{"id":35209,"date":"2016-12-28T05:32:51","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T12:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/?p=35209"},"modified":"2017-10-19T14:28:42","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T21:28:42","slug":"california-shirt-detail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/california-shirt-detail\/","title":{"rendered":"California Shirt detail"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"California<\/a>
California Shirt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The other day I talked about the shirt<\/a> I made for DH for Christmas.<\/p>\n

I\u00a0 decided I wanted to talk a little more about the details. The motifs lend themselves to fussy cutting and where I could I tried to use that technique to make the shirt more special.<\/p>\n

It didn’t always work out. I cut out the collar with the state capital beautifully centered and realized that it would come out upside down. Oh well.<\/p>\n

\"California<\/a>
California Shirt n.3 detail<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I did succeed on the pocket. I wanted to make the pocket larger since he has a larger cell phone now. Larger pockets can be floopy so I lined the pocket with ShapeFlex to give it some bulk and make it stronger. Pockets aren’t that large so I was able to find a scrap that worked really well. The flag will draw some attention from the Native Sons.<\/p>\n

I have successfully made buttonholes I like at TFQ’s house on her Bernina. I have never figured out how to use the buttonhole foot on my Janome 9000. I did get a lesson on the DC5100 and I knew it wasn’t difficult. I hauled that little machine over to SIL’s (the YM came over and carried it home for me when we finished) and used it to make the buttonholes.<\/p>\n

I took a prepared scrap over and did a couple of test runs. The test buttonholes came out beautifully, so I decided to go for it on the shirt.<\/p>\n

\"California<\/a>
California Shirt button closure<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Failure. I got and error message, the start of a buttonhole, then a straight stitch going in the wrong direction. \ud83d\ude41 SIL said that she needed to make a project with 100 buttonholes in order to feel confident. Very true, for many things, I think.<\/p>\n

I eventually made the machine work by turning it off and on again between each buttonhole. It was a pain and I had to reset the settings each time, but I got all of the buttonholes done.<\/p>\n

The buttons came out of a jar that TFQ bought for me at Road to California<\/a>. I really like them and think they fit the look of the shirt very well.<\/p>\n

The photo directly above has a great shot of one of the missions on the fabric design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The other day I talked about the shirt I made for DH for Christmas. I\u00a0 decided I wanted to talk a little more about the details. The motifs lend themselves to fussy cutting and where I could I tried to use that technique to make the shirt more special. It didn’t always work out. I … Continue reading “California Shirt detail”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[374],"tags":[277,316],"class_list":["post-35209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-374","tag-garment-sewing","tag-gifts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35209\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artquiltmaker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}