{"id":6067,"date":"2010-03-08T07:14:43","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T11:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=6067"},"modified":"2010-02-25T10:36:26","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T14:36:26","slug":"the-silk-bat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=6067","title":{"rendered":"The Silk Bat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/batdress-155x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bat Dress\" title=\"Bat Dress\" width=\"155\" height=\"300\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Xandra of <a href=\"http:\/\/evadress.blogspot.com\/\">EvaDress<\/a> is a professional pattern maker who has a great fondness for &#8220;retro sews.&#8221;  Her blog is full of vintagey goodness, and right now she&#8217;s working on replicating a bat costume she found in an 1887 French publication.<\/p>\n<p>She doesn&#8217;t have a pattern, just this picture, so she&#8217;s doing it all from scratch and occasionally posting about her progress:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/evadress.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/die-seidene-fledermaus.html\">Part 1<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/evadress.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/patterns-2010-progress.html\">Part 2<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/evadress.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/1887-bat-costume-progress.html\">Part 3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s not a lot of detail on her process, but I&#8217;ll definitely be interested in seeing the finished product.  The dress is gorgeous, but I&#8217;d love just the bat-wing cape as a separate piece.  With luck, maybe she&#8217;ll sell the pattern in her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evadress.com\/\">store<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xandra of EvaDress is a professional pattern maker who has a great fondness for &#8220;retro sews.&#8221; Her blog is full of vintagey goodness, and right now she&#8217;s working on replicating a bat costume she found in an 1887 French publication. She doesn&#8217;t have a pattern, just this picture, so she&#8217;s doing it all from scratch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-doom-it-yourself"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6067"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6111,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067\/revisions\/6111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}