{"id":9472,"date":"2014-04-11T05:11:05","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T12:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=9472"},"modified":"2014-04-10T22:56:41","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T05:56:41","slug":"happy-friday-sewing-for-me-really-more-grey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/?p=9472","title":{"rendered":"Happy Friday + Sewing for Me: Really, More Grey?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Happy Friday! To the question, “Just how many grey dresses do you need?” I respond, “You can never have too many grey dresses”. This is dress “q” from the book that I’m giving away<\/a> (there’s still time!), and it’s unusual in that it is fully-lined. Most Japanese patterns do away with linings for some reason, and it’s always been a mystery to me.<\/p>\n

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This is the same charcoal chambray I used for my first\u00a0Tova<\/a>, and for this somewhat vintage-y dress, I cut the size 11 without any modifications. It looks pretty good from the front, right?\u00a0Love that pleat detail. Like the pleat, the subtle gathering of the sleeves surprised me.\u00a0The pleat and gathers really don’t show up much in the book’s photo.<\/p>\n

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The front may look decent, but the back tells another story. I obviously need to add a few inches to widen the bodice, and I seriously thought K wouldn’t be able to pull the zipper up. Said zipper is straining mightily as you can see, and there’s a bit of digging happening under the armpits.<\/p>\n

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The tight bodice does keep everything tucked in nice and secure though. This is what floating in nothingness in a too-snug frock looks like:<\/p>\n

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And really, if I’m able to nimbly dodge an on-coming, crawling-at-the-speed-of-light kid, I’d say this dress is more than adequate in the fit department.<\/p>\n

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(I need to point out that it was school pictures yesterday and she managed to find the two things that I haven’t sewn to wear – sigh. They’re from a couple of years ago…).<\/p>\n

So I’m trying something new. For almost two years, I have been diligently posting pretty much every week day, and I’ve been loving it. Sometimes, however, I think it’s important to take a break and I’m going to do just that. I’m taking all of next week off to spend spring break with K (M has to work all week) and to get going on my piling non-blog to-do list. I have<\/em> been trying to sew for KCW<\/a> and I’ll share some outfits when I get back!<\/p>\n

Have a wonderful weekend and I’ll see you back here on the 21st, when I will announce the giveaway <\/a>winners! In the meantime, I’ll keep it open. I love all the comments!! I can’t believe I didn’t include reading as part of my list of things I’d never get bored of. Some of you asked some questions, and I’ll address them either directly as an email or as a post, depending on the question. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n

Have a good one all!<\/em>
\nThough a week off will be weird<\/em>
\nIt’s time to recharge<\/em><\/p>\n

\"dress-q5\"<\/a>The camera caught me blowing a kiss to K…\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Happy Friday! To the question, “Just how many grey dresses do you need?” I respond, “You can never have too many grey dresses”. This is dress “q” from the book that I’m giving away (there’s still time!), and it’s unusual in that it is fully-lined. Most Japanese patterns do away with linings for some reason, and it’s always been a mystery to me. This is the same charcoal chambray I used for my first\u00a0Tova, and for this somewhat vintage-y dress, I cut the size 11 without any modifications. It looks pretty good from the front, right?\u00a0Love that pleat detail. Like the pleat, the subtle gathering of the sleeves surprised me.\u00a0The pleat and gathers really don’t show up much in the book’s photo. The front may look decent, but the back tells another story. I obviously need to add a few inches to widen the bodice, and I seriously thought K wouldn’t be able to pull the zipper up. Said zipper is straining mightily as you can see, and there’s a bit of digging happening under the armpits. The tight bodice does keep everything tucked in nice and secure though. This is what floating in nothingness in a too-snug frock looks like: And really, if I’m able to nimbly dodge an on-coming, crawling-at-the-speed-of-light kid, I’d say this dress is more than adequate in the fit department. (I need to point out that it was school pictures yesterday and she managed to find the two things that I haven’t sewn to wear – sigh. They’re from a couple of years ago…). So I’m trying something new. For almost two years, I have been diligently posting pretty much every week day, and I’ve been loving it. Sometimes, however, I think it’s important to take a break and I’m going to do just that. I’m taking all of next week off to spend spring break with K (M has to work all week) and to get going on my piling non-blog to-do list. I have been trying to sew for KCW and I’ll share some outfits when I get back! Have a wonderful weekend and I’ll see you back here on the 21st, when I will announce the giveaway winners! In the meantime, I’ll keep it open. I love all the comments!! I can’t believe I didn’t include reading as part of my list of things I’d never get bored of. Some of you asked some questions, and I’ll address them either directly as an email or as a post, depending on the question. Stay tuned. Have a good one all! Though a week off will be weird It’s time to recharge The camera caught me blowing a kiss to K…\u00a0      <\/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-9472","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\/9472","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=9472"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9494,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9472\/revisions\/9494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanaeishida.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}