{"id":29960,"date":"2014-04-12T15:35:47","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T19:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=29960"},"modified":"2014-07-23T00:33:13","modified_gmt":"2014-07-23T04:33:13","slug":"babys-easter-dress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/12\/babys-easter-dress\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby’s Easter Dress"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Vivian Rose’s white Easter dress with pink slip<\/p><\/div>\n

UPDATE:\u00c2\u00a0 Finally I have a photo of Vivian Rose in her Easter dress.<\/p>\n

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NOTE:\u00c2\u00a0 Please excuse the poor quality of these photos. They were taken midday, making it nearly impossible to get a shot without shadows.\u00c2\u00a0 The breeze was blowing and the dress kept moving.\u00c2\u00a0 And photography is not my strong suit.<\/em><\/p>\n

Are you all busy with Easter sewing?\u00c2\u00a0 Busy, busy, busy has been the status around here for some time and it’s not been all about sewing.\u00c2\u00a0 With Aunt Rheeta’s visit,\u00c2\u00a0 Rebecca’s 3-day visit with Alastair and Vivian Rose,\u00c2\u00a0 and sleepovers with our other two grandchildren, progress on Easter outfits is way behind schedule.\u00c2\u00a0 But I loved every minute of these visits and have no regrets.<\/p>\n

During that time, however, I did manage to make some progress on\u00c2\u00a0 Vivian Rose’s holiday finery and now that things have quieted down, I\u00c2\u00a0 have just finished her dress and slip.<\/p>\n

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The high yoke dress is made of white Swiss batiste (Nelona)\u00c2\u00a0 while the slip is made of pink Imperial.\u00c2\u00a0 Since I first saw Martha Pullen’s first heirloom sewing book which showed a white Heirloom Party Dress with a colored slip peeking through,\u00c2\u00a0 I have loved the look of subtle color.<\/p>\n

When granddaughter Laurel was 6, her white batiste Easter dress<\/a> featured a yellow slip, showing color just like lemon meringue pie. \u00c2\u00a0 Two years later, her white Judith Dobson Tea Dress<\/a> was highlighted with a blue slip.<\/p>\n

The fancyband includes squares of shadow work pink bows, cut from yardage of a Swiss handloom.<\/p>\n

Alternating with lace insertion and fancy entredeux, the bows are the focus of the fancyband.<\/p>\n

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Matching pink bow edging serves as the yoke overlay.<\/p>\n

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The beauty of these shadow work bows never fails to make me sigh.\u00c2\u00a0 In pink, blue and white, I’ve collected and then hoarded the yardage since I\u00c2\u00a0 first laid eyes on the bows.\u00c2\u00a0 If I never use them up, just handling and gazing at them have given me years and years of pleasure.<\/p>\n

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I can’t help but wonder just how the authentic shadow work stitches were done.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 A look at the back of the blue bows might make you wonder as well.<\/p>\n

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When I happened upon these pieces in my handloom stash my mind wandered back to the first bow dress I made which was for 5 year old Rebecca.<\/p>\n

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A second identical dress was made for 8 year old Joanna Pullen and a third, done in blue<\/a>, was commissioned by a friend.<\/p>\n

Mimicking this dress for Rebecca’s baby girl pleased me.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Vivian Rose is too small to carry all the details of the pattern so her dress is scaled down.\u00c2\u00a0 Her’s has a yoke overlay instead of fancyband, gathered edging at the hemline instead of \u00c2\u00a0 a flounce, binding at the sleeve instead of beading and wide, circular lace.<\/p>\n

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The sleeves are bound with a layer of pink fabric beneath the white batiste to shadow through.\u00c2\u00a0 They were inserted with the same fancy entredeux as that used in the fancyband.<\/p>\n

Working on the dress piecemeal fashion in every scarce <\/em>free moment, I recalled Elizabeth Travis Johnson’s directive.\u00c2\u00a0 I needed to add something pretty to the back.\u00c2\u00a0 It lo0ked pretty plain.\u00c2\u00a0 But I thought of stitching a matching shadow work bow only after the lined yoke was attached to the skirt.<\/p>\n

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I simply scanned one of the bows, traced the outline then reduced it by 10% on my copier.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Working from the front of the fabric was a challenge as I tried to keep the stitches on the surface and between the two layers of batiste without penetrating the lining.\u00c2\u00a0 But the bow is small\u00c2\u00a0 and worked up quickly.<\/p>\n

The pink slip was another project and will be detailed with some helpful hints in my next post.\u00c2\u00a0 Meanwhile, I’ll be back in the sewing room working outfits for\u00c2\u00a0 other grandchildren.<\/p>\n

So how are your Easter projects coming along?<\/p>\n

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I love vintage cards. Doesn’t this little dress look like it’s smocked?<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UPDATE:\u00c2\u00a0 Finally I have a photo of Vivian Rose in her Easter dress.   NOTE:\u00c2\u00a0 Please excuse the poor quality of these photos. They were taken midday, making it nearly impossible to get a shot without shadows.\u00c2\u00a0 The breeze was … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":29984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,5,18,71,1],"tags":[130,1056,131,132,133],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29960"}],"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=29960"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30889,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29960\/revisions\/30889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}