{"id":867,"date":"2006-12-27T21:34:55","date_gmt":"2006-12-27T21:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/wordpress\/?p=867"},"modified":"2006-12-27T21:34:55","modified_gmt":"2006-12-27T21:34:55","slug":"bustin-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=867","title":{"rendered":"bustin&#8217; out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know it seems like I don&#8217;t knit or sew anymore. It sure seems that way to me! Well, I actually sewed a skirt recently. I may have been inspired by a little accident I had last week&#8211;my car drove itself to the local sewing center down the hill from us, and it came home with a new serger. I don&#8217;t know how it happened.<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/jean skirt front.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"jean skirt front.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/jean skirt front-thumb.JPG\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" border=\"3\" \/><\/a><\/center>The pattern is from one of the Japanese skirt books I have (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/supereggplant\/248717269\/in\/set-632969\/\">this one<\/a>). I had some trouble with the fly and the waistband, but the pockets weren&#8217;t too difficult to put together. I&#8217;m not that crazy about the finished product, though. All these holiday sweets means I&#8217;m packing on some extra pounds, and this skirt is a little more snug than I like. It is also high waisted, which I can&#8217;t stand. So, I think I&#8217;m going to fiddle with the pattern a bit and make another one, since I do really like the styling of the skirt. Meanwhile, I&#8217;ll send this one to a friend and hope she likes it. Here&#8217;s the back (sorry for the fuzzy photo):<br \/>\n<center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/jean skirt back.JPG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"jean skirt back.JPG\" src=\"http:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/archives\/jean skirt back-thumb.JPG\" width=\"200\" height=\"266\" border=\"3\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know it seems like I don&#8217;t knit or sew anymore. It sure seems that way to me! Well, I actually sewed a skirt recently. I may have been inspired by a little accident I had last week&#8211;my car drove &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/?p=867\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867","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=867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.supereggplant.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}