{"id":1057,"date":"2017-04-12T12:29:43","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T17:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=1057"},"modified":"2020-02-06T10:43:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T15:43:22","slug":"peppermint-swirl-dress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=1057","title":{"rendered":"Peppermint Swirl Dress"},"content":{"rendered":"

I came across a new pattern this weekend – the Peppermint Swirl Dress from Candy Castle Patterns<\/a> – that I absolutely love.\u00a0I can think of a lot of combinations that are\u00a0holiday specific — red, white, and blue Independence Day dress, or a red and green Christmas dress. But\u00a0didn’t want a wear-once dress.<\/p>\n

It would also be great for a single color with gradients — take eight shades and arrange them 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 – 7 – 8 – 7 – 6 – 5 – 4 – 3 – 2 (loop back to #1 at the beginning). *But* this dress takes a\u00a0lot<\/em> of fabric. Like five yards for a 5 year old kid. At ten dollars a yard, it’s a fairly expensive dress using two or three fabrics. Even if I could get half yards for the skirt segments and use Kona cotton solids at 6$ a yard … that’s around 50$ for the skirt. Which, unfortunately, makes it a special occasion type of outfit.<\/p>\n

Maybe as I get more fabric scraps, it would be a neat use-the-scraps project. But, for now, I wanted to get two colours that could be worn pretty much whenever. And I’d rather not spend 10$ a yard \ud83d\ude42 So I began searching for closeout fabrics. There are a TON of cool closeouts in the 4$-5$ a yard range, but finding two that coordinated well … not so much. I thought about getting a print and then picking up a coordinating Kona locally. But then I came across\u00a0a sale on marbled fabrics.\u00a0I should have a blue and cream\u00a0marbles in a week or so. I plan to use the blue as the dress top, make some piping with the cream fabric to go along the neckline, and use the cream fabric for the sash.<\/p>\n

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I came across a new pattern this weekend – the Peppermint Swirl Dress from Candy Castle Patterns – that I absolutely love.\u00a0I can think of a lot of combinations that are\u00a0holiday specific — red, white, and blue Independence Day dress, or a red and green Christmas dress. But\u00a0didn’t want a wear-once dress. It would also …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[168,51,167,4,8],"class_list":["post-1057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sewing","tag-candy-castle-patterns","tag-crafts","tag-peppermint-swirl-dress","tag-sewing-2","tag-wip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5948,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions\/5948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}