{"id":2694,"date":"2015-07-12T19:02:37","date_gmt":"2015-07-13T00:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=2694"},"modified":"2015-10-09T12:57:14","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T17:57:14","slug":"return-to-shirt-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=2694","title":{"rendered":"Return to shirt making"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2695\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 351px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/red-gingham-seersucker-shirt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2695\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/red-gingham-seersucker-shirt.jpg\" alt=\"SAMSUNG CAMERA PICTURES\" width=\"351\" height=\"502\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Shirt #18 (gingham seersucker)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After taking a hiatus, I&#8217;ve answered a request from Jacob for more seersucker shirts.\u00a0 He absolutely loves their carefree comfort and current popularity.\u00a0 I love the ease of making them and how nice they look on him.<\/p>\n<p>The basic pattern is Kwik Sew 1024 (probably discontinued as it&#8217;s pretty old) which has been altered more than once.\u00a0 Because of more weight loss, Jake requested I alter the pattern again.\u00a0 This red gingham seersucker shirt is the first test sewing of this most recent alteration.\u00a0 This version has a dark red collar stand (inside and out) and a rounded collar<\/p>\n<p>He will be here later tonight and most of the week so will have plenty of opportunity to try it for fit.\u00a0 At that point, I&#8217;ll either alter the pattern more or continue using this version to make more shirts.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve purchased several pieces of seersucker.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Jacob&#8217;s birthday is this week so new shirts are an appreciated gift.\u00a0 Shirts, a special dinner, watermelon from the garden and a cake will be the sum of the celebration as we give most of our attention to DH&#8217;s current health challenge.\u00a0 Unfortunately, it&#8217;s a serious, life-altering issue requiring many doctor&#8217;s appointments, tests, treatments and hospital stays.\u00a0 NO FUN!<\/p>\n<p>Shirl<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After taking a hiatus, I&#8217;ve answered a request from Jacob for more seersucker shirts.\u00a0 He absolutely loves their carefree comfort and current popularity.\u00a0 I love the ease of making them and how nice they look on him. The basic pattern is Kwik Sew 1024 (probably discontinued as it&#8217;s pretty old) which has been altered more<span class=\"more-excerpt\"><a class=\"more-excerpt-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/?p=2694\"> (continue reading&#8230;)  <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,10,39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2694"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2714,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2694\/revisions\/2714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shirlsu.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}