{"id":26513,"date":"2013-04-30T15:20:24","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T19:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=26513"},"modified":"2015-02-02T01:39:36","modified_gmt":"2015-02-02T06:39:36","slug":"easter-outfits-by-judy-daygoing-with-the-flow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/30\/easter-outfits-by-judy-daygoing-with-the-flow\/","title":{"rendered":"Easter Outfits by Judy Day~~Going with the Flow"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many of you have been there—that place in time where your idea of what your child or grandchild should wear differs from that child’s opinion.\u00c2\u00a0 Selecting fabric, pattern, smocking design, etc. is so easy when\u00c2\u00a0 they are little, but as they develop their own personal taste you have to go with the flow.<\/p>\n

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Judy Day has done just that with fabulous results for her 9 year old granddaughters. Judy has always made holiday outfits in groups of 4, one for each girl and one for\u00c2\u00a0 each girl’s doll.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 But this year, she recognized and acknowledged her girls’ growing sense of individual style.\u00c2\u00a0 Well, at least their different color choices.<\/p>\n

Here is Judy’s story about the Easter outfits.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/p>\n

I had visions of smocked silk dupioni dancing in my head for Easter this year.\u00c2\u00a0 Pink for Courtney and lilac for Kennedy.\u00c2\u00a0 Their mothers wanted something more casual.\u00c2\u00a0 So I decided on a smocked sun dresses.<\/p>\n

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The pattern is KELLY<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 from Trisha’s Treasures by Trisha Smith.
\nwww.TrishasDesigns.com.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The pattern is sized 1-6 and 7-12.\u00c2\u00a0 This pattern has 2 options for the ties.\u00c2\u00a0 I chose to criss-cross the ties over the back and then run them through guides stitched at the waist and tied in a bow.\u00c2\u00a0 This keeps the back of the sundress from dipping at the center from the weight of the skirt.<\/p>\n

I dug around and found smocked inserts that I had done for the girls about 4 years ago and never used.\u00c2\u00a0 The smocking design is from Karen Faylor’s Venice<\/em>; Sew Beautiful Issue 113–2007.<\/p>\n

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With nothing in my stash that I\u00c2\u00a0 wanted to use and no time to order fabric, I\u00c2\u00a0 headed to JoAnn’s.\u00c2\u00a0 I was pleasantly surprised to find the perfect multi-color fabric.<\/p>\n

The fabric is Lisette<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 by Liesl & Co.\u00c2\u00a0 It is cotton sateen and the hand is luscious!\u00c2\u00a0 I had not seen this line at JoAnn’s before, but apparently they had it last year also.\u00c2\u00a0 I bought all they had and was a yard short of what the pattern called for to make 2 dresses.<\/p>\n

After measuring and folding and re-measuring,\u00c2\u00a0 I was able to cut both dresses with nothing left over after cutting the bias pieces.<\/p>\n

The pattern directions are well written and easy to follow with pictures and side tips included.\u00c2\u00a0 I did adapt\u00c2\u00a0the waist line to incorporate bias piping instead of a wide band. The woven ribbon personalized each\u00c2\u00a0dress for the girls with “their” color!<\/p>\n

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

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I was disappointed that there would be no doll dresses this year.\u00c2\u00a0 However, on my trip to Fl to “babysit,” I found more fabric at the JoAnn’s there!\u00c2\u00a0 So the dolls got matching dresses.<\/p>\n

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The doll dress pattern is an adaptaion of the Birthday Party Trio<\/em> pattern from\u00c2\u00a0 Joan Hinds 30-Minute Doll Clothes; Sewing with Nancy.\u00c2\u00a0 The smocked bodice for the doll dress was created from the arm hole cutout of the girls smocked bodice by whipping the straight sides of the smocking pieces together and adding more fabric on the sides…..can’t waste any smocking!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<\/p>\n

The dresses are lovely, Judy.\u00c2\u00a0 All FOUR of them and the headbands!\u00c2\u00a0 I especially love the use of the armhole cutout for the dolls’ smocked insert!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Many of you have been there—that place in time where your idea of what your child or grandchild should wear differs from that child’s opinion.\u00c2\u00a0 Selecting fabric, pattern, smocking design, etc. is so easy when\u00c2\u00a0 they are little, but … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,8,43,62,1],"tags":[939,940,803],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26513"}],"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=26513"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33612,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26513\/revisions\/33612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}