{"id":36110,"date":"2016-08-19T01:31:55","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T05:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=36110"},"modified":"2017-07-03T01:03:34","modified_gmt":"2017-07-03T05:03:34","slug":"finding-doryanother-fun-disney-dress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/19\/finding-doryanother-fun-disney-dress\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Dory~Another Fun Disney Dress"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My step-by-step tutorial for this dress is posted at Brother’s Stitching Sewcial<\/a> blog. Please take a look and leave a comment . I’d really appreciate your feedback.<\/p><\/div>\n

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It seems like forever since there has been a new post here, but My! Oh! My! have I been busy!\u00c2\u00a0 Highlights include time in NC with family, a week at home with 2 younger grands, including hurricane Vivian Rose (good news,\u00c2\u00a0 we have finally recovered. Whew!), several days of sewing with the two older grands and so much more. \u00c2\u00a0 It’s been a wonderful summer.<\/p>\n

But I’m back in the saddle now and have a really fun little project to share with you.\u00c2\u00a0 I do believe this sweet child’s dress would qualify for the “Modern Projects for Old Fashioned Nanas” category.\u00c2\u00a0 Don’t you?<\/p>\n

It started with this cute pattern<\/p>\n

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and the Finding Dory <\/a><\/em> machine embroidery designs at iBroidery.com.\u00c2\u00a0 The fabrics are a solid soft aqua Swiss cotton pique’ and a blue Disney Finding Dory<\/em> quilting cotton.<\/p>\n

This flexible curve ruler was used to draw the “waves” on the front panel.<\/p>\n

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By leaving the curve intact after the first wave was drawn, the following curves were identical.\u00c2\u00a0 What a useful tool this is.<\/p>\n

Like many of you readers, I tend to incorporate some of my favorite techniques in every project possible.\u00c2\u00a0 The mostly machine made yo-yo, detailed in the Stitching Sewcial blog<\/a>, is one I include again and again.\u00c2\u00a0 My\u00c2\u00a0 granddaughter has used the Clover yo-yo makers for those in her quilts.\u00c2\u00a0 But even the largest Clover maker was not large enough for the sun on the bodice of this frock.\u00c2\u00a0 So I resorted to using one of my Blue Willow bowls for a template.<\/p>\n

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This gave me a jumbo yo-yo sun.<\/p>\n

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The finished yo-yo was edged with an unusual trim that I always liked but sometimes wondered why I had purchased it years ago.\u00c2\u00a0 How could I have known that I would need rays for my yo-yo sun?\u00c2\u00a0 But isn’t it perfect for the sun rays? A big orange button covers the center hole, making a fairly convincing sun, at least if you are the little girl wearing the dress.<\/p>\n

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For those who have no access to the Finding Dory designs at ibroidery.com, other sealife designs could be used.\u00c2\u00a0 I just think this any little girl would like this cool, summer dress. What do you think?<\/p>\n

This is one of a few projects with which I am generally pleased.\u00c2\u00a0 Usually, after finishing I wish I had done several things differently.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s the old “woulda coulda shoulda” syndrome.\u00c2\u00a0 Do you ever do that?<\/p>\n

NANA FUN<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Seven year old Alastair just returned from 3 weeks at a fabulous\u00c2\u00a0 camp. \u00c2\u00a0 This is the very camp where my dear husband and I met as waterfront counselors many years ago.\u00c2\u00a0 Magical as it was when we were there so many years ago, it is even better now.\u00c2\u00a0 Activities include swimming, fishing, water skiing, sailing, and canoeing on beautiful Center Lake.\u00c2\u00a0 Every sport from tennis to soccer is on the agenda, along with arts and crafts, cooking and much, much more.<\/p>\n

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What an incredible experience it was for him! We all were a little worried that 3 weeks was too long for such a young camper.\u00c2\u00a0 But he was eager to go and is already signed up for the 4 week session next summer, though he would prefer the entire 7 weeks offered!<\/p>\n

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He looks like a happy camper to me.<\/p><\/div>\n

His mother, our Rebecca, shared Alastair’s only reservation about his time at camp:<\/p>\n

Well, I guess I didn’t always<\/strong> have a good time. <\/em>Why not? After the first few days I didn’t like Tribe time. I had to hide in my cabin. <\/em>Why? Well, it was something that kept happening that made me really uncomfortable. I didn’t know what to do about it. So I just hid in my bunk and pretended I wasn’t there. See, these girls who were like 10, 11, and 12, they would come looking for me and tell me I was soooooo cuuuuuute and that they wanted to do stuff with me, like go for walks and stuff, and I just didn’t know who they were or why they wanted to walk with me, and they came EVERY single day.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/em><\/div>\n
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I asked if the other boys had this same problem. No. None. Well, that’s not true! Matt! Matt had it way, way worse. <\/em>How so? Well, see, Matt is an older boy and all the girls liked him, and they never<\/strong> left him alone!\u00c2\u00a0 He was always hounded by them. I felt real bad for Matt. But I don’t know, he might have liked it a little bit. <\/em><\/div>\n
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Of course,\u00c2\u00a0 we expect there will come a summer when Alastair,\u00c2\u00a0 like Matt, might like that attention a little bit.\u00c2\u00a0 But not now, thank you very much.<\/div>\n

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