The time has come for you to choose the winner in the Building Block Dress Design Contest. View this post to cast your vote. Voting ends on November 13.

See what Emily made using the Lisette for Butterick B6244 coat pattern. It’s beautiful!

Thanks to all the feedback and suggestions you provided, we’ve enhanced sewingtranslator.com to be even more useful. Here are some of the new features.

We’re down to the final day to submit your entries for the Building Block Dress design contest so don’t delay submitting your entry!

There are almost 35 thousand photos in the Oliver + S Patterns Flickr group. Come and take a look. It’s a treasury of inspiration!

Thanks to Sarvi we have a cute tutorial on how to make a heart-shaped cut-out back. It looks lovely on the Oliver + S Fairy Tale Dress.

Please share your costumes sewn using Oliver + S patterns by adding them to our costume linky party. It’s a fun way to let people share and see what everyone else has made.

For this addition of Sew + Tell we have Nadina sharing and talking about the Lisette for Butterick B6169 Moto Jacket that she sewed for herself.

Here is a lot of colorful eye candy for you today. Be inspired by the Pantone fall 2016 colors for your Oliver + S sewing.

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.

Thanks to Lisa we have a nice tutorial on how to do English paper piecing. In looks fantastic on the yoke and pockets of the Oliver + S Ice Cream Dress.

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.