{"id":138,"date":"2008-08-01T12:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T16:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oliverands.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/dress-up\/"},"modified":"2018-11-28T10:17:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T15:17:49","slug":"dress-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2008\/08\/dress-up.html","title":{"rendered":"dress-up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Update: the dresses are now listed on ebay <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/Oliver-S-Tea-Party-Sundress-in-silk-size-3-boutique_W0QQitemZ330262263836QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item330262263836&amp;_trkparms=72%3A1074%7C39%3A1%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C240%3A1318&amp;_trksid=p3286.c0.m14\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/cgi.ebay.com\/Oliver-S-Tea-Party-Sundress-in-silk-size-5-boutique_W0QQitemZ330262265043QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item330262265043&amp;_trkparms=72%3A1074%7C39%3A1%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C240%3A1318&amp;_trksid=p3286.c0.m14\">here<\/a>. Happy bidding!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s windy here at the lake, where we\u2019re enjoying a little time with family before the arrival of the fall collection in two or three weeks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oliverands.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pre2010\/size3b-781953.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"\/\/o.osimg.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pre2010\/size3b-781881.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/oliverands.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pre2010\/size3e-747148.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"\/\/o.osimg.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pre2010\/size3e-747070.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>In the meantime, I found this pale peach-colored silk dupioni, as well as a matching pink plaid, at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gayfeatherfabrics.com\/\">Gayfeather Fabrics<\/a> in Madison, WI, last week, so we made party dresses! Two <a href=\"http:\/\/oliverands.com\/patterns\/patterns2.phtml\">Tea Party<\/a> sundresses, which I think are dressy enough to be worn to a wedding, in sizes 3 and 5. I think it would be fun to dress sisters in dresses like these: similar but not identical.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oliverands.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pre2010\/size5f-712111.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"\/\/o.osimg.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pre2010\/size5f-712012.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/oliverands.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pre2010\/size5w-793162.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"\/\/o.osimg.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pre2010\/size5w-793053.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/oliverands.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pre2010\/size5a-713806.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"\/\/o.osimg.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/pre2010\/size5a-713721.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>It\u2019s fun to play with various fabrics, isn\u2019t it? Fabric choices can completely change a style, taking it anywhere from a casual, playground-ready to dressy and formal. And these dresses are completely washable; I washed the silk before cutting it, and as long at the finished dresses are washed in cold water (preferable by hand), they&#8217;ll be fine. <\/p>\n<p>I lined both dresses to give the fabric a little more body. It\u2019s easy to do; just cut the skirt from your lining fabric, assemble it separately from the dress, and whip-stitch the folded top edge of the skirt lining to the dress at the yoke seam when the dress is finished.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: the dresses are now listed on ebay here and here. Happy bidding! It\u2019s windy here at the lake, where we\u2019re enjoying a little time with family before the arrival of the fall collection in two or three weeks. In &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6360,"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":[20,32],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-sewn","tag-tea-party"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/size3b-781881.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5jZS5-2e","jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67659,"href":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/67659"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}