{"id":3178,"date":"2011-01-04T18:03:02","date_gmt":"2011-01-04T18:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/?p=31"},"modified":"2011-01-04T18:03:02","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T18:03:02","slug":"fairies-and-lilac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/?p=3178","title":{"rendered":"Fairies and Lilac"},"content":{"rendered":"

Master, Little Miss Bossy-Boots and I duly went to the fabric shop to buy some fabric for the bean bag. I had visions of crisp stripes, funky dots or a gorgeous floral and was really excited. However, I had promised Little Miss Bossy-Boots that she could pick the fabric herself. A task which she absolutely loved.<\/p>\n

She ran around very quickly to find all the pinks and purples and picked a lovely voile with butterflies on. Sadly, I had to tell her that she couldn’t use that material as it was just too thin and wouldn’t survive as a bean bag cover for very long.\u00a0I tried to steer her toward a gorgeous pink, white and green stripe that would look really good in her room but she took one look and rejected it straightaway.<\/p>\n

She went round the corner and squealed. She’d found the fabric she wanted and I groaned. It was Fairies on a lilac ground. Now anyone who knows me knows I do not like lilac (I apologise to anyone who loves purples and lilacs), there is no lilac in our house and I thought there never would be. Purples I have warmed to, we even have purple curtains (which I chose) in the lounge but I guess living with Little Miss Bossy-Boots I’ll have to get used to lilac.<\/p>\n

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Anyway, I sat down and cut out all the pieces for the bean bag cover with Little Miss Bossy-Boots’ help. She likes to hand me the pins and comment on everything I do. It does slow the process down a little bit but I don’t mind. I basically made the cover the same size as the bean bag itself but added a handle at the top and velcro in the bottom so that the cover can be removed and washed.<\/p>\n

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I tried to finish the cover as quickly as possible and therefore made a few mistakes. First, I pinned one panel wrong side up but realised it before sewing. Second, while attaching the handle I didn’t take the 1cm seam allowance into consideration and therefore my cross is rather wonky. Luckily, my little two year old doesn’t mind and I got away with it. I’ll know for next time!<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I do apologise for the dog’s hairs on the bean bag. I tried to remove all of them before I took the picture but obviously wasn’t very successful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Master, Little Miss Bossy-Boots and I duly went to the fabric shop to buy some fabric for the bean bag. I had visions of crisp stripes, funky dots or a gorgeous floral and was really excited. However, I had promised Little Miss Bossy-Boots that she could pick the fabric herself. A task which she absolutely… Continue Reading Fairies and Lilac<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[105,106,200],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}