{"id":994,"date":"2010-06-11T07:30:08","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T12:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/2010\/06\/11\/sewing-envy-decreased\/"},"modified":"2010-06-11T07:30:08","modified_gmt":"2010-06-11T12:30:08","slug":"sewing-envy-decreased","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/2010\/06\/11\/sewing-envy-decreased\/","title":{"rendered":"Sewing Envy Decreased"},"content":{"rendered":"

Awhile back I made a post<\/a> about having sewing envy and my desire to learn to sew.  Just recently I made a post<\/a> about \u201cSewing Boot Camp\u201d and how I wanted to make this shirt<\/a> for my first project.<\/p>\n

\u201cBoot Camp\u201d started on Wednesday.  We began the day by trying to figure out my hand me down sewing machine.  It turned out that we needed a different sewing needle.  Apparently my husband who also uses the machine likes to sew with a really large needle!  Dacia braved the pouring rain and headed to the store for supplies while I stayed home with the kids.  When Dacia returned we began cutting out the fabric pieces and got right to work.  <\/p>\n

After four hours of sewing, talking and tending to kids we still had a lot of work to do, but \u201cboot camp\u201d was over for the day.  After I put Mikayla to bed I got back to work.  I finished the pleats all by myself.  They were actually a lot easier than I thought they would be.  At 9:30 I decided to put the sewing away and go watch the Blackhawks win the Stanley Cup.  <\/p>\n

\"car<\/a>Progress Day One \u2013 With pockets, chestband, shoulder straps, and hem still needing to be done.<\/em> <\/p>\n

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Progress Day One \u2013 Without pockets (this is what I ended up with), chestband, shoulder straps, and hem still needing to be done.<\/em> <\/p>\n

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Up close shot of pleats.<\/em> <\/p>\n

On Thursday I headed to Dacia\u2019s house to finish up the shirt. And here is the end result (please ignore my hair and jewelry, I was wearing brown).<\/p>\n

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Sewing was not as difficult as I thought it would be and I am excited to have learned some very important skills on this shirt (straps, pleats, ruffles and hems).  If I did it over again there are some things I would change, but all in all I am pretty excited about my first sewing project.  My next project is going to be a skirt for Mikayla.  I think I might try this<\/a> skirt made from dishtowels!<\/p>\n

Thanks again to Dacia for helping me out and Carson, Callie, and Mikayla for putting up with us sewing for two days!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Awhile back I made a post about having sewing envy and my desire to learn to sew.  Just recently I made a post about \u201cSewing Boot Camp\u201d and how I wanted to make this shirt for my first project. \u201cBoot Camp\u201d started on Wednesday.  We began the day by trying to figure out my hand […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[21,76],"class_list":["post-994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-friends","tag-sew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kickert.info\/beth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}