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Before we took our holiday break, we asked you to look back on the year and to add your 2014 Oliver + S sewing photo mosaics to the Flickr group<\/a>, if you haven\u2019t already. Mosaic Maker<\/a> is an easy tool to use to create photo mosaics. We will be having a 2014 mosaic post very soon.<\/p>\n Now that we’re into the new year, I’m curious what your sewing plans are for 2015. To give you some motivation to start your planning (if you haven’t already), I took a few minutes this morning to look back at our most popular blog posts from last year and at the patterns we released in 2014. Here are some things that caught my eye. I hope you’ll find some inspiration here to get you excited about sewing this month.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Free Patterns and Tutorials<\/strong><\/p>\n The Sunny Days Shorts pattern<\/a> for boys and girls was our first free pattern of the year. We followed it up with the Onstage Tutu Skirt<\/a> for girls and their dolls.<\/p>\n Bias binding<\/a> was a popular theme last year, and many of you referred to our tutorials on making bias binding as well as applying it to your sewing projects.<\/p>\n Rachel’s skirt for 18″ dolls<\/a> has been enormously popular with those of you who sew for American Girl dolls. (I love that this tutorial uses a pattern piece from another of our free patterns, the Bucket Hat<\/a> from my book, Little Things to Sew<\/a>.)<\/p>\n Adding piping or trim to a sleeve edge<\/a> gives a sleeve a whole new look, doesn’t it?<\/p>\n We did a whole series of posts on customizing the Field Trip Raglan Tee<\/a> for a wide variety of looks. For the posts themselves see here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Speaking of customizing, 14 things to do with our basic Tee patterns<\/a> was also a very popular post. I followed that with a tutorial for making the color-blocked A-line T-shirt<\/a>. I’ve seen many versions of this tee, and they all look great!<\/p>\n 15 Tips for fitting a muslin<\/a>, which links back to an older post about how to make a muslin generated a lot of traffic, which makes me so happy because I know you’re starting to tackle any fears of fitting!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sarvi wrote a wonderful series on preserving a sewing pattern which you can find here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n And speaking of contributing posts, many of you also contributed to our Customizing with Oliver + S<\/a> series, and we’re so grateful for your participation! It’s really wonderful to see what you make with our patterns and how you make them your own. I love that this blog has become a knowledge bank for the sewing community. Thank you for being part of it.<\/p>\n Inspiration<\/strong><\/p>\n We started quite a few new blog series in 2014 including our wardrobe edit series<\/a>, our color palette series<\/a>, the Ask Me<\/a> series, and Rachel assembled round-ups<\/a> of many of your sewing projects. (I suppose it’s no surprise that the Elsa dress round-up<\/a> was an extremely popular post, especially around Halloween.) I know many of you also visit our Flickr group<\/a> on a regular basis for gathering inspiration. And of course we’re all addicted to Pinterest<\/a>, where some of our most popular boards are Customizing with Oliver + S<\/a> and Liesl + Co. pattern styling ideas<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n New Patterns<\/strong><\/p>\n We debuted a few new patterns in 2014. Goodness, did we ever! Including the free patterns, we released a record seventeen new patterns, to be exact. (That makes me tired, just thinking about it.) Last spring we released our Lullaby Layette pattern<\/a>, which many of you were thrilled to sew for babies.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n For the kids, we released our Hide-and-Seek Dress +\u00a0 Tunic<\/a> as well as the Garden Party Dress + Blouse<\/a> patterns. We also released the School Bus T-shirt<\/a> pattern as a digital-only pattern. This past fall we released our Lunch Box Tee + Culottes<\/a> pattern as well as the Carousel Dress<\/a> pattern. So that’s kept many of you busy.<\/p>\n For the grown-ups, we debuted our very first men’s pattern, the Metro Tee<\/a>, which was accompanied by the women’s Metro Tee<\/a>. Those releases coincided with the launch of our Liesl + Co. Cappuccino Dress<\/a>, which continues to be enormously popular.<\/p>\n Our Liesl + Co. pattern offerings continued to expand with the release last fall of the wildly popular Cinema Dress<\/a> (the women’s version of the Hide-and-Seek Dress), our classic semi-fitted Bistro Dress<\/a>, the Girl Friday Culottes<\/a> and the boxy Bento Tee<\/a>. We also started hosting sew-alongs for many of our patterns, which is something we hadn’t done before.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n On the Lisette side of things, we released the very sweet and versatile Round Trip Dress and Jacket<\/a>. I know, you love the dress. Personally, I love the jacket and get loads of compliments on it every time I wear mine.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n