{"id":971,"date":"2009-09-01T00:59:24","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T04:59:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/?p=971"},"modified":"2014-12-15T20:45:41","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T01:45:41","slug":"t-bonnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/01\/t-bonnet\/","title":{"rendered":"T-Bonnet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Just before Laurel was born, I made this T bonnet for her.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Is\u00c2\u00a0there any sweeter sight than a baby in a bonnet?\u00c2\u00a0 And she did look absolutely precious in it.\u00c2\u00a0 Why I have no picture of her wearing it,\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t know.\u00c2\u00a0 I suppose I was so overcome with the emotion of holding my first grandchild that I missed many photo opportunities.<\/p>\n

Like so many of my projects,\u00c2\u00a0this T-bonnet\u00c2\u00a0incorporates two of\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0my favorite techniques, heirloom sewing and machine embroidery.\u00c2\u00a0A genuine\u00c2\u00a0classic, the T-bonnet\u00c2\u00a0is named for it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s shape rather than an occasion suitable for its wear.<\/p>\n

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It is obvious from my previous posts that I love feather stitching.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 And while the sewing side of many machines come with a built in feather stitch, turning the corner is very iffy business.<\/p>\n

Not only must you know exactly where in the stitch pattern to pivot, but also you must be at the precise\u00c2\u00a0location\u00c2\u00a0of the desired pivot when you reach that point.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 But I love the look of a zig zag feather stitch down the front of a yoke or a\u00c2\u00a0little boy’s dress shirt so I was motivated to figure out a way to do this more easily and more accurately.<\/p>\n

So I decided to try out the My Custom Stitch<\/em> feature on my Brother ULT 2003D sewing machine.\u00c2\u00a0 I thought if I could take the time to design a feather stitch with one turn, I could just repeat it for a zig zag pattern.\u00c2\u00a0 All top of the line Brother machines, beginning with the ULT series, has\u00c2\u00a0this feature which enables\u00c2\u00a0you to design your own decorative stitch.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m sure other machines have similar programs.\u00c2\u00a0 So I created one feather stitch pattern, one half of the diamond shown below, and then sewed it continuously, making a zig zag.<\/p>\n

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From there, creating a diamond was an easy next step.\u00c2\u00a0 So on this T-bonnet, I stitched one side of the zig zag feather and then went down the other side, matching centers.<\/p>\n

This must be stitched on heavily starched fabric (I used cotton batiste) with a very light weight stabilizer .\u00c2\u00a0 My favorite is the 3″ wide Stitch’nDitch.\u00c2\u00a0 Still, unless your tension is carefully adjusted, the joining points might not match up perfectly.<\/p>\n

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So I\u00c2\u00a0placed a machine embroidered flower over each of those intersections.\u00c2\u00a0 But if the match up is pretty good, you might choose to embroider a flower at alternate intersections.\u00c2\u00a0 The flower shown is from Fil Tire’ and Fancywork Elements, a collection by my\u00c2\u00a0good friend Suzanne Sawko and me.<\/p>\n

A T-bonnet is very versatile.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 It can be very tailored for a boy or very frilly for a girl.\u00c2\u00a0 Just make two sections of fabric, one 12 1\/2″ x 4″ to reach from ear lobe to ear lobe and another 6″ x 3″, to reach from the crown to the neck and embellish as you like.\u00c2\u00a0 Then add\u00c2\u00a0 ties, one on each finished corner.<\/p>\n

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Just before Laurel was born, I made this T bonnet for her.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0Is\u00c2\u00a0there any sweeter sight than a baby in a bonnet?\u00c2\u00a0 And she did look absolutely precious in it.\u00c2\u00a0 Why I have no picture of her wearing it,\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,8,28,5,38],"tags":[257,281,256,1062,1056,253,101],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971"}],"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=971"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32211,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971\/revisions\/32211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.janicefergusonsews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}