{"id":8314,"date":"2014-01-24T05:00:49","date_gmt":"2014-01-24T13:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=8314"},"modified":"2014-01-23T22:04:52","modified_gmt":"2014-01-24T06:04:52","slug":"happy-friday-randomness-an-unscheduled-sewing-for-me-rendition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=8314","title":{"rendered":"Happy Friday + Randomness (+ An Unscheduled Sewing for Me Rendition)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Happy Friday! Old habits die hard, and I did sew something for myself this week, spurred by the need to create a sample for a class I’m teaching next month. I’m going to be frank — initially I wasn’t crazy about this dress once I sewed it up in this khaki linen-blend (I might have mentioned that I planned to create a slipcover with this fabric, so it’s a touch on the heavier side and I have yards and yards and yards of the stuff). I thought, “Oh no! What I have I done? I chose an awful dress to teach.”<\/p>\n

I adored it on the cover of the book<\/a> — it looks to be made out of a breezy light grey double-gauze:<\/p>\n

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It’s a deceptively straightforward-looking dress with no closures, 3\/4 length dolman-ish sleeves, very generous ease. However, there are a number of panels wrapping around in unexpected ways, so the area under the arms was trickier than expected. When I finished, I felt underwhelmed by the sack-like shape. The placement of gathers above my bust seemed iffy, and I wasn’t sure if the color was giving me a pukey color cast or not. Mostly, I gasped when I saw my arms looking like ham hocks.<\/p>\n

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I put it aside, a bit bummed out that it would\u00a0not<\/em> do as a sample for the class, and left it hanging in the bathroom.<\/p>\n

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I don’t know if the steam softened the linen or something or if I just needed some distance from the dress, but I’m pretty much in love with it now. It’s\u00a0very<\/em> Japanese (you know how I feel about that), and so wonderfully comfortable. I’ve always been a fan of the 3\/4 length sleeve, and though I’m still on the fence about the front gathers and the way the sleeve bunches up under my armpit, there are few things a well-placed scarf won’t solve.<\/p>\n

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There will be more versions in different fabrics of this dress coming up and they will be sent off to the fabric store as samples. I also need to make a version with pockets. Pockets would help the situation a thousandfold — I’m thinking welts? Anyhow, I really like my new khaki dress, but it’s still not sample-worthy due to some glaring imperfections in my stitching, so I will keep this for myself. I will be the expert I need to be after making a couple more (or so I hope). Hmmm…this probably isn ‘t inspiring a lot of confidence, but I do tend to over prepare for my classes, so let’s hope it goes well. More info on the class to come soon!<\/p>\n

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K is way into jokes these days…<\/p>\n

K: Mama, mama, this is my favorite joke: what kind of horse has red polka dots, green stripes and white stars?<\/p>\n

Me: Hmmm, I don’t know…<\/p>\n

K: I don’t know either, that’s why I asked you!<\/p>\n

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Have a lovely, lovely weekend everyone! I have a lot<\/em> of sewing to do and better get started!<\/p>\n

KCW<\/a> time<\/em>
\nAre you all ready to sew?<\/em>
\nExcitement abounds<\/em><\/p>\n

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Happy Friday! Old habits die hard, and I did sew something for myself this week, spurred by the need to create a sample for a class I’m teaching next month. I’m going to be frank — initially I wasn’t crazy about this dress once I sewed it up in this khaki linen-blend (I might have mentioned that I planned to create a slipcover with this fabric, so it’s a touch on the heavier side and I have yards and yards and yards of the stuff). I thought, “Oh no! What I have I done? I chose an awful dress to teach.” I adored it on the cover of the book — it looks to be made out of a breezy light grey double-gauze: It’s a deceptively straightforward-looking dress with no closures, 3\/4 length dolman-ish sleeves, very generous ease. However, there are a number of panels wrapping around in unexpected ways, so the area under the arms was trickier than expected. When I finished, I felt underwhelmed by the sack-like shape. The placement of gathers above my bust seemed iffy, and I wasn’t sure if the color was giving me a pukey color cast or not. Mostly, I gasped when I saw my arms looking like ham hocks. I put it aside, a bit bummed out that it would\u00a0not do as a sample for the class, and left it hanging in the bathroom. I don’t know if the steam softened the linen or something or if I just needed some distance from the dress, but I’m pretty much in love with it now. It’s\u00a0very Japanese (you know how I feel about that), and so wonderfully comfortable. I’ve always been a fan of the 3\/4 length sleeve, and though I’m still on the fence about the front gathers and the way the sleeve bunches up under my armpit, there are few things a well-placed scarf won’t solve. There will be more versions in different fabrics of this dress coming up and they will be sent off to the fabric store as samples. I also need to make a version with pockets. Pockets would help the situation a thousandfold — I’m thinking welts? Anyhow, I really like my new khaki dress, but it’s still not sample-worthy due to some glaring imperfections in my stitching, so I will keep this for myself. I will be the expert I need to be after making a couple more (or so I hope). Hmmm…this probably isn ‘t inspiring a lot of confidence, but I do tend to over prepare for my classes, so let’s hope it goes well. More info on the class to come soon! ***************************************************************************** K is way into jokes these days… K: Mama, mama, this is my favorite joke: what kind of horse has red polka dots, green stripes and white stars? Me: Hmmm, I don’t know… K: I don’t know either, that’s why I asked you! ***************************************************************************** Have a lovely, lovely weekend everyone! I have a lot of sewing to do and better get started! KCW time Are you all ready to sew? Excitement abounds    <\/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":[9,15,35],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8314","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-life","7":"category-sewing","8":"category-sewing-for-me","9":"entry","10":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8314","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=8314"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8335,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8314\/revisions\/8335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}