{"id":1123,"date":"2009-12-16T18:07:43","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T18:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/wordpress\/?p=1123"},"modified":"2009-12-16T18:07:43","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T18:07:43","slug":"you-win-some-you-lose-some","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=1123","title":{"rendered":"you win some; you lose some"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/IMG_1253_512x768.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_1253_512x768.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/IMG_1253_512x768-thumb.jpg\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" border=\"3\" \/><\/a><\/center>There&#8217;s a reason you&#8217;re seeing that shirt-jacket on the dressform instead of on me. It is ill fitting! Blast those darts! I can&#8217;t fill them out! I even wore a somewhat padded bra, and still there was a lot of gaping fabric around the chest region. I think part of the problem is perhaps I got too aggressive with the vertical darts, because the thing is fitted around the waist but all billowy above? I swear I was just following the pattern.<br \/>\nAnyway, look how cute it&#8217;s SUPPOSED to be:<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/IMG_1255_1024x682.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_1255_1024x682.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/IMG_1255_1024x682-thumb.jpg\" width=\"420\" height=\"279\" border=\"3\" \/><\/a><\/center>Right? And it&#8217;s not like the model is chest-o-rama or anything. Maybe using corduroy was a bad call on my part. Not sure.<br \/>\nThe pattern is from this book:<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/IMG_1254_512x768.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"IMG_1254_512x768.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/IMG_1254_512x768-thumb.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"375\" border=\"3\" \/><\/a><\/center>It doesn&#8217;t seem to be available on Kinokuniya.com right now, but the ISBN is 978-4309280417. I am going to go console myself now by making some of those crunchy chow mein noodle haystack cookies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a reason you&#8217;re seeing that shirt-jacket on the dressform instead of on me. It is ill fitting! Blast those darts! I can&#8217;t fill them out! I even wore a somewhat padded bra, and still there was a lot of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=1123\">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-1123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sewing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}