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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.

Ready to get to work designing your own dress to sew from Liesl’s Oliver + S Building Block Dress? We’ve got a fun little design sheet giveaway for you today that will help you do that.

Liesl checks in this afternoon with answers to some of the questions she has received this week about the Building Block Dress–including whether it can be used with knits.

We’ve been seeing a few questions pop up frequently since releasing Oliver + S Building Block Dress this week. Here are answers to some of the more common ones.