{"id":239,"date":"2016-01-29T14:33:48","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T19:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=239"},"modified":"2017-01-09T16:06:07","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T21:06:07","slug":"anyas-easter-dress-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=239","title":{"rendered":"Anya’s Easter Dress"},"content":{"rendered":"

My mom asked me if I’d make a dress for Aisha – she’d buy the pattern<\/a> and fabric, and I’d provide the labor. It is a really cute pattern,\u00a0and the size range is incredible. The dress pattern for Aisha’s size 7 dress includes the size 4 that I use for Anya. I figured I’d make the same dress in a different fabric\u00a0for Anya’s Easter dress\u00a0to give\u00a0me some practice using the pattern (and my new serger!!!<\/a>) before making something to give away.<\/p>\n

Looking at the pattern web page,\u00a0I really liked one of the fabrics pictured. I e-mailed their contact address and immediately was provided a link to the fabric<\/a>. Bonus, it is on clearance. I looked at the “how much fabric do I need” chart and worked out how much fabric I’d need — rounded up because it’s a fairly large print, and I wanted to have enough fabric to ensure I could get flowers and butterflies visible on the dress.<\/p>\n

I printed the pattern — each size is a different layer in the PDF file, so you don’t have a bunch of confusing lines intersecting. Awesome idea, one I hope more pattern designers\u00a0implement. Once all of the pieces were cut out, I laid the dresses out just to get an idea what they’d look like.<\/p>\n

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Getting the little sleeve gathered and affixed to the dress took a LOT of pins!<\/p>\n

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Stitched the front & back together, with the little sleeves sandwiched between the fabric and the lining … turned it right-side-out and we’ve got a dress top.<\/p>\n

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The bottom is a circle skirt – it gets attached to the bodice. I still need to serge the fabrics along the waist seam …\u00a0other than that, the dress is done!<\/p>\n

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I think it looks awesome. And Anya loves wearing it – dancing around and spinning. And I’ve got her Easter dress ready to go two months early!<\/p>\n

Realized, once I was finished, that I literally had enough fabric to make a second size 4 dress. I had added the “dress” yards and the “lining” yards together. D’oh! Feel\u00a0slightly<\/em> less silly because my mom did the exact same thing … There’s not enough extra fabric to do both a size 4 and a size 7 … but there’s plenty to make a skirt and the dress. Each girl is going to get a skirt from the other’s left-over fabrics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My mom asked me if I’d make a dress for Aisha – she’d buy the pattern and fabric, and I’d provide the labor. It is a really cute pattern,\u00a0and the size range is incredible. The dress pattern for Aisha’s size 7 dress includes the size 4 that I use for Anya. I figured I’d make …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,2],"tags":[3,51,4,8],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts","category-sewing","tag-anya","tag-crafts","tag-sewing-2","tag-wip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","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=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}