{"id":4263,"date":"2009-11-21T00:28:13","date_gmt":"2009-11-21T05:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=4263"},"modified":"2017-06-27T03:03:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T07:03:56","slug":"mayflower-dress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/21\/mayflower-dress\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayflower Dress"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The dress fabric is a very pale peachy pink, but it just doesn’t show up in the photo.<\/p><\/div>\n

Everyone wants their sewing efforts to be put to good use. Holiday sewing poses a problem because the garment may be appropriate for a very short time.<\/p>\n

The Swiss embroidered edging appealed to me because when I first looked at it, I saw Columbus Day, 1492, with the Nina<\/em>, the Pinta<\/em> and the Santa Maria<\/em> all sailing toward the New World. When I looked again, I saw the Mayflower<\/em> with pilgrims sailing across the Atlantic Ocean in 1620. The next time I looked, I saw the pirate ship at Sea World. Hmmmmm….. a dress with this trim could be worn almost year round here in Florida.<\/p>\n

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In fact, when my granddaughter, Laurel, was two, she wore this dress to Sea World, later for Columbus Day and then again for Thanksgiving.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a particularly warm fall so the sleeveless cotton dress\u00c2\u00a0was\u00c2\u00a0comfortable. \u00c2\u00a0To me, that was enough bang for my sewing buck.<\/p>\n

I thought about using it for July 4th, alluding to the Boston Tea Party, but without red, white and blue, it seemed like too much of a stretch.<\/p>\n

The dress is made of 100% cotton, domestic combed batiste, one of my favorite fabrics. The Madeira appliqu\u00c3\u00a9 collar treatment mimics the ocean waves and is pin stitched with a wing needle and 80\/2 Madeira Cotona thread. After the peach batiste was appliqu\u00c3\u00a9d to the white collar, a row of machine made entredeux was stitched around the perimeter.<\/p>\n

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The Swiss embroidered edging was rolled whipped and gathered to fit the collar, then butted to the entredeux. The two pieces were joined with a fine zig zag. The final step was to apply a smaller Swiss edging to the center back to finish it off.<\/p>\n

The shaped hem is also pin stitched. I wish I had repeated the Madeira pattern at the collar rather than using standard scallops, but that is another too late good idea .\u00c2\u00a0 I debated adding some embroidery or some embellishment at the hem, but decided that none of the potential occasions for wearing it would justify too much fluffiness. So I stopped.<\/p>\n

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In general, my rule of thumb is that it is better to stop a little short than to overdue. Of course, this does not apply to sewing, shopping, eating, talking or a variety of my other favorite activities. Only embellishing.<\/p>\n

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