{"id":4624,"date":"2011-11-29T23:59:25","date_gmt":"2011-11-30T04:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=4624"},"modified":"2011-12-01T14:52:36","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T19:52:36","slug":"embellished-ralph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/29\/embellished-ralph\/","title":{"rendered":"Embellished Ralph~White Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/EmbellishedRalphL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4974\" title=\"EmbellishedRalphL\" src=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/EmbellishedRalphL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"368\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/EmbellishedRalphL.jpg 368w, http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/EmbellishedRalphL-223x300.jpg 223w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 368px) 100vw, 368px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are so many wonderful opportunities for children to wear their holiday outfits, from the hometown Christmas parade to Santa\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lap pictures to church services and Christmas dinner.\u00c2\u00a0 Some of these events are casual while others require more formal wear. Given enough time, I like to make seasonal garments for my grandchildren to meet more than one of these occasions.<\/p>\n<p>We all know the time saving benefits of starting with ready made fleece or tee shirts. But when I found this monotone smocked Ralph Lauren dress, marked down by 75%, I began to look at ready-to-wear with a broader view. I knew that with the addition of a little red and green hand embroidery, it would make a great Christmas dress for my 5 year old granddaughter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/embellishedRalphsmocking.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-4626\" title=\"embellishedRalphsmocking\" src=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/embellishedRalphsmocking-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/embellishedRalphsmocking-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/embellishedRalphsmocking-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/embellishedRalphsmocking.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Personally, I love tone-on-tone embroidery. But the ivory smocking, ivory silk ribbon embroidery and ivory bullions were just lost on this little ivory dress. Unless you viewed the child at her eye level, you would probably not even notice that the dress was smocked.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>It took very little time to add red French knots to the centers of the ivory bullion\u00c2\u00a0rings\u00c2\u00a0and green straight stitches\u00c2\u00a0on the silk ribbon stitches. Laurel will look\u00c2\u00a0as sweet as the Sugarplum Fairy when she wears this to The Nutcracker next week.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=4953&amp;action=edit&amp;message=1\">brown Viyella plaid yoke dress and ivory linen Current Critters bib<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 that I am working on (see earlier <a title=\"Lemonade\" href=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/25\/lemonade\/\"><em>Lemonade<\/em><\/a> post) are much better suited for riding her new scooter down the street Christmas Day at her Aunt Rebecca\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s house.<\/p>\n<p>Have you embellished any great ready-to-wear? Please tell me about it.<\/p>\n<p>This is my post for <a href=\"http:\/\/fadedcharmcottage.blogspot.com\">White Wednesday<\/a> at Faded Charm.\u00c2\u00a0 Check out the other white posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are so many wonderful opportunities for children to wear their holiday outfits, from the hometown Christmas parade to Santa\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lap pictures to church services and Christmas dinner.\u00c2\u00a0 Some of these events are casual while others require more formal wear. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/29\/embellished-ralph\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,25,24,64],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4624"}],"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=4624"}],"version-history":[{"count":47,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19795,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4624\/revisions\/19795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}