on the the RAGBRAI\u00c2\u00a0 (Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa<\/strong>) bike safari, pedaling 525 miles across and around Iowa, in July<\/em><\/span>, on purpose!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Once Rebecca had given me inspiration, the Amazing Designs French Chefs<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 collection came to mind.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m no big fan of chef designs (my daughter learned to cook from me) for my personal use because I don’t like to draw attention to my shortcomings.\u00c2\u00a0 But in my humble opinion, this is one of the most artistically designed and meticulously digitized embroidery collections ever.\u00c2\u00a0 The shading and detail are just amazing.\u00c2\u00a0 This doesn’t show the shading, but at least you can see the designs.<\/p>\n

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Sadly, this set is no longer available from Amazing Designs. I often wonder why embroidery design companies discontinue collections.<\/p>\n

The biker chef with the chicken on his hat was selected, mirror imaged and edited to wear a Santa hat.\u00c2\u00a0 The chicken riding in the bread basket (YUKK!!!) was replaced with a small Christmas tree.\u00c2\u00a0 And the bike was stitched in red, like Harvey’s bike.<\/p>\n

\"biker<\/a><\/p>\n

Harvey is also very musical and was a member of the University of Pennsylvania marching band.\u00c2\u00a0 Needing a design to fill in the toe of the stocking, the musical staff and holly design fit nicely and repeated the \u00c2\u00a0 Fa la la la la<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 music themed text\u00c2\u00a0 introduced above the chef.\u00c2\u00a0 The stars and swirls were added as filler and to brighten up the dark background.<\/p>\n

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\"musical<\/a><\/p>\n

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The body of the stocking is loden green ultrasuede, trimmed with jumbo black piping and a candy striped corded edge.\u00c2\u00a0 The lining is a muted red and green plaid. The polar fleece cuff was serged with the wave stitch and embroidered with Harvey’s name.<\/p>\n

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\"AlChristmastockingwhole\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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The stocking will look nice hanging next to the black ultrasuede<\/a> one I made for Alastair.\u00c2\u00a0 Rebecca’s 34 year-old hand knit sock is a very different style.\u00c2\u00a0 It will be interesting to see if sentimentality overrules her Sugarbaker design sense.\u00c2\u00a0 hmmmmmm….though I do have some deep rose ultrasuede in my stash.<\/p>\n

What are you sewing for Christmas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When my daughter asked me to make a Christmas stocking for her husband, Harvey, I dragged my feet.\u00c2\u00a0 Knowing it needed to be unique and personal, I had no inspiration.\u00c2\u00a0 That was three years ago.\u00c2\u00a0 I reeeeally dragged my feet. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":25157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43,18,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25156"}],"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=25156"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36285,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25156\/revisions\/36285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}