{"id":1587,"date":"2011-03-11T10:44:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T17:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/?p=1587"},"modified":"2011-03-11T19:28:35","modified_gmt":"2011-03-12T02:28:35","slug":"flannel-friday-josephs-overcoat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/flannel-friday-josephs-overcoat\/","title":{"rendered":"Flannel Friday: Joseph’s Overcoat"},"content":{"rendered":"

A long post today! <\/p>\n

It’s almost spring break, which means that Summer Reading will be here in about 7 and a half minutes. Here’s a flannel I made a couple of years ago for my Summer Reading Program school visits; since it’s based on a Jewish folktale (and song) I think I might brush it off again for One World Many Stories<\/a>!<\/p>\n

In this story, a man has a wonderful overcoat that he wears and wears until it’s all worn out. But then he makes a jacket out of the coat, and which he also wears until it’s all worn out. He makes a vest, a scarf, a tie, and at last a button…and when the button is worn out (or lost), he makes a story out of the button. <\/p>\n

There are many versions of this old tale, here’s just a few:
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\nAnd even a Western one:
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My favorite is Bit by Bit, but when I wrote my own version to tell, I borrowed ideas from several sources. <\/p>\n

And here’s the rough pattern I developed for my flannel pieces. The “lightning” shapes to the sides are lapels:<\/p>\n

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What it looks like all together. I stitched a button “placket” onto the two big pieces, and stitched edging onto the lapels, and sewed on some buttons, for extra detail:<\/p>\n

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And all apart:<\/p>\n

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I marked the top of each piece, on the back, with a black Sharpie dot, so I can quickly put it back together on the flannelboard (in between groups, for instance):<\/p>\n

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Here’s a slide show of all the pictures in sequence: An overcoat, a jacket, a vest, a scarf (two ends hanging down), a tie, a handkerchief, and a button:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Joseph's Overcoat<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Here’s me telling the story at a school visit–it will give you a sense of the size I used. (The color I used is due to having leftovers from making Kanga and Roo costumes for my daughter and me. I am sure you can come up with a more appealing color for your own version!) <\/p>\n

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Don’t miss these: <\/p>\n

Over at Early Literacy Connection, Jenna has a post with a photo<\/a> of the flannels she made to go with Something from Nothing!<\/p>\n

And here’s a “Preschool Story Cue Card<\/a>” for Something from Nothing, by Jill Heritage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A long post today! It’s almost spring break, which means that Summer Reading will be here in about 7 and a half minutes. Here’s a flannel I made a couple of years ago for my Summer Reading Program school visits; … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flannelboards"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2LHEP-pB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1587"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1645,"href":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1587\/revisions\/1645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/melissa.depperfamily.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}