{"id":2159,"date":"2011-03-24T21:30:37","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T02:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/?p=2159"},"modified":"2011-03-24T21:30:37","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T02:30:37","slug":"gingham-is-perfect-for-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/24\/gingham-is-perfect-for-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Gingham is perfect for Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/yarnattacks\/5556548349\/\" title=\"83.365: lookin' sharp by yarnattacks, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5307\/5556548349_78e525d167.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"83.365: lookin' sharp\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Tell me you love gingham! I found a piece of blue gingham fabric in a remnants bin at a Jo-Ann store that was closing. That means it was something like 75% off. Since Spring was fast approaching and I knew I wanted to make this guy a bow tie <i>some day<\/i> I immediately plopped it in my basket.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to last week and a post in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dana-made-it.com\/2008\/07\/celebrate-boy-part-2.html\" target=\"_blank1\">Celebrate the Boy<\/a> line-up. Specifically, <a href=\"http:\/\/deliacreates.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/lil-mister-bow-tie.html\" target=\"_blank\">this one<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/deliacreates.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"blank2\">delia creates<\/a>. Bingo! I used some scrap fabric to make a prototype and check my measurements. It came out OK, but I didn&#8217;t really dig the big triangle sides, so I made a completely rectangular one and voila! Both the boy and I <b>LOVE<\/B> it.<\/p>\n<p>I want to make more!<\/p>\n<p>Other shortcuts I took were to draw my pattern only twice on the fabric, then fold the piece in half and sew on the lines. I didn&#8217;t really want to cut it out four times and then pin and deal with tiny seam allowances. Call me lazy, if ya want, but I made two ties in less than half an hour, including time to wind a bobbin and thread my machine. If only I could get my littlest boy to wear it. He didn&#8217;t even let me tie it on his neck. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5307\/5556548349_78e525d167.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"83.365: lookin' sharp\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Tell me you love gingham! I found a piece of blue gingham fabric in a remnants bin at a Jo-Ann store that was closing. That means it was something like 75% off. Since Spring was fast approaching and I knew I wanted to make this guy a bow tie some day I immediately plopped it in my basket.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to last week and a [Read More&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,8],"tags":[28,229],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2159"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2163,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions\/2163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goodknits.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}