{"id":5752,"date":"2010-02-23T01:00:44","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T06:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=5752"},"modified":"2012-08-28T12:09:45","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T16:09:45","slug":"friendship-offerings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/23\/friendship-offerings\/","title":{"rendered":"Friendship Offerings"},"content":{"rendered":"

“All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.”<\/em><\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0 Lord Byron
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This quotes really\u00c2\u00a0speaks to \u00c2\u00a0the\u00c2\u00a0history of my 20 year friendship with Suzanne. She has always shared her joys and mine with equal enthusiasm .\u00c2\u00a0 Of\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0course, there were the occasional shared sorrows, but\u00c2\u00a0our charmed lives have\u00c2\u00a0seen\u00c2\u00a0precious little of that. \u00c2\u00a0So when her son\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first child was on his way, we shared her joy.<\/p>\n

For someone who sews, happiness is often expressed in\u00c2\u00a0a needlework project. With a daughter-in-law who loves all things heirloom, Suzanne knew\u00c2\u00a0this baby’s mother\u00c2\u00a0would appreciate a monogrammed smocked outfit. I got started right away.<\/p>\n

Again, I used one of the ready-to-smock bubbles and smocked it with Ellen McCarn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s monogram leaflet. One of the best features of this design is that the height of the letters can be adjusted to almost any size. The 3-month bubbles have only 6 pleating threads, so that requires a short design.<\/p>\n

Just as it is wise to match ribbon to embroidery floss before beginning a project with ribbon, I always match up DMC cotton thread with the floss used for smocking. Either 50 wt. or my treasured and no longer available, 30 wt. thread in a matching color offers you opportunities to embellish, even if that is not in your original plan.<\/p>\n

For this bubble, the straight stitches on the sleeve hem were removed and replaced with a L.4 straight stitch.\u00c2\u00a0 Blue floss was then whipped over each stitch.\u00c2\u00a0 This same\u00c2\u00a0embellishment was repeated on the collar. The “utility” plastic buttons were replaced with mother-of pearl, sewn in place with blue DMC thread matching the embroidery floss.<\/p>\n

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Swiss flannel, one of my all time favorite fabrics, was used for the blanket. The antique carriage design was digitized by Suzanne and appears in several earlier posts, as well as in Creative Needle\u00c2\u00a0 <\/em>magazine and on one of the cd collections we did together, Fil Tire\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and Fancywork Elements<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The edging is another favorite of mine, an English lace I call The Chameleon available in The Store<\/strong><\/em>).\u00c2\u00a0 It is a tiny galoon, with slightly scalloped edges on either side.\u00c2\u00a0 However, it serves beautifully as an insertion or an edging.\u00c2\u00a0 With the holes running parallel to the edges, it looks like entredeux, but with a finished\u00c2\u00a0edge.\u00c2\u00a0 It is especially nice for boys because it is so tailored.<\/p>\n

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Making these two items for Suzanne\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s grandson was not a big thing, but as this anonymous quote says, “Friendship isn’t a big thing – it’s a million little things. “<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.”\u00c2\u00a0 Lord Byron This quotes really\u00c2\u00a0speaks to \u00c2\u00a0the\u00c2\u00a0history of my 20 year friendship with Suzanne. She has always shared her joys and mine with equal enthusiasm .\u00c2\u00a0 Of\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0course, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28,5,18,27,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5752"}],"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=5752"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24301,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5752\/revisions\/24301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}