{"id":254,"date":"2006-04-17T16:08:07","date_gmt":"2006-04-17T21:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karinajean.com\/wp\/?p=254"},"modified":"2006-04-17T16:09:26","modified_gmt":"2006-04-17T21:09:26","slug":"skirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karinajean.com\/wp\/2006\/04\/skirt\/","title":{"rendered":"skirt!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>this weekend was so fantastic. to start with, on friday I finished <a href=\"http:\/\/karinajean.com\/wp\/?p=249\">my new skirt.<\/a> It took about 3 or 4 hours, and it came out pretty great, if I do say so!<\/p>\n<p>you can see the pleated detail here, even though I&#8217;m very &#8220;mmmm, cake&#8221; in this photo.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Photo Sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/karinajean\/130354593\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"digicam 020\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/55\/130354593_e76d3ea8e3.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>here&#8217;s a good idea of the length and backside.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Photo Sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/karinajean\/130355912\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"digicam 054\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/53\/130355912_ec855042ba.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and I&#8217;m not sure what I&#8217;m doing here, but you can see clearly how comfortable and easy to ear this piece of apparel is (OH! I just remembered! I was showing Jenn C. warrior pose, right before I showed her TKD back stance and we mock fought. ha!):<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Photo Sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/karinajean\/130356018\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"digicam 057\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/46\/130356018_e13c38669c.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>what a bunch of glamour shots! they&#8217;re so funny. and that&#8217;s one more skirt I&#8217;ve made vs. buying. sweet. I have to say: I would love to be all punk rock crafter and say &#8220;oh, I don&#8217;t need a pattern&#8221; and maybe it&#8217;s true, but it is a heckuvalot easier to sew things with patterns. without a pattern it takes me easily 2x as long, because I have to constantly alter as I go along. with the pattern I just suspend my disbelief that it will fit and it all pulls together at the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>this weekend was so fantastic. to start with, on friday I finished my new skirt. It took about 3 or 4 hours, and it came out pretty great, if I do say so! you can see the pleated detail here, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/karinajean.com\/wp\/2006\/04\/skirt\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,18,2,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-buy-vs-make","category-crafts","category-sewing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karinajean.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karinajean.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karinajean.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karinajean.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karinajean.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karinajean.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karinajean.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karinajean.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karinajean.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}