{"id":12392,"date":"2014-09-04T09:20:39","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T13:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oliverands.com\/blog\/?p=12392"},"modified":"2018-11-29T03:19:10","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T08:19:10","slug":"come-to-florida-and-learn-patternmaking-from-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2014\/09\/come-to-florida-and-learn-patternmaking-from-me.html","title":{"rendered":"come to Florida and learn patternmaking from me"},"content":{"rendered":"

When the lovely ladies at the Smocking Arts Guild of America<\/a> approached me last year and asked if I would be their featured guest teacher at their annual conference (September 19-21 which is coming up very<\/em> soon!), I really didn’t know what to do for them. After all, they’re smocking geniuses over there; I’m much less experienced (but loving every moment of it as I experiment with smocking\u00a0 contemporary apparel).<\/p>\n

But after lots of discussion and tossing around ideas (thank you, everyone on the discussion forums, for your helpful input), we put together what I think is going to be an amazing set of classes. I’ve been working on preparations all year and am really happy with how they’re coming together. I’ve designed a brand new dress pattern specifically for these classes<\/a> (it’s not available anywhere else), and we’ll be using that pattern to develop many, many different dress styles all from one pattern. You know all those little tutorials we’ve been doing, showing you how to customize our patterns? Well, you’ll be learning these techniques in a much bigger way in these classes!<\/p>\n

\"SAGAConvention\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Basically, you’ll learn some extremely useful pattern-making techniques that you can incorporate into all your sewing. After these\u00a0 classes you’ll be able to develop your own dresses in your own style and preferences and you’ll feel confident enough to make changes to those dresses to develop a lot of different looks. All from one pattern. No fancy pattern-making diploma required! No drafting patterns from scratch. You’ll simply manipulate the pattern I’ll be giving you into many different styles. And you’ll be surprised at how easy it is to do.<\/p>\n

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\"color-blocking-101\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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Which is my way of saying, “Are you coming?” I hope so! I hope to open your eyes the same way my eyes were opened in my very first day of pattern-making class. I’ll be giving away all my secrets here. OK, maybe not all of them. But many of them, at least.<\/p>\n

And no, you don’t need to know how to smock or be a member of the Guild to come. These classes will be great for sewists at any level of skill and experience. You can find all the details here<\/a>. I hope to see you in Orlando in a few weeks!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Join me in Orlando in just a couple of weeks and learn how to change a basic sewing pattern to make many different patterns from it. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10771,"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":[10],"class_list":["post-12392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-appearance"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/SAGAConvention.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5jZS5-3dS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":39667,"url":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2014\/11\/heirloom-techniques-honeycomb-smocking.html","url_meta":{"origin":12392,"position":0},"title":"heirloom techniques: honeycomb smocking","author":"Rachel Le Grand","date":"November 19, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Today we're featuring several different Oliver + S patterns made with honeycomb smocking.","rel":"","context":"In "general post"","block_context":{"text":"general post","link":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/list\/general"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oliverands.com\/community\/content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/honeycombsmocking1.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4209,"url":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2012\/06\/customizing-with-oliver-s-adding-honeycomb-smocking-to-the-ice-cream-blouse.html","url_meta":{"origin":12392,"position":1},"title":"customizing with oliver + s: adding honeycomb smocking to the ice cream blouse","author":"Liesl Gibson","date":"June 21, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I recently saw this adorable photo of an\u00a0Ice Cream Blouse show up in the Oliver + S Flickr group, and I followed the link through to the creator's blog post about the outfit. \u00a0 \u00a0 I so loved the unique smocked detail at the blouse's neck that I contacted Ana\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "tutorials"","block_context":{"text":"tutorials","link":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/list\/tutorials"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/oliverands.com\/community\/content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/honeycombsmockingT.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6996,"url":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2013\/06\/speaking-of-smocking-lisette-continental-blouse.html","url_meta":{"origin":12392,"position":2},"title":"speaking of smocking: lisette continental blouse","author":"Liesl Gibson","date":"June 25, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I had a chance to sew for myself! 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