{"id":1301,"date":"2011-04-03T20:26:20","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T00:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/?p=1301"},"modified":"2011-04-03T20:26:59","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T00:26:59","slug":"monkeying-around-smocking-plate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/?p=1301","title":{"rendered":"Monkeying Around Smocking Plate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My &#8220;Monkeying Around&#8221; dress was published in the latest issue of SAGA News.  I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/?p=82\">wrote<\/a> about it last summer, when I was hmming and hawing over whether or not to correct the ripply binding.  (I ultimately did, btw)<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few snapshots of the dress, pre-corrections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-87    aligncenter\" title=\"Monkey Dress\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/monkeydress1-225x300.gif\" alt=\"Monkey Dress\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/monkeydress1-225x300.gif 225w, https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/monkeydress1.gif 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It looks really cute on the cover and the little girl they found to model it was totally working the twirly skirt. \u00a0 That&#8217;s the beauty of the circular skirt, eh? \u00a0Everyone keeps asking me she&#8217;s mine. \u00a0Nope. \u00a0Two brunettes, and both boys, in my house. \u00a0 My smocking&#8217;s generally of the vicarious sort. \u00a0 I just borrow them for photoshoots then I get all the fun of dressing them with none of the responsibilities of raising them \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Picture Smocked insert\" src=\"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/monkey-dress6-225x300.gif\" alt=\"Picture Smocked insert\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, somehow or another, between the editor and the printer and me, the monkey lost his hat, at least on the smocking plate that accompanies the article. \u00a0 I suspect the hat has gone to join the other sock that disappeared after it was put in the dryer. \u00a0Regardless of where it ended up, I wanted to post the corrected plate so that if you want to smock it as I did, you&#8217;ll be able to. \u00a0 Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sock-monkey-chart.pdf\">here<\/a> to download the corrected plate.<\/p>\n<p>As always, you are free to share the link to this project with sewing friends and use it for personal or charity sewing. Please credit my website and don\u2019t repost or resell the plate or instructions on your own site. \u00a0Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My &#8220;Monkeying Around&#8221; dress was published in the latest issue of SAGA News. I wrote about it last summer, when I was hmming and hawing over whether or not to correct the ripply binding. (I ultimately did, btw) Here are a few snapshots of the dress, pre-corrections. It looks really cute on the cover and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,7,20],"tags":[56,57,58],"class_list":["post-1301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magazine-article","category-smocking","category-smocking-plates","tag-free-smocking-design","tag-free-smocking-plate","tag-sock-monkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1301"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1327,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1301\/revisions\/1327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}