{"id":2022,"date":"2012-01-31T16:51:02","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T21:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/?p=2022"},"modified":"2012-02-12T19:14:17","modified_gmt":"2012-02-13T00:14:17","slug":"a-quick-winter-jumper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/?p=2022","title":{"rendered":"A Quick Winter Jumper"},"content":{"rendered":"

We celebrated the boys’ birthday last weekend (and no, you won’t be seeing picture after picture of an immaculately planned, exquisitely executed party complete with matching themed everything on this blog. \u00a0I make a homemade chocolate cake. \u00a0I iced it. \u00a0It sort of looked like a lego block. \u00a0Sort of. \u00a0Regardless, the children ate it\/smeared it\/devoured it and I am comfortable with that level of motherly love. \u00a0Live with it :))<\/p>\n

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The reason I am telling you this is not to announce my ceding of the crown to Martha “it’s a good thing” Stewart but to say that my niece and SIL came down to celebrate with us, which gave me a chance to whip up a quick outfit for Ellie. \u00a0I’m quite busy at work and sewing gives me a chance to relax. \u00a0All the same, I wanted something fast, so I chose this cute jumper from a 2005 issue of Ottobre (the same issue that her raincoat<\/a> came from, actually).<\/p>\n

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I know it looks like an infant’s garment but it went up to a size 3 (98cm) so it worked perfectly for E. \u00a0I picked up the fabric – a vibrant cat print – from Len’s Mill. \u00a0My niece has a thing for our cat, Puss. \u00a0Or as she calls her, “Puss-eee”. \u00a0The fabric was an end, bright enough that she’ll still be able to wear it in the spring with a t-shirt but dark enough that it’s appropriate for winter wear, too. \u00a0It’s a very, very light twill.<\/p>\n

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All of the buttons, studs and the clasps are stash, from a jean making frenzy I entertained (briefly) when David was about five.<\/p>\n

In fact, I wouldn’t have minded it having a little more weight to the fabric, given the weight of the findings but interfacing the yoke took care of the problem well enough that I was satisfied.<\/p>\n

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I top stitched with machine quilting thread. \u00a0It could have stood to be a little thicker, too since the fabric was so busy but I was stash diving and I wasn’t going out for more thread. \u00a0I also toyed with adding some machine embroidery to the front yoke or pocket but I was going for “quick and easy” here. \u00a0It’s too easy to get sucked into adding one more thing each and every time. \u00a0 Like Odysseus, I resisted.<\/p>\n

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There are some very nice details to the pattern(it’s Ottobre – that’s no suprise) for such a quick project. \u00a0 The front and back bibs are fully faced and the button extensions work up really nicely. \u00a0Here’s a CU of the side placket.<\/p>\n

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All told, it was about 45 minutes to trace and cut and another 3 1\/2 to sew it up. \u00a0I did forget the belt loops but by the time I\u00a0remembered, I was going to have to get my seam ripper involved to fix the oversight so I just left it as it was. \u00a0Ellie really liked it and I almost wish the dress came in larger sizes – I could definitely see this working up in a myriad of ways.<\/p>\n

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We celebrated the boys’ birthday last weekend (and no, you won’t be seeing picture after picture of an immaculately planned, exquisitely executed party complete with matching themed everything on this blog. \u00a0I make a homemade chocolate cake. \u00a0I iced it. \u00a0It sort of looked like a lego block. \u00a0Sort of. \u00a0Regardless, the children ate it\/smeared […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,39],"tags":[29,144],"class_list":["post-2022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pattern-review","category-sewing-for-children","tag-ottobre","tag-winter-sewing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022","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=2022"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2044,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022\/revisions\/2044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}