{"id":501,"date":"2010-09-26T13:17:09","date_gmt":"2010-09-26T17:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/?p=501"},"modified":"2010-09-26T13:17:09","modified_gmt":"2010-09-26T17:17:09","slug":"it-needs-something-but-what","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/?p=501","title":{"rendered":"It Needs Something…but what?!"},"content":{"rendered":"
    I’ve got an issue with my latest WIP. \u00a0This is “Corrine Elise<\/a>” from PBJK Patterns. \u00a0 I picked it up last year at the SAGA conference in Indianapolis and it’s been burning a hole in my pattern collection ever since.<\/ol>\n

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    But I have an issue that is holding me up from finishing it. It has an interesting one-piece, shaped yoke. The original pattern has lace insertion around the neck and yoke edge but I didn’t like that so I left it out. <\/p>\n

    Now, I’m stymied because the yoke looks so plain<\/em> compared to the embellished smocking and fancy hem. At the same time, I want to avoid the kitchen sink style of heirloom sewing that sees a person embellish a garment within an inch of its fabric-y life, just ’cause they can. What to do? What to do?<\/p>\n

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    Here’s a close-up of the smocking. As you can see, there are small pink bullion roses, flanked by tiny leaves and pearl beads.<\/p>\n

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    Here’s the hem. I left off the shaping and cut down on the number of bullion roses but it’s still really rich looking. I absolutely love the monochromatic feather stitch the goes around the whole hem.<\/p>\n

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    And here’s a close-up of the embroidery (please ignore my pencil marks – this dress hasn’t been soaked, seen an iron or a lick of starch!)<\/p>\n

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    Here are my options:<\/p>\n

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    1. Leave the yoke plain<\/li>\n
    2. Stitch a small rose and rosebud motif, centred just below the neck. Maybe add a few pearls?<\/li>\n
    3. Add a row of plain white featherstitching around the edge of the yoke and\/or neckline<\/li>\n
    4. Combine #2 and #3, working a rose motif at the neck and then finish it with a row of featherstitching around the neckline<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      What do you think? If you were doing the dress, what would you do? I think I may leave the dress for a few days and let my options percolate. I still have to finish the petticoat for this and I’ve got another bishop pleated up that will hopefully distract me. But I hate to leave a project this close<\/em> to being done. Grrr. Darn unembellished yoke. *stomp, stomp, grumble*<\/p>\n

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        I’ve got an issue with my latest WIP. \u00a0This is “Corrine Elise” from PBJK Patterns. \u00a0 I picked it up last year at the SAGA conference in Indianapolis and it’s been burning a hole in my pattern collection ever since. But I have an issue that is holding me up from finishing it. It has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-smocking","category-wip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","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=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairemeldrum.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}