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Liesl checks in today with another Friday Weekend Links post.

Introducing the new Lisette B6423 coat pattern for Butterick. It’s an easy-to-sew and super stylish coat that is super comfortable to wear.

Introducing our first of two new Lisette styles for this winter. Lisette B6411 for Butterick is a chic and easy dress designed to be sewn with knits.

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you celebrating the holiday today. We’re thankful that you follow us and for what you contribute to the online sewing community.

Liesl is back home in Madrid after her three-week book tour of the United States. She has a little recap of her travels to share with you.

Today we’re kicking off the Building Block Dress design contest. The idea is to get you thinking about design elements and fabrics. Liesl has all the details on how you can participate.

Today we have a quick wrap up of the online portion of the Building Block Dress book tour and a teaser for a contest that will be kicking off later this week.

It’s about time for a big dose of Building Block Dress inspiration! Here are six gorgeous dresses, all very different, created recently from the Building Block Dress.

We’ve been hearing from many of you that you are collaborating with your children to design and sew Building Block Dresses. We love hearing about kids being involved in the design process! Here are some examples of kids’ drawings and the finished dresses that resulted from their vision.

Have you ever wanted to translate a sewing term into another language and realized that regular translation tools don’t speak sewing? Here’s the fix. Introducing sewingtranslator.com.

Liesl is here with two more free, downloadable tools you can use with her book, Oliver + S Building Block Dress. One is a measurement chart. The other is a miniature version of the dress pattern.

Liesl introduces you to a few free tools you can use to help you plan your Building Block Dress ideas: a set of free downloadable swatch cards and an inspiring Pinterest board.