{"id":774,"date":"2006-07-27T19:09:03","date_gmt":"2006-07-27T19:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/wordpress\/?p=774"},"modified":"2006-07-27T19:09:03","modified_gmt":"2006-07-27T19:09:03","slug":"japanese-craft-books-and-sizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=774","title":{"rendered":"japanese craft books and sizing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aloha! I&#8217;m glad you are finding the sewing tips useful. Some of you asked about sizing in the Japanese sewing books. In the books I have, the patterns seem to come in 3 to 4 sizes. Each pattern comes with a little sizing chart that indicates the finished dimensions. The following is for a dress:<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/japn-pattern-sizing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"japn-pattern-sizing.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/japn-pattern-sizing-thumb.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"267\" border=\"3\" \/><\/a><\/center>The measurements are in centimeters. I usually make the smallest size, and so far the sizing seems to be relatively accurate. I usually have to make things shorter than the pattern, since I am 5&#8217;2&#8243; (on a good day). Hope that helps! Now get sewing, y&#8217;all!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aloha! I&#8217;m glad you are finding the sewing tips useful. Some of you asked about sizing in the Japanese sewing books. In the books I have, the patterns seem to come in 3 to 4 sizes. Each pattern comes with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=774\">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-774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sewing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774","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=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}