{"id":37985,"date":"2018-07-02T00:52:34","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T04:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=37985"},"modified":"2024-09-11T19:43:56","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T23:43:56","slug":"wrapped-in-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/02\/wrapped-in-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrapped in Love"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Swiss flannel with pinstitch joining lace to fabric. Pinstitch is woven with pink perle cotton.<\/p><\/div>\n

I can’t seem to stop thinking about Beatrice. She is the soon-to-be-born, soon-to-be-adopted baby girl whose waiting parents are active members of our church. So I sew. When she is in their arms, she will be wrapped in love, with or without this shawl.<\/p>\n

Soft, luxurious Swiss flannel is perfect for any baby. Especially here in Florida where winters are usually moderate, a tiny one dressed in this fabric can go out on the town without being bundled in a parka. The blanket coordinates with a bonnet<\/a> and smocked daygown<\/a> featured in earlier posts. I hope to duplicate them for Baby Beatrice.<\/p>\n

Pinstitch and Swiss flannel go together like peas and carrots. The holes were perfectly clear and clean, as always, but were woven with perle cotton because I wanted a little more color near the perimeter.<\/p>\n

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The lace edging is my favorite blanket trim as it can withstand heavy laundering and still flaunts its heirloom ancestry.<\/p>\n

Six inches from the lace is a zig zag feather stitch frame, interspersed with embroidery. That stitch is worked in soft green, but I was unable to get a good scan of it. It shows up clearly in this photo from another project. With 30 wt. cotton thread, it works up nicely.<\/p>\n

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This stitch is one I designed several years ago in Brother’s exclusive My Custom Stitch<\/a> feature. If you have a Brother machine which includes MCS, I would be happy to share it with you. Just leave your request at the end of this post.<\/p>\n

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Except for the “C” monogram, the embroidery was all digitized by my talented friend Suzanne Sawko. The monogram is from Nivia’s Monogram Set<\/em>, which seems to be unavailable commercially. Ooooh! I found it on eBay just now, though the seller is away until July 6. Check it out here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I am very fortunate to have each of her collections in my library and highly recommend them. The designs are used frequently.<\/p>\n

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Nivia’s “C” monogram nestles perfectly in Suzanne Sawko’s Heart Swag.<\/p><\/div>\n

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This is the same photo edited for a sharper image. This does NOT show the colors accurately.<\/p><\/div>\n

And that’s another one for THE Baby! At least one more to come.<\/p>\n

Don’t you just love to sew for babies?<\/p>\n

P.S. Required standard disclosure: I am a paid sewing consultant for Brother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can’t seem to stop thinking about Beatrice. She is the soon-to-be-born, soon-to-be-adopted baby girl whose waiting parents are active members of our church. So I sew. When she is in their arms, she will be wrapped in love, with … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":37995,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,76,28,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37985"}],"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=37985"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42287,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37985\/revisions\/42287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}