{"id":4376,"date":"2009-11-25T00:03:08","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T05:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=4376"},"modified":"2015-01-09T21:34:11","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T02:34:11","slug":"lemonade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/25\/lemonade\/","title":{"rendered":"Lemonade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/lemonadewholeBrite.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33015\" src=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/lemonadewholeBrite.jpg\" alt=\"lemonade whole\" width=\"444\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/lemonadewholeBrite.jpg 444w, http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/lemonadewholeBrite-208x300.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 444px) 100vw, 444px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very rewarding to face a design challenge and come away satisfied. I had almost completed three matching Thanksgiving outfits for my grandchildren using this brown plaid Viyella.\u00c2\u00a0 They were to be worn at a huge gathering of extended family.<\/p>\n<p>Then my son\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plans changed. He and his family, including two of the three grandchildren, would not be joining us for dinner. Even\u00c2\u00a0 though I knew this was far short of a disaster, I was, nonetheless, disappointed. As mentioned in the previous post, since I had lemons I would make lemonade.<\/p>\n<p>Our daughter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s family would be there with 8 month old Alastair. He, at least, would be decked out in his brown plaid Jon-Jon and button-on turkey bib. But his cousin Robert\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s matching set and cousin Laurel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dress needed another purpose for another day.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>While brown plaid is not exactly a Christmas standard, I decided to try to make it work. It was a real stretch but I am pleased with the results. All that is needed now is to make a new bib for Robert and to finish Laurel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Children\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Corner<em> Patty<\/em>. This classic pleated dress also has a button-on bib.<\/p>\n<p>I still plan to finish the Christmas outfits I had planned. But for now, I am happy to know that the beautiful Viyella plaid will be worn to some of the many holiday festivities.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/lemonadecloseBrite1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33016\" src=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/lemonadecloseBrite1.jpg\" alt=\"lemonadecloseBrite\" width=\"640\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/lemonadecloseBrite1.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/lemonadecloseBrite1-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The embroidery design for Alastair\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bib is from Bernina\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <em>Current Critters Continued<\/em> collection. The critters are perfectly charming and the colors of their fur made it possible to take brown plaid into the Christmas season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very rewarding to face a design challenge and come away satisfied. I had almost completed three matching Thanksgiving outfits for my grandchildren using this brown plaid Viyella.\u00c2\u00a0 They were to be worn at a huge gathering of extended family. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/25\/lemonade\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":14331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,43,18],"tags":[636,635],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376"}],"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=4376"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33017,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376\/revisions\/33017"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}