{"id":52444,"date":"2015-12-22T11:08:18","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T16:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/?p=52444"},"modified":"2015-12-22T05:17:25","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T10:17:25","slug":"happy-holidays-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2015\/12\/happy-holidays-2.html","title":{"rendered":"happy holidays!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello friends,<\/p>\n<p>On behalf of our family, I&#8217;d like to wish you the very best for the holidays! We hope that you&#8217;ve had a fulfilling, joyful year, and we&#8217;re so appreciative of your participation in the Oliver + S community. Thanks for being here, for participating in the discussion forums, for contributing to and commenting on the blog, for posting your photos to Flickr and Instagram, and for being part of the sewing community in general.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/HHcardTITLE.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-52443\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-52443\" src=\"\/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/HHcardTITLE-580x783.jpg\" alt=\"HHcardTITLE\" width=\"580\" height=\"783\" srcset=\"\/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/HHcardTITLE-580x783.jpg 580w, \/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/HHcardTITLE-204x275.jpg 204w, \/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/HHcardTITLE-768x1037.jpg 768w, \/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/HHcardTITLE.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have you seen your sewing skills improve this year? As you look back, what are you most proud of making? When you have a few minutes, I hope you&#8217;ll review your year and consider how far you&#8217;ve come in your sewing. We&#8217;d love to see what you made! Please consider creating a mosaic of your 2015 Oliver + S sewing and adding it to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/oliverands\/pool\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flickr group<\/a>. Rachel will do a round-up in the new year.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be taking a little vacation through the end of the year, so it will be quiet here for a couple of weeks. But we&#8217;re planning lots of fun and useful posts for you in 2016, so I hope that you&#8217;ll stay tuned. If you haven&#8217;t signed up to receive our newsletter and to get our blog posts via email, <a href=\"http:\/\/oliverands.us9.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=8554cfdb827299443b32897cd&amp;id=79c8670a1b&amp;group[5][1]=true\" target=\"_blank\">please do<\/a>! That way you won&#8217;t miss anything in 2016, including upcoming Lisette patterns, a new book that I&#8217;ll be telling you about soon, and tutorials to help you with your projects and to inspire you in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year!<\/p>\n<p><em>Special thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aratitosperdidos.blogspot.com.es\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maria<\/a>, who hosted and made Flat S a special flamenco dress this year, for allowing us to share her photo. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wishing you and your family the happiest of holidays for 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":52443,"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":[],"class_list":["post-52444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/HHcardTITLE.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5jZS5-dDS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":63662,"url":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2017\/12\/happy-holidays-from-all-of-us.html","url_meta":{"origin":52444,"position":0},"title":"happy holidays from all of us","author":"Liesl Gibson","date":"December 20, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Happy holidays, from all of us at Oliver + S.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;general post&quot;","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\/2016\/12\/2016-christmas-cardF.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":59106,"url":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2017\/01\/bestnine-and-sewing-goals.html","url_meta":{"origin":52444,"position":1},"title":"#bestnine and sewing goals","author":"Liesl Gibson","date":"January 4, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Have you looked back on what you made in 2016? 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