{"id":511,"date":"2012-10-10T06:42:07","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T13:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=511"},"modified":"2012-10-10T12:16:29","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T19:16:29","slug":"sewing-projects-of-yore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=511","title":{"rendered":"Sewing Projects of Yore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve been steadily prepping to sew more clothes for K this week, I started to think about the early days of hand-stitching outfits for my little girl. My first foray was in 2008. I made an orange top without a pattern, and it ended up looking like a scruffy hospital gown. Who knows where it is now, and I wish I still had a photo of it.<\/p>\n<p>But I did find an image of the first dress I made (again, without a pattern, and the inside is a screaming mess):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/kfashion.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-512\" title=\"kfashion\" src=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/kfashion.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"1336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/kfashion.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/kfashion-179x300.jpg 179w, https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/kfashion-613x1024.jpg 613w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I started to buy Japanese craft books around then, and I was officially hooked. I kept sewing and sewing and sewing &#8211; K was definitely a source of constant inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of my favorites from those early days. K looks so different and grown-up now, and I got a little teary-eyed putting these together&#8230;my absolute favorite is the one with the pink and brown graphic top and khaki linen pants, so I had to squeeze in two images for that combo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/kfashion_collection.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-525\" title=\"kfashion_collection\" src=\"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/kfashion_collection.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"4593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/kfashion_collection.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/kfashion_collection-52x300.jpg 52w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I&#8217;ve been steadily prepping to sew more clothes for K this week, I started to think about the early days of hand-stitching outfits for my little girl. My first foray was in 2008. I made an orange top without a pattern, and it ended up looking like a scruffy hospital gown. Who knows where it is now, and I wish I still had a photo of it. But I did find an image of the first dress I made (again, without a pattern, and the inside is a screaming mess): I started to buy Japanese craft books around then, and I was officially hooked. I kept sewing and sewing and sewing &#8211; K was definitely a source of constant inspiration. Here are some of my favorites from those early days. K looks so different and grown-up now, and I got a little teary-eyed putting these together&#8230;my absolute favorite is the one with the pink and brown graphic top and khaki linen pants, so I had to squeeze in two images for that combo.<\/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],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sewing","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","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=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}