{"id":295,"date":"2004-06-29T20:36:54","date_gmt":"2004-06-29T20:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/wordpress\/?p=295"},"modified":"2004-06-29T20:36:54","modified_gmt":"2004-06-29T20:36:54","slug":"sew-dressy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=295","title":{"rendered":"sew dressy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I managed to finish sewing a dress over the weekend, but it was a bit of a struggle.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/purple dress.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"purple dress.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/purple dress-thumb.JPG\" width=\"160\" height=\"213\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis is McCall&#8217;s #3617. The dress has bust darts, and I was unable to, well, to fill them out, so I altered the darts to princess seams. I then had a heck of a time setting in the sleeves. There was a lot more sleeve than armhole, and I was left with some puckering, but I figured I could just pretend they were supposed to be puckered. All went well until I tried on the dress. Whoah, that&#8217;s some wide neck area, Nelly! I put on a strapless bra (yes, they do make them for the boobularly challenged) and wore it to the wedding, anyway.  The fabric is a retro print from the Aunt Gracie&#8217;s series, which I adore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I managed to finish sewing a dress over the weekend, but it was a bit of a struggle. This is McCall&#8217;s #3617. The dress has bust darts, and I was unable to, well, to fill them out, so I altered &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=295\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sewing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}