{"id":9134,"date":"2010-10-05T21:28:56","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T01:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=9134"},"modified":"2016-08-17T00:04:43","modified_gmt":"2016-08-17T04:04:43","slug":"picture-lace-pinafore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/05\/picture-lace-pinafore\/","title":{"rendered":"Picture Lace Pinafore"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Finding this dress and pinafore made me so happy.\u00c2\u00a0 I had long since thought the fall Liberty print dropped yoke dress was lost.\u00c2\u00a0 As it turns out, I had forgotten that my friend Suzanne Sawko had made another pinafore to go over the dress for a Sew Beautiful<\/em> photo shoot some time ago.\u00c2\u00a0 Both garments were recently retrieved from the bottom of my antique blanket chest where specially sewn items are stored.<\/p>\n

The dress was originally made to go under the Little Fawn Pinafore.<\/a><\/p>\n

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The picture lace pinafore shown above is made of a\u00c2\u00a0medium weight champagne Swiss batiste and edged with ivory lace tape and antique picture lace or AEsop’s Fables lace.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s unique characteristics include the colored cordonnet that outlines a figure and is worked into the lace edge.\u00c2\u00a0 It is an antique Binche lace, made some\u00c2\u00a0 time prior to 1926, though the exact year is unknown.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

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This particular pattern illustrates The Fox and the Pheasant <\/em>fable.\u00c2\u00a0 The Nile green cordonnet in the lace coordinates well with the green in the Liberty print.\u00c2\u00a0 Embroidery floss in the same color was woven through the hemstitching holes on the shoulder ruffles and peripheral holes of the machine made needle entredeux on\u00c2\u00a0 the bodice front.<\/p>\n

Instead of\u00c2\u00a0a wing needle, Suzanne used a 100 sharp.\u00c2\u00a0 This made a smaller hole, both in the center of the pattern and for the\u00c2\u00a0surrounding penetrations.<\/p>\n

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The pinafore pattern is Suzanne’s own creation–a combination of heirloom patterns and her own adaptations and additions.\u00c2\u00a0 I especially like the way the bodice front is lined on either side but not in the middle.\u00c2\u00a0The embellished machine made entredeux secured the partial lining.\u00c2\u00a0 The single layer center front allows the Liberty print to shadow through.<\/p>\n

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At them hem is a deep growth tuck.\u00c2\u00a0 This also adds interest to the plain skirt.<\/p>\n

As has happened with so many other classic garments made many years ago, these two garments will be worn by another generation.\u00c2\u00a0 Laurel Cade will wear the dress under both pinafores and\u00c2\u00a0Suzanne’s older granddaughter Alee will wear it as soon as she grows into it.<\/p>\n

It has been said that heirloom clothing is expensive.\u00c2\u00a0 But how many other\u00c2\u00a0genres of clothing\u00c2\u00a0are not only stylish but in\u00c2\u00a0excellent condition 25 years after they were made?\u00c2\u00a0 I’m sure this will\u00c2\u00a0last through little Laurel Cade, Alee and perhaps even a few more\u00c2\u00a0size 6\u00c2\u00a0granddaughters.<\/p>\n

Don’t you just love classic\u00c2\u00a0children’s clothing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Finding this dress and pinafore made me so happy.\u00c2\u00a0 I had long since thought the fall Liberty print dropped yoke dress was lost.\u00c2\u00a0 As it turns out, I had forgotten that my friend Suzanne Sawko had made another pinafore … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[39,41,4,8,28,40,38],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9134"}],"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=9134"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36108,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9134\/revisions\/36108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}