{"id":3977,"date":"2016-05-19T17:23:58","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T23:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/?p=3977"},"modified":"2016-05-19T17:23:58","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T23:23:58","slug":"realfee-houndstooth-dress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/?p=3977","title":{"rendered":"realfee houndstooth dress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i saw a picture of a black and white herringbone knit blanket with a red ruffle and it instantly inspired me to make a dress using the same colorway. i decided to do the bodice  and sleeves in solid red since the increases in the houndstooth would look kind of &#8220;smooshy&#8221; and then do the skirt the plaid and add a narrow band of paid near the cuffs to tie it together.  doing the ruffle on the skirt the same as the neck\/sleeve ruffles caused the skirt to curl too much so i ripped it out and did a mock pleat using a 3&#215;2 rib instead&#8230;. much better!<\/p>\n<p>the bodice and sleeves are knit on 1.5mm needles.  i switched to 1.75 mm when i started the houndstooth skirt, to add fullness and counteract the natural tightness of the slip stitch pattern.<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/onebluestocking\/26489111433\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"Herringbone dress\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7690\/26489111433_c35c2b6734.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Herringbone dress\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n i had all 24 ends sewn in and the sleeve seam sewn, when i suddenly decided i didn&#8217;t like the cuffs after all.. too floofy!  so i carefully cut the right one off and re-knit it in the round, since i didn&#8217;t want to even try and unstitch that whole seam without wrecking it.  now i like it much better.  i will be doing the same to the second sleeve.<br \/>\n<a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/onebluestocking\/27062695066\/in\/photostream\/\" title=\"Re-knit cuffs\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7037\/27062695066_c92ceea2bf.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Re-knit cuffs\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nand here it is with both cuffs re-done.  the pile of yarn at the top is all the bits of cut off\/unravelled yarn from the original cuffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i saw a picture of a black and white herringbone knit blanket with a red ruffle and it instantly inspired me to make a dress using the same colorway. i decided to do the bodice and sleeves in solid red since the increases in the houndstooth would look kind of &#8220;smooshy&#8221; and then do the skirt the plaid and add a narrow band of paid near the cuffs to tie it together. doing the ruffle on the skirt the same as the neck\/sleeve ruffles caused the skirt to curl too much so i ripped it out and did a mock&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[93,3],"tags":[4,284,392,404,379,390],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3977"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3981,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977\/revisions\/3981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onebluestocking.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}