{"id":170,"date":"2004-09-20T20:56:28","date_gmt":"2004-09-21T01:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/09\/working-hard-today\/"},"modified":"2004-09-20T20:56:28","modified_gmt":"2004-09-21T01:56:28","slug":"working-hard-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/09\/working-hard-today\/","title":{"rendered":"working hard today…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I spent the day working on the golden baby tunic. I used a pattern from Sewing Victorian Doll Clothes<\/a> as a starting point. I’ve used this pattern before when I made the Godey lady<\/a>. Here is a photo from the book-<\/p>\n

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What I was wanting was the sleeve design. The victorian (and earlier) sleeves were a very different design from today. This curved sleeve was used in men and womens clothing.<\/p>\n

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I copied the pattern and adjusted it to fit my doll and made a muslin model. If I had been smarter, I would have read the directions through again… but that’s not how I do things. Also, I never really learned any sewing techniques beyond about intermediate level. When I dive into a project with linings and piping and slippery, sort of metallic fabrics, I am really in over my head. I worked really hard on the tunic today- lots of intense concentration, basting, backing up, ripping out stitches, and, when I started feeling too stressed, worked a few rows of knitting- Well- my knitting is coming along VERY well! HA!
\nLots of the sewing is done by hand- because I can’t figure out how to do it by machine. The openings are too small or I just need the control of hand stitching.<\/p>\n

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This is a photo of the inside at the armhole. If a real person had to wear this they wouldn’t be very happy about all the lumps in their armpits… that is one good thing about sewing for dolls- they wear what you make them and don’t complain.<\/p>\n

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I have just about finished it now- I am sewing on the closures- hooks and eyes.
\nI’ll finish, photograph and post tomorrow. Right now my eyes and hands hurt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I spent the day working on the golden baby tunic. I used a pattern from Sewing Victorian Doll Clothes as a starting point. I’ve used this pattern before when I made the Godey lady. Here is a photo from the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}