{"id":7734,"date":"2010-06-27T21:46:56","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T01:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=7734"},"modified":"2012-03-18T18:45:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-18T22:45:50","slug":"classic-baby-kimono","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/27\/classic-baby-kimono\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic Baby Kimono"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Cotton flannel kimono is cut from Sarah Howard Stone’s pattern.<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

Baby kimonos have been around forever but have been eclipsed in popularity by the one-piece sleeper.\u00c2\u00a0 But when Laurel was born, those knit sleepers were always second choice.\u00c2\u00a0 This kimono was in use every night that it was laundered and available.<\/p>\n

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\u00c2\u00a0The night time\u00c2\u00a0routine was for her father to get up, change her diaper, and then carry his baby girl to her mother to be nursed.\u00c2\u00a0 After one frustrating night spent trying to line up the snaps on the sleeper, my son discovered the 2-tie kimono and certified it as daddy-friendly baby nightwear.<\/p>\n

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Feather stitch is worked with floche.<\/p><\/div>\n

This kimono and Lezette Thomason’s Bunny’s Knit\u00c2\u00a0Nightie<\/em> (Children’s Corner patterns)\u00c2\u00a0were his bedtime garments of choice for Laurel.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0So, the kimono might be described as an old fashioned project for old fashioned Nanas.<\/p>\n

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The hemstitch holes are in flannel. The "reach" stitch is into lace tape.<\/p><\/div>\n

With a luscious flesh\/peachy colored cotton flannel, closely matched peach double sided\u00c2\u00a0ribbon,\u00c2\u00a0and a delicate but intricate 1\/4″ ecru lace edging, I was ready to begin.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Note:\u00c2\u00a0 With time, the ribbon has yellowed.\u00c2\u00a0 Oh well.<\/p>\n

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Lace tape zig zagged to baby lace is drawn up with the lace tape gathering thread to form the rosettes. French knots and lazy daisy stitches fill the centers.<\/p><\/div>\n

It took no time at all to realize that hemstitching would eat up most of that sweet little edging.\u00c2\u00a0 The bite of the wing needle into the flannel left a pleasing round hole.\u00c2\u00a0 But the bite into the lace left a few lace threads. My solution was to\u00c2\u00a0tiny zig zag\u00c2\u00a0the narrow lace to\u00c2\u00a0ecru lace tape and THEN pin stitch the joined pieces to the peach flannel.<\/p>\n

I had a lace rosette planned to cover the stitching which joined the ribbon ties to the gown.\u00c2\u00a0 Again, the narrow lace thwarted my plan. The drawn up lace looked like a wannbe pompom that would never be more than a baby’s breath bud.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Again, by joining the lace to lace tape, I got a satisfactory rosette.\u00c2\u00a0 The center was embellished with tiny French knots and lazy daisy leaves.<\/p>\n

At this point, I was relatively pleased with the results.\u00c2\u00a0 But Judith Dobson, my roommate at one of the schools where we both were teaching, said the kimono “cried out for feather stitching.”\u00c2\u00a0 She stitched the corners in ecru floche and instructed me on some of the finer points of feather stitch so I could finish.<\/p>\n

I did finish and then the kimono was finally finished.<\/p>\n

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Lace tape\/baby lace band is gathered at the neck before being pin stitched down.<\/p><\/div>\n

This garment has endured some very heavy laundering,\u00c2\u00a0 having been worn several times a week until Laurel outgrew it.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, she came into this world weighing 10 lbs. so the gown did not fit as long as it would have for a normal size baby.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, it\u00c2\u00a0endured a lot of wear and tear.<\/p>\n

Now it is packed away, folded and lying in wait for Rebecca’s advance-scheduled daughter.\u00c2\u00a0I hope that wait is not too long.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cotton flannel kimono is cut from Sarah Howard Stone’s pattern. Baby kimonos have been around forever but have been eclipsed in popularity by the one-piece sleeper.\u00c2\u00a0 But when Laurel was born, those knit sleepers were always second choice.\u00c2\u00a0 This kimono … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,25,28,5,40,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7734"}],"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=7734"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8179,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7734\/revisions\/8179"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}