{"id":349,"date":"2009-06-26T21:16:24","date_gmt":"2009-06-27T04:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/?p=349"},"modified":"2009-07-01T10:43:37","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T17:43:37","slug":"blue-vines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/2009\/06\/26\/blue-vines\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Vines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve really enjoyed getting back into sewing. I got inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/2009\/06\/12\/antidote\/\">those batiks<\/a> and dug into my stash as well &#8211; turns out I have enough fabric and ideas to last a while!<\/p>\n<p>For this dress, I had to alter the pattern quite a bit. I had sewed a few dresses with it years ago, like in the early &#8220;aughts&#8221; (or is that &#8220;naughts&#8221; ?). The fact is those ones don&#8217;t fit me anymore so I traced the pieces onto new tissue paper and added a quarter inch there and half an inch there, to add up to an inch or so bigger all told. Before cutting into the unique (and more pricey) batiks I decided to do a &#8220;test dress&#8221; out of this blue viney fabric I had in my stash. It was the perfect yardage.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 333px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/15197746@N03\/3676837591\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Blue Vine Dress\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2541\/3676837591_1a88220e63.jpg\" alt=\"Cool as a blue cucumber in %100 cotton.\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adapted from Butterick 6333 (1999)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I&#8217;m very happy with how this came out. It will be nice to have a cool cotton dress to wear when it&#8217;s hot this summer. Next project: batik version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve really enjoyed getting back into sewing. I got inspired by those batiks and dug into my stash as well <span class=\"more-text\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":351,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions\/351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sparkledesign.net\/fidget\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}