{"id":5741,"date":"2010-02-22T00:27:30","date_gmt":"2010-02-22T05:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=5741"},"modified":"2012-04-12T22:33:28","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T02:33:28","slug":"sewing-nana-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/22\/sewing-nana-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"“Sewing Nana” Challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the eyes of the world, and especially those of your children, if you can sew, you can sew ANYTHING! So asking for a set of baby earmuffs to muffle the sound in a small airplane is pretty much the same as asking for an embroidered tee shirt. I guess that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s how my darling son thought of it.<\/p>\n

He and his wife were flying to their North Carolina log cabin in his Piper Comanche twin engine plane. Headsets are worn by the pilot and the passengers to drown out the very loud engine sounds as well as to\u00c2\u00a0allow conversation between passengers and pilot. Laurel was just 3 months old so the adult headsets would fit her about as well as Abraham Lincoln\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s stovepipe hat. And yet, it seemed\u00c2\u00a0 she should have something to muffle the noise.<\/p>\n

No problem!\u00c2\u00a0Her Nana\u00c2\u00a0can sew! Knowing that I would want to protect Laurel\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hearing and keep her as comfortable as possible,\u00c2\u00a0my son\u00c2\u00a0asked me to whip up some soundproofing earmuffs for her.<\/p>\n

Now that was a challenge, equal to the cataract Halloween costume my friend,\u00c2\u00a0an opthamologist\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wife, asked me to make for her. But that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s another story.<\/p>\n

For the earmuffs, I began with iced tea jar lids. They were just about the right size and, when stuffed with some soundproofing material I was able to lay hands on, did significantly reduce the sound of my kitchen radio turned to highest volume. Now what?<\/p>\n

Killington flannel, no longer available but one of my all-time favorite fabrics, is a\u00c2\u00a0heavy but very soft cotton fabric. I cut a circle large enough to cover\u00c2\u00a0the ice tea lids and embroidered an airplane in the center of each.\u00c2\u00a0 The plane tail numbers were included as a special touch.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0It was sewn to a gingham circle and turned like a pillow, with the soundproofing material trapped inside.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 1\/4″ elastic was threaded through a gingham casing that ran from earmuff to earmuff, made adjustable by tying a ribbon around the excess, like little BamBam Flintstone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hair style.\u00c2\u00a0Gingham ties under the chin held the earmuffs in place. Laurel was ready to board the plane!<\/p>\n

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When\u00c2\u00a0she was born, my son was working as a certified\u00c2\u00a0flight instructor, teaching both fixed wing (that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an airplane, I learned) and rotary something (that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a helicopter), as well as doing charter flights. He wanted to show off his newborn daughter to his friends at the FBO (Flight Based Operations, which is not the airport but usually located at the airport). I thought she should be appropriately dressed, so this is what she wore.<\/p>\n

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Ryan was so pleased–not surprised, but lovingly appreciative that I had come through for him with the earmuffs and onesie. After a few moments of being admired, or at least acknowledged, by the other pilots, Laurel seemed completely unimpressed. In fact, she seemed disappointed in their lack of admiration. She\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all girl, from day 1.<\/p>\n

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