{"id":2779,"date":"2010-05-15T23:35:02","date_gmt":"2010-05-16T04:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=2779"},"modified":"2010-05-15T23:35:02","modified_gmt":"2010-05-16T04:35:02","slug":"the-savvy-seamstress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20100515-2779.htm","title":{"rendered":"The Savvy Seamstress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The savvy seamstress knows the power of a mock-up.  <\/p>\n<p>Imagine trying to make a dress out of this lovely fabric<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"images\/20100515-2.jpg\" alt=\"Pattern and Fabric\" height=\"300\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>to fit on this (lovely but unconventionally sized) body.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"images\/20100515-3.jpg\" alt=\"Me\" height=\"400\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s just say that the pattern rarely fits.<\/p>\n<p>So a savvy seamstress makes a muslin mock-up.  That way, she can discover that she needs to use a size 16 front bodice piece and a size 8 back bodice piece, for example, without making any expensive mistakes on her pretty fabric.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, a really savvy seamstress hates to waste a good muslin bodice that now fits quite well.<\/p>\n<p>So sometimes she whips the muslin into a little something she can wear in real life too.  Like this fun little nightgown.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"images\/20100515-1.jpg\" alt=\"Homemade Nightgown\" height=\"400\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Not to toot my own horn, or anything.<\/p>\n<p>**I have not even cut out the dress fabric yet.  However, thanks to today&#8217;s work, I now know which sizes to cut and am thoroughly familiar with how the bodice is put together.  I hope to complete the dress sometime next week.**<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The savvy seamstress knows the power of a mock-up. Imagine trying to make a dress out of this lovely fabric to fit on this (lovely but unconventionally sized) body. Let&#8217;s just say that the pattern rarely fits. So a savvy seamstress makes a muslin mock-up. That way, she can discover that she needs to use &#8230; <a title=\"The Savvy Seamstress\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20100515-2779.htm\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Savvy Seamstress<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}