{"id":1978,"date":"2012-02-10T00:17:12","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T05:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=1978"},"modified":"2012-02-10T00:17:12","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T05:17:12","slug":"a-crafty-post-an-apron-for-my-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=1978","title":{"rendered":"a crafty post:  an apron for my dad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMGP0498.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1980\" title=\"apron, &quot;towel&quot; detail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMGP0498.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMGP0498.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMGP0498-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>i just realized i never posted this birthday gift i made for my father.\u00c2\u00a0 it was inspired by the dark brown fabric you see above.\u00c2\u00a0 amber had it for sale in her shop and i knew i had to\u00c2\u00a0 make something for my dad with it&#8211;it sort of looks like blueprints and some of the buildings look like churches, perfect!\u00c2\u00a0 but what to make with only about a half yard of fabric?\u00c2\u00a0 then i remembered this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.purlbee.com\/unisex-apron\/\">apron pattern from the purl bee<\/a> and asked mom if dad needed a new apron by any chance.\u00c2\u00a0 she said she that would be a good idea.\u00c2\u00a0 i decided to try a slight change to the pattern.\u00c2\u00a0 i&#8217;ve never seen him use a pocket on an apron, but he constantly wipes his hands on a towel or on the apron, so i thought i&#8217;d try sewing the featured fabric on to the apron as an attached &#8220;towel&#8221; of sorts.\u00c2\u00a0 it&#8217;s just seamed at the top edge and the rest of the fabric is loose (i doubled the fabric over so it&#8217;s two layers thick and has no exposed raw edges).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMGP0496.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1979\" title=\"finished apron\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/IMGP0496.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"418\" height=\"630\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>i&#8217;m pretty happy with how it turned out and i think my dad likes it too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i just realized i never posted this birthday gift i made for my father.\u00c2\u00a0 it was inspired by the dark brown fabric you see above.\u00c2\u00a0 amber had it for sale in her shop and i knew i had to\u00c2\u00a0 make &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/?p=1978\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafty-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1978"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1981,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978\/revisions\/1981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thisishappystuff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}