{"id":16416,"date":"2017-06-16T05:00:21","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=16416"},"modified":"2017-06-16T08:44:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-16T15:44:11","slug":"happy-friday-ks-grad-dress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=16416","title":{"rendered":"Happy Friday + K’s Grad Dress"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Happy Friday! I tell you, these days I can’t tell what’s up and what’s down with all that’s going on.\u00a0There are daily events at K’s school, work deadlines are looming and it’s dawning on me that my dream of sewing up a whole new wardrobe for my Japan trip is of the pipe variety. We leave next week and the total number of things I’ve sewn for the upcoming Asian\u00a0adventure: nada.<\/p>\n

Luckily, I started early on K’s graduation dress and after many, many iterations it’s done a week ahead of schedule!<\/p>\n

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One word: silk. Yes, my friends, this little number is made out of floaty, slippery, hair-pullingly challenging silk. My mom gave me this fabric years ago, and I had visions of sewing up a summer tunic for myself at some point, but when I asked K to choose material for her graduation dress, she beelined for this one.<\/p>\n

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I can’t even begin to tell you how relieved I am that she loves it. She found every muslin I attempted somehow lacking (I don’t blame her — I was trying to hack this pattern<\/a> and this pattern<\/a> together and it took me a few tries. You can see the progression on instagram here<\/a> and here<\/a>). In the end I drafted the entire dress pattern from scratch, which was a major learning curve for me given the asymmetry of the design.<\/p>\n

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The dress is fully lined with some rayon lining fabric, and I made my first ever thread belt loops using this video tutorial<\/a>. It’s basically crocheting thread, and I had fun.<\/p>\n

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I thought I had all the kinks worked out and sewed up the bodice with the lining, only to find out that the sleeve was digging into her arm pit.\u00a0It was a hairy moment since I wasn’t\u00a0sure if I’d be able to enlarge the armhole without messing the whole thing up, but whew, it all worked out. The dress fits her perfectly and she’s happy as a clam.<\/p>\n

The design was based off of this sketch that K so helpfully provided:<\/p>\n

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What do you think? The end result is pretty close to her sketch, right?<\/p>\n

I was so immersed in the making of the dress that it didn’t fully hit me that I was, in fact, making a graduation<\/em> dress. What a milestone! No more elementary school! Ack!! I’m not sure if I’m prepared to be the mom of a middle schooler…I am having HUMONGO\u00a0feelings.<\/p>\n

Back to preparing,<\/em>
\nwatch my baby grow,<\/em>
\nbegin packing for Japan<\/em><\/p>\n

P.S. Happy Father’s Day to all you Dads out there!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Happy Friday! I tell you, these days I can’t tell what’s up and what’s down with all that’s going on.\u00a0There are daily events at K’s school, work deadlines are looming and it’s dawning on me that my dream of sewing up a whole new wardrobe for my Japan trip is of the pipe variety. We leave next week and the total number of things I’ve sewn for the upcoming Asian\u00a0adventure: nada. Luckily, I started early on K’s graduation dress and after many, many iterations it’s done a week ahead of schedule! One word: silk. Yes, my friends, this little number is made out of floaty, slippery, hair-pullingly challenging silk. My mom gave me this fabric years ago, and I had visions of sewing up a summer tunic for myself at some point, but when I asked K to choose material for her graduation dress, she beelined for this one. I can’t even begin to tell you how relieved I am that she loves it. She found every muslin I attempted somehow lacking (I don’t blame her — I was trying to hack this pattern and this pattern together and it took me a few tries. You can see the progression on instagram here and here). In the end I drafted the entire dress pattern from scratch, which was a major learning curve for me given the asymmetry of the design. The dress is fully lined with some rayon lining fabric, and I made my first ever thread belt loops using this video tutorial. It’s basically crocheting thread, and I had fun. I thought I had all the kinks worked out and sewed up the bodice with the lining, only to find out that the sleeve was digging into her arm pit.\u00a0It was a hairy moment since I wasn’t\u00a0sure if I’d be able to enlarge the armhole without messing the whole thing up, but whew, it all worked out. The dress fits her perfectly and she’s happy as a clam. The design was based off of this sketch that K so helpfully provided: What do you think? The end result is pretty close to her sketch, right? I was so immersed in the making of the dress that it didn’t fully hit me that I was, in fact, making a graduation dress. What a milestone! No more elementary school! Ack!! I’m not sure if I’m prepared to be the mom of a middle schooler…I am having HUMONGO\u00a0feelings. Back to preparing, watch my baby grow, begin packing for Japan P.S. Happy Father’s Day to all you Dads out there!!<\/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-16416","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\/16416","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=16416"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16427,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16416\/revisions\/16427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}