{"id":10584,"date":"2014-04-04T09:58:10","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T13:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oliverands.com\/blog\/?p=10584"},"modified":"2018-11-28T14:57:32","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T19:57:32","slug":"feature-friday-smocked-garden-party-dress-by-darcy-struble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2014\/04\/feature-friday-smocked-garden-party-dress-by-darcy-struble.html","title":{"rendered":"feature friday: smocked garden party dress by darcy struble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liesl mentioned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/darcyedstruble\/13329436735\/\" target=\"_blank\">this<\/a> gorgeous smocked version of the <a href=\"http:\/\/oliverands.com\/product\/OLV-OS044GP.html\" target=\"_blank\">Garden Party Dress<\/a> the other day in her spring pattern round-up <a href=\"http:\/\/oliverands.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/spring-pattern-round-up-part-2.html\" target=\"_blank\">part 2<\/a>, but it&#8217;s just so perfect I think it deserves its own feature, don&#8217;t you?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-10586\" alt=\"smocked garden party dress by darjeena\" src=\"\/\/o.osimg.net\/blog\/content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/13329436735_a6b7b68350_b-580x386.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"\/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/13329436735_a6b7b68350_b-580x386.jpg 580w, \/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/13329436735_a6b7b68350_b-275x183.jpg 275w, \/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/13329436735_a6b7b68350_b.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s all collectively oooooo and aaaahhh at how pretty it is&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/oliverands.com\/blog\/content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/13329596913_7853907d81_b.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-10585\" alt=\"smocked garden party dress by darjeena\" src=\"\/\/o.osimg.net\/blog\/content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/13329596913_7853907d81_b-580x386.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"\/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/13329596913_7853907d81_b-580x386.jpg 580w, \/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/13329596913_7853907d81_b-275x183.jpg 275w, \/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/13329596913_7853907d81_b.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our newest spring dresses can go in many different directions style-wise, and this Garden Party takes on a decidedly vintage feel in peach fabric with scallop hand smocking. \u00a0It was sewn by Darcy Struble, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/darcyedstruble\/\" target=\"_blank\">darjeena<\/a> on Flickr. \u00a0Darcy references <a href=\"http:\/\/babeeni.net\/News-how-to-make-a-infant-smocked-dresses--part-i-488.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">this tutorial<\/a>\u00a0for the pleating and Liesl&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shareasale.com\/r.cfm?B=525767&amp;U=854358&amp;M=42943&amp;urllink=\" target=\"_blank\">Smocked Necklace<\/a> workshop on Creativebug as well.<\/p>\n<p>Beautiful work, Darcy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feature Friday with Darcy Struble&#8217;s smocked Garden Party Dress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14985,"featured_media":10585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20687],"tags":[149],"class_list":["post-10584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-garden-party"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/13329596913_7853907d81_b.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5jZS5-2KI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12599,"url":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2014\/09\/heirloom-techniques-smocked-dress-round-up.html","url_meta":{"origin":10584,"position":0},"title":"heirloom techniques: smocked dress round-up","author":"Rachel Le Grand","date":"September 24, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is a gathering of smocked Oliver + S dresses. 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