{"id":3907,"date":"2009-11-14T00:38:37","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T05:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=3907"},"modified":"2011-05-14T01:25:59","modified_gmt":"2011-05-14T05:25:59","slug":"sleepy-moon-cat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/14\/sleepy-moon-cat\/","title":{"rendered":"Sleepy Mooncat"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Just today I sent this sleeper off for Alastair. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really nothing special, but the truth of the matter is, not everything we sew is. Sometimes, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just\u00c2\u00a0 what I call utility sewing,\u00c2\u00a0a mere notch above mending on the sewing fun chart. But even utility sewing is always\u00c2\u00a0done with love.<\/p>\n

Alastair has outgrown most of his sleepers and I had this blank one in my overflowing drawer of Things to Embroider Someday. So yesterday seemed to be the day.<\/p>\n

The design itself is from Anita Goodesign\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very sweet Baby Lullaby<\/em> collection. The designs are beautifully shown in muted beige and blue, plaids and prints. But Alastair\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mother really likes bright colors and has declared, since before he was born, that babies do too. So bright it is for this little boy.\"sleepymoonscan\"<\/a><\/p>\n

His\u00c2\u00a0family includes two cats, neither of whom spends any discretionary time with Alastair. Cats run really fast, and babies crawl relatively slowly. So I thought he might like the idea of a captive, slumbering cat on his sleeper.<\/p>\n

I would really like to do some fun, “special” sewing this weekend. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve finished mending a pair of my pilot son\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pants–he frequently rips out the crotch when he climbs up onto the wing of\u00c2\u00a0 his airplane. Then I mended the hole in my husband\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s jacket pocket. A young friend has started his own home maintenance company so I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve embroidered two shirts for him with his new company name. Laurel’s Snow White dress (earlier altered from a size 8 to a size 3) had to be lengthened and let out to a size 5 for a Renaissance Fair. My daughter-in-law has asked me to alter her new dress, so that\u00c2\u00a0sits atop\u00c2\u00a0my to-do stack.<\/p>\n

Those matching Thanksgiving outfits for all three grandchildren are crying to be sewn up. But with a crowd coming to watch the Gator\/SC Gamecock football game today, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s looking unlikely that I will meet my earlier goal to finish the Turkey Day set by Monday.<\/p>\n

For football fans, there is comfort in knowing that there is always next year. For sewing fans–or fanatics–there is always next week. I may be looking at some very long nights for the next two weeks. But I don’t\u00c2\u00a0begrudge or regret the time spent on\u00c2\u00a0utility sewing.\u00c2\u00a0 I am grateful every day and every night for all the loved ones I have to sew for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Just today I sent this sleeper off for Alastair. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s really nothing special, but the truth of the matter is, not everything we sew is. Sometimes, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just\u00c2\u00a0 what I call utility sewing,\u00c2\u00a0a mere notch above mending on the sewing … 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":[35,5,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907"}],"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=3907"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13370,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3907\/revisions\/13370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}