{"id":1832,"date":"2014-04-08T08:05:46","date_gmt":"2014-04-08T15:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delightfilledart.wordpress.com\/?p=1832"},"modified":"2016-01-19T23:11:49","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T07:11:49","slug":"sewing-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=1832","title":{"rendered":"Sewing streak"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was inspired to do some sewing by this cute dress<\/a> that I saw on instagram by lemonadeamsterdam<\/a>. Within 24 hours, I sewed two dresses (the first two I’ve ever made) and a skirt for my six-year-old daughter. It’s great having an eager little model who likes wearing dresses.<\/p>\n

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Red dress with vintage floral band<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I started with this red one, because I had a big piece of red cloth. (By the way, this is not<\/em> a tutorial…I am not a very precise person, so there are probably thousands of better instructional posts out there if you are attempting to sew a dress). I’m fortunate to have a box of cloth scraps, as well as a functional sewing machine, borrowed from my mother-in-law. There are a few great pieces of vintage fabric in the collection, like the blue daisy fabric along the bottom of this dress.<\/p>\n

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Not a great photo, but this is the only one I took while making this dress. This was the dress I traced to get the general size for the dress.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I traced one of my daughter’s existing dresses, leaving extra inches all over. Then I basically did a lot of stitching wherever there was a rough edge. We put a long zipper in at the back. The difficult part (where a pattern would’ve been nice) was the shape around the arms and neck. It turned out a bit snug at the top, but it fits well without extra shirts underneath. Stay tuned for a few more spontaneous sewing projects.<\/p>\n

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\"handmade<\/a>
And of course, a silly pose.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I was inspired to do some sewing by this cute dress that I saw on instagram by lemonadeamsterdam. Within 24 hours, I sewed two dresses (the first two I’ve ever made) and a skirt for my six-year-old daughter. It’s great … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,36,38],"tags":[261,370,405,509,566,817,861,975],"class_list":["post-1832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative-2","category-parenting-2","category-sewing-2","tag-childhood","tag-dress","tag-fabric","tag-handmade","tag-kids","tag-retro","tag-sewing","tag-vintage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}