{"id":28770,"date":"2013-12-22T15:34:57","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T20:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=28770"},"modified":"2013-12-31T01:03:14","modified_gmt":"2013-12-31T06:03:14","slug":"gingerbread-christmas-dress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/22\/gingerbread-christmas-dress\/","title":{"rendered":"Gingerbread Christmas Dress"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Vivian Rose’s first Christmas dress has a gingerbread theme.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 With a long standing family tradition of making holiday gingerbread houses, I knew her mother would like it.\u00c2\u00a0 Her brother sported gingerbread in his first Christmas outfit<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 This is important because Baby Girl doesn’t care one way or another.<\/p>\n

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trying to climb down off her father’s lap at her brother’s Christmas program<\/p><\/div>\n

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It was first worn for Big Brother Alastair’s Christmas program.\u00c2\u00a0 She would have looked better with her long sleeve white shirt with a lettuce leaf finish at the cuffs and collar, but it was a very warm day, too warm for long sleeves.\u00c2\u00a0 Ahhh,\u00c2\u00a0 the joy of winter in Florida!<\/p>\n

A big hairbow would have been a nice accessory, but this little girl will tolerate no headgear of any type. We’re going to have to work on that.\u00c2\u00a0 I sigh when I think about all the sweet bonnets that she has never worn.<\/p>\n

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I LOVE these tights–bought them in early October when Cracker Barrel first put out their Christmas merchandise. \u00c2\u00a0 I’m pretty sure these are a standard issue part of uniforms worn in Santa’s workshop.\u00c2\u00a0 Vivian Rose is 11 months old, running like the Energizer Bunny and\u00c2\u00a0 busy, busy, busy, just like a little elf.\u00c2\u00a0 The dress suits her.<\/p>\n

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The pattern is my go-to quick and easy A-line jumper from Applique, Martha’s Favorites<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 The garment is a blank canvas to embellish in any way you like.<\/p>\n

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The applique’d gingerbread girl <\/a>with peppermint is a design from Dakota Collectibles. \u00c2\u00a0<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0 The buttons, hair bow and monogram were added.\u00c2\u00a0 Featherwale corduroy is lined with the same red and white stripe fabric that was used on her Christmas stocking<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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So now I’m off to finish some last minute Christmas sewing and wrapping. \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I wish you all a very merry Christmas.<\/p>\n

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With Elizabeth Travis Johnson’s exhortation ringing in my ears, “include something pretty on the back,” a smaller gingerbread girl was appliqued on the back.<\/p>\n

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The path was drawn freehand and paved with a 1\/4″\u00c2\u00a0 trim, stitched in place with monofilament thread.<\/p>\n

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In lieu of piping, a line of triple stitching as worked along all outer edges.\u00c2\u00a0 The gingerbread buttons, like everything else used for this dress, were in my stash.\u00c2\u00a0 I am\u00c2\u00a0 really proud of myself for making two Christmas outfits without making a single purchase.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, there is that huge box that just arrived from Martha Pullen’s last BIG sale.\u00c2\u00a0 But I’m not going to think about that.<\/p>\n

This is my last grandchild Christmas outfit for ’13.\u00c2\u00a0 Nine year old Laurel’s dress is done, and eight year old Robert Charles has a new store-bought dress suit.\u00c2\u00a0 I had planned to make Alastair a matching green corduroy vest, but found this cute outfit (yes, at Cracker Barrel) and decided that he would like this best.<\/p>\n

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The Dalmation on the red sweater vest coordinates with the black corduroy pants which are embroidered with scattered little 1″ fire engines. Alastair is cute, cute, cute.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Vivian Rose’s first Christmas dress has a gingerbread theme.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 With a long standing family tradition of making holiday gingerbread houses, I knew her mother would like it.\u00c2\u00a0 Her brother sported gingerbread in his first Christmas outfit.\u00c2\u00a0 This is important … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":28777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,43,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28770"}],"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=28770"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28886,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28770\/revisions\/28886"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}