{"id":13374,"date":"2015-06-08T05:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=13374"},"modified":"2015-06-07T18:45:28","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T01:45:28","slug":"monday-outfit-the-recital-dress-that-wasnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=13374","title":{"rendered":"Monday Outfit: The Recital Dress That Wasn’t"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Good morning! Instead of the puffed sleeve shirt 2.0, I made a dress for K this past weekend for her piano\/voice recital. Except…I didn’t finish it in time for the recital itself. I’m a little out of practice and failed\u00a0to whip up this very easy dress in\u00a0the two hours I was able carve out, though I got really, really close.\u00a0These photos were taken on Sunday, a day after the recital, when I got around to hemming the dress and adding the gold flower button.<\/p>\n

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K didn’t mind and happily wore the dress I made for her winter recital<\/a>. The night before the performance, her nerves jangled and jostled her into a state of agitation, and we almost had to call her teacher to cancel.\u00a0But she persevered and oh, it was wonderful<\/em>. She played a jazz piece duet with said teacher and sang “A Whole New World” from the movie Aladdin. I sat agape at how confident she seemed onstage.<\/p>\n

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I’m prone to tears anyway, but I\u00a0held back sobs\u00a0not only with K’s performance but with all the other ones too. I loved experiencing the unique personality of each performer. From classical to folk to broadway musical, there was a lot of variety. And there’s just something about the earnestness of a recital that always gets me choked up. Sigh. K’s going to be so<\/em> embarrassed of me as she gets older.<\/p>\n

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The pattern is from this book<\/a>\"\", and I’ve made this same dress in a gorgeous sateen a couple of years ago<\/a> (she still fits in the dress!). This time I tried it with a slippery, silky, hard to control rayon. It’s a rather chipper print, don’t you think? I had to recut the front bodice because the fabric had shifted too much with my first attempt. I also fully lined it with a beige cotton lawn fabric, and both K and I gave the final result a thumb’s up!<\/p>\n

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Alright, I was premature in declaring my manuscript done since my editor promptly sent it back with more text edits, so I’m wrapping it up today. Then it’s on to photos and final illustrations! Here’s K praying that I get everything done in time…<\/p>\n

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Good morning! Instead of the puffed sleeve shirt 2.0, I made a dress for K this past weekend for her piano\/voice recital. Except…I didn’t finish it in time for the recital itself. I’m a little out of practice and failed\u00a0to whip up this very easy dress in\u00a0the two hours I was able carve out, though I got really, really close.\u00a0These photos were taken on Sunday, a day after the recital, when I got around to hemming the dress and adding the gold flower button. K didn’t mind and happily wore the dress I made for her winter recital. The night before the performance, her nerves jangled and jostled her into a state of agitation, and we almost had to call her teacher to cancel.\u00a0But she persevered and oh, it was wonderful. She played a jazz piece duet with said teacher and sang “A Whole New World” from the movie Aladdin. I sat agape at how confident she seemed onstage. I’m prone to tears anyway, but I\u00a0held back sobs\u00a0not only with K’s performance but with all the other ones too. I loved experiencing the unique personality of each performer. From classical to folk to broadway musical, there was a lot of variety. And there’s just something about the earnestness of a recital that always gets me choked up. Sigh. K’s going to be so embarrassed of me as she gets older. The pattern is from this book, and I’ve made this same dress in a gorgeous sateen a couple of years ago (she still fits in the dress!). This time I tried it with a slippery, silky, hard to control rayon. It’s a rather chipper print, don’t you think? I had to recut the front bodice because the fabric had shifted too much with my first attempt. I also fully lined it with a beige cotton lawn fabric, and both K and I gave the final result a thumb’s up! Alright, I was premature in declaring my manuscript done since my editor promptly sent it back with more text edits, so I’m wrapping it up today. Then it’s on to photos and final illustrations! Here’s K praying that I get everything done in time…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,40],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13374","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sewing","7":"category-sewing-for-k","8":"entry","9":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13374"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13396,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13374\/revisions\/13396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}