{"id":995,"date":"2016-08-06T10:00:32","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T15:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/?p=995"},"modified":"2016-08-04T12:00:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T17:00:09","slug":"almada-robe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/?p=995","title":{"rendered":"Almada Robe"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think 2016 has become The Year of the Repeat for me. I’m reknitting a lot of sock patterns I’ve knitted before (not that you’d know that… I need to show you some socks, huh?), and remaking a lot of things I made once but didn’t get quite right. And this is another one.<\/p>\n

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Savvy readers will recall that some time ago I made a bathrobe<\/a>. I made it out of some cozy rayon doubleknit, and I just did my best with the pattern since it was a hot mess and I was converting it to work with a knit rather than a woven. And as far as bathrobes go, it did alright. It’s more snuggie than bathrobe, honestly, and due to my wonky sewing it doesn’t hang as well as you want a bathrobe to hang (meaning it has a tendency to try and gape and reveal my arty bits when I’m wearing it). Also, it’s really freaking heavy.<\/p>\n

I don’t really wear a bathrobe that often, but sometimes there are people in my house and I still want to take a shower. In those instances, it’s nice to have something that isn’t just a towel to make the trek from bedroom to bathroom and back (I refuse to dress in a muggy bathroom. I consider it a form of torture).<\/p>\n

Enter the lovely Seamwork<\/a> magazine, and the equally lovely Almada Robe<\/a> that was part of their loungewear issue. Seamwork is a product of the wonderful brains at Colette, and the goal is to give you lots of sewing tips, tricks, and know-how along with patterns that you can make up in under 3 hours. It’s lovely. But you can also buy the patterns a la carte if you (like me) are sort of an idiot and don’t subscribe. During one of their last sales I bought Almada. Then I waited ever so patiently for a fabric.com sale and snapped up 4 yards of gorgeous Cloud 9 Organics double gauze. And then three days ago, I had my (more than) three hours of making.<\/p>\n

I got a little more fabric than required because I intended to make my robe a bit longer (about 4″, all told). I cut all the pieces, then serged all the edges that wouldn’t be finished together after seaming, which was most of them. I followed the instructions pretty much to the letter, except I used rayon seam binding instead of bias tape to face the front opening so mine is much more narrow than theirs, and I omitted the snap. I figured I can always add it later, but for my purposes it looks and works just fine without. The only trouble I had was with the cuff, which seems to be drafted a bit too small for the sleeve opening. It’s possible my double gauze just stretched out, since I didn’t finish that edge, but whatever the reason I have several puckers on each one. Again, for the purpose this garment is serving, it’s no big deal.<\/p>\n

And oh friends it is so SOFT. And LIGHT. It’s like fluttering about in a soft little fairy cocoon. I love it. And since it is just a little wisp of a thing, it’s even PACKABLE. I might take it with me on my upcoming road trip to Maine so I won’t have to dress in the bathroom up there! It will be a revelation!<\/p>\n

And since it’s not something I will wear out of the house, it’s not a Wardrobe Architect project (I know, I know. But they’re coming!). But all the same I’m so glad to finally have a more functional robe, and one that makes me feel ever so feminine and sweet too. Thanks Seamwork!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think 2016 has become The Year of the Repeat for me. I’m reknitting a lot of sock patterns I’ve knitted before (not that you’d know that… I need to show you some socks, huh?), and remaking a lot of things I made once but didn’t get quite right. And this is another one. Savvy readers will recall that some time ago I made a bathrobe. I made it out.. Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[25,20,43],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sewing","tag-colette","tag-finished-object","tag-repeat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":999,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions\/999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/missaudrey.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}