{"id":18450,"date":"2015-04-01T02:37:20","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T06:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=18450"},"modified":"2019-11-26T07:13:21","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T12:13:21","slug":"bow-tie-for-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/04\/01\/bow-tie-for-easter\/","title":{"rendered":"Bow Tie for Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"4594\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/10\/11\/coasters\/sewingheaderfinal-jw\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/SewingHeaderFinal-JW.jpg?fit=640%2C145&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,145\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"SewingHeaderFinal-JW\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/SewingHeaderFinal-JW.jpg?fit=640%2C145&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4594\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/SewingHeaderFinal-JW.jpg?resize=640%2C145&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"SewingHeaderFinal-JW\" width=\"640\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/SewingHeaderFinal-JW.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/SewingHeaderFinal-JW.jpg?resize=300%2C67&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"18452\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/04\/01\/bow-tie-for-easter\/birdbowtie\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/BirdBowTie.jpg?fit=640%2C456&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,456\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"BirdBowTie\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/BirdBowTie.jpg?fit=640%2C456&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18452\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/BirdBowTie.jpg?resize=640%2C456&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"BirdBowTie\" width=\"640\" height=\"456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/BirdBowTie.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/BirdBowTie.jpg?resize=300%2C214&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, I made the boy a new bow tie for Easter. I&#8217;ll stash it in his basket among the peanut butter eggs, Marshmallow Peeps, and jelly beans &#8211; where it will be roundly ignored until he has sufficiently ingested enough sugar to the point of twitching.<\/p>\n<p>Start to finish, this tie took about forty five minutes to make and is a great way to use up those small scraps you can&#8217;t bear to part with in your fabric stash. If you&#8217;re interested in making a bow tie, there&#8217;s a tutorial <a href=\"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/11\/15\/bow-tie-101\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, I made the boy a new bow tie for Easter. I&#8217;ll stash it in his basket among the peanut butter eggs, Marshmallow Peeps, and jelly beans &#8211; where it will be roundly ignored until he has sufficiently ingested &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/04\/01\/bow-tie-for-easter\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[3487,995,3486,88,3130],"class_list":["post-18450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sewing","tag-bird-fabric","tag-bow-ties","tag-dressing-up","tag-easter","tag-the-boy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-4NA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25208,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2019\/04\/16\/bow-tie-for-the-boy\/","url_meta":{"origin":18450,"position":0},"title":"Bow Tie for the Boy","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"April 16, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Every year at Easter, I make a bow tie for The Boy. 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