{"id":7874,"date":"2013-12-23T05:00:44","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T13:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=7874"},"modified":"2013-12-22T13:17:58","modified_gmt":"2013-12-22T21:17:58","slug":"monday-outfit-shimmery-aqua-party-dress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=7874","title":{"rendered":"Monday Outfit: Shimmery Aqua Party Dress"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"metallic-aqua-party-dress1\"<\/a>Good morning! It was, of course, essential that I make a Christmas dress for K, and for the occasion, I pulled out a fabric that I’ve been saving for a long time. It’s a metallic aqua linen, and I knew it would be perfect as a festive frock.<\/p>\n

\"metallic-aqua-party-dress2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The metallic coating stiffens the fabric,which gives it a taffeta-like texture, and I found that I could finger-press pintucks quite effectively. This was helpful because ironing required a press cloth, and sometimes I would forget and my iron would get sticky with metallic residue. On a side note, I use this<\/a> as a press cloth, and I really love it. I got the fabric from here<\/a> many moons ago, and sadly, they no longer carry it.<\/p>\n

\"metallic-aqua-party-dress3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The pattern is from this great book<\/a>, but I made some slight changes. If you’ve been around here for awhile, you might recognize this dress pattern as the same one my lovely friend\u00a0Cherie<\/a> used for the clothing swap<\/a>. I want to start by saying that Cherie is a sewing genius because man, I could not get those pintucks even (though we all know this is an ongoing issue for me), and things in general got askew. I had Cherie’s dress in front of me as a reference and I kept marveling at her precise stitches. Mine, not so much.<\/p>\n

\"metallic-aqua-party-dress4\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Anyway, the changes. I wanted to use beads instead of the tabs at the end of the ribbon ties, so I opted for a thinner ribbon. I like how it ups the fancy factor with the beads. I also lengthened the skirt a smidge and I hand-stitched the armhole bindings because I tend to have better control that way. I tried to get K to push her hair back out of the way for a better visual of the dress, but, she was married to the idea of keeping her hair solidly covering the front of the dress.<\/p>\n

\"metallic-aqua-party-dress5\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s very…sparkly. K is gaga over it, I’m happy to report, though if I happen to catch a glimpse of the dress out of the corner of my eye, it looks like a mermaid costume. As far as party dresses for little girls go, it has just the right amount of glitz and glam and I declare it a winner. The pockets are my favorite part. Now, let’s see if I can magic some Christmas Eve pajamas within 24 hours…<\/p>\n

\"metallic-aqua-party-dress6\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good morning! It was, of course, essential that I make a Christmas dress for K, and for the occasion, I pulled out a fabric that I’ve been saving for a long time. It’s a metallic aqua linen, and I knew it would be perfect as a festive frock. The metallic coating stiffens the fabric,which gives it a taffeta-like texture, and I found that I could finger-press pintucks quite effectively. This was helpful because ironing required a press cloth, and sometimes I would forget and my iron would get sticky with metallic residue. On a side note, I use this as a press cloth, and I really love it. I got the fabric from here many moons ago, and sadly, they no longer carry it. The pattern is from this great book, but I made some slight changes. If you’ve been around here for awhile, you might recognize this dress pattern as the same one my lovely friend\u00a0Cherie used for the clothing swap. I want to start by saying that Cherie is a sewing genius because man, I could not get those pintucks even (though we all know this is an ongoing issue for me), and things in general got askew. I had Cherie’s dress in front of me as a reference and I kept marveling at her precise stitches. Mine, not so much. Anyway, the changes. I wanted to use beads instead of the tabs at the end of the ribbon ties, so I opted for a thinner ribbon. I like how it ups the fancy factor with the beads. I also lengthened the skirt a smidge and I hand-stitched the armhole bindings because I tend to have better control that way. I tried to get K to push her hair back out of the way for a better visual of the dress, but, she was married to the idea of keeping her hair solidly covering the front of the dress. It’s very…sparkly. K is gaga over it, I’m happy to report, though if I happen to catch a glimpse of the dress out of the corner of my eye, it looks like a mermaid costume. As far as party dresses for little girls go, it has just the right amount of glitz and glam and I declare it a winner. The pockets are my favorite part. Now, let’s see if I can magic some Christmas Eve pajamas within 24 hours…<\/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-7874","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\/7874","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=7874"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7886,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7874\/revisions\/7886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}