{"id":5992,"date":"2012-06-26T05:45:25","date_gmt":"2012-06-26T09:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=5992"},"modified":"2015-01-21T21:34:07","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T02:34:07","slug":"daygown-in-waiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/26\/daygown-in-waiting\/","title":{"rendered":"Daygown in Waiting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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More than this daygown is in waiting.\u00c2\u00a0 My daughter and her husband are expecting their second child and I can hardly wait to find out the baby’s gender.\u00c2\u00a0 We will be delighted with a baby boy or girl, but I desperately want to know which it is!<\/p>\n

When Rebecca was pregnant with her first, Alastair who is now 3, I sent her a package every Monday to help tick the weeks off.\u00c2\u00a0 Sometimes it was a complete outfit, like this daygown and bonnet, and other times it was just a bib.\u00c2\u00a0 But every week something was sent.<\/p>\n

It’s a very long story about how Alastair was expected to be a girl, but that’s why there were so many pink and frilly gifts sent and which now lie in waiting.\u00c2\u00a0 So this\u00c2\u00a0 time, I am waiting for confirmation of gender before I begin any pink or blue projects.\u00c2\u00a0 That news may come as early as next week.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, we are tied up with our other two grandchildren, six year old Robert and 8 year old Laurel who are spending the week with us.\u00c2\u00a0 They are attending Vacation Bible School at our church and it will be a hectic week.<\/p>\n

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So until I finish and can show you the cute little French dress (see Lulu in Paris<\/em><\/a> designs) I’m working on, I hope this re-run of the Daygown in Waiting<\/em> will serve to notify you that I am still alive and kicking and blogging.<\/p>\n

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If my grandson Alastair had been a girl baby, this\u00c2\u00a0 smocked gown and bonnet would have been retired, awaiting the next little girl in the family.\u00c2\u00a0 Instead, it has been packed away, in hopes that someday he will have a baby sister to wear it.<\/p>\n

I love making daygowns.\u00c2\u00a0 From the number of patterns and magazine photo\u00c2\u00a0layouts featuring baby clothes, I guess I am not alone.\u00c2\u00a0 The bishop construction is so easy that if the gown were simply smocked and pressed, it could be considered a quick and easy project.\u00c2\u00a0 But few heirloom\/smocking enthusiasts are able to stop themselves from adding more.I\u00c2\u00a0know I have never had that much restraint.<\/p>\n

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The smocking plate is Christina<\/em> by\u00c2\u00a0 Ellen McCarn.<\/p>\n

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The sleeves were smocked with a variation of the pattern, edged with lace, a strand of green floche woven through the holes at the base of the lace.<\/p>\n

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Following this blog’s purported philosophy, “modern projects for old fashioned Nanas,”\u00c2\u00a0 the gown is made of easy care\u00c2\u00a0 Imperial batiste, though my sewing room is heavily stocked with\u00c2\u00a0 Swiss in every pastel.\u00c2\u00a0 Turning my back on the Swiss is a painful creative compromise.<\/p>\n

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The front features a piece of purchased hand embroidery with bullions and satin stitch dots.\u00c2\u00a0 The first five dots were removed and replaced with buttonholes.\u00c2\u00a0 The embroidered strip is bordered with entredeux, insertion and edging.\u00c2\u00a0 The entredeux is threaded with perle cotton and the tiny\u00c2\u00a0 row of holes at the base of the edging is threaded with green floche, just like the sleeves.<\/p>\n

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The bonnet pattern is by Little Elegance<\/em>, now out of print.\u00c2\u00a0 I like the fitted back and the crown, which can be self fabric.<\/p>\n

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I have used a tatted medallion. \u00c2\u00a0 In order to make this substitution, the raw edge has been rolled, whipped and gathered.\u00c2\u00a0 I marked off quarters of the circle before beginning and then joined the medallion by hand.\u00c2\u00a0 Had I planned more carefully, I would have used tatting on the gown and bonnet instead of the lace.<\/p>\n

With three grandchildren to sew and smock for, it seems foolish to spend time to make daygowns for babies who are no more than a twinkle in their daddy’s eyes.\u00c2\u00a0 But these are like potato chips.\u00c2\u00a0 You always want more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

More than this daygown is in waiting.\u00c2\u00a0 My daughter and her husband are expecting their second child and I can hardly wait to find out the baby’s gender.\u00c2\u00a0 We will be delighted with a baby boy or girl, but I … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":20257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,5,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5992"}],"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=5992"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33477,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5992\/revisions\/33477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}