{"id":57473,"date":"2016-09-23T11:28:46","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T15:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/?p=57473"},"modified":"2016-09-23T12:13:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T16:13:49","slug":"building-block-dress-book-tour-frances-suzanne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2016\/09\/building-block-dress-book-tour-frances-suzanne.html","title":{"rendered":"building block dress book tour: frances suzanne"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our good friends, Ashley and Emily, from Frances Suzanne are our next stop in the Building Block Dress<\/a> book tour. You remember Ashley and Emily, right? They have stopped by in the past to share their favorite patterns: the Puppet Show<\/a> and Music Class<\/a>, to talk all about tucks<\/a>, and to share their sewing for Disney<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

They are huge Oliver + S fans! You can take a peak a their many Oliver + S outfits in their Oliver + S gallery<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

To read all about the dress they designed for the book tour, head this way<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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

The first dress they made from the book is an adorable striped dress that they blogged about here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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

Ashley and Emily:<\/strong> Website<\/a>, Instagram<\/a>, Pinterest<\/a>, Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a><\/p>\n

Hi everyone! We are two sisters, Ashley (Frances) and Emily (Suzanne) who lovingly sew for our youngest sister’s children: EA (almost 6), CL (age 4), and LG (age 2). We live in “Sweet Home Alabama” where sweet tea and college football reign supreme. It’s a place where sewists tend to mix and match bold prints, and where they “ruffle,” “ric-rac,” or applique everything. Yet we’d rather add piping to solid fabrics, honing into a pattern’s lines, to create a timeless and classic look. We are drawn to European children’s fashion, as well as vintage styles (particularly the late 1960s), and enjoy adding hand-stitching to outfits, creating garments that are distinctly unique.<\/p>\n

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

Thankfully, our sister appreciates our desire for “simple and unique” and allows us to “design at will” for our nieces. Yet, therein lies the problem<\/strong>! The term, “design at will” was extremely<\/strong> limited for us–at best. For years, we have known of our deficiency in pattern altering\/modifying. We even created a series<\/a> (selfishly, it was for us) to showcase sewists modifying existing patterns. Then, two years ago, we headed to the annual SAGA conference<\/a> for the sole purpose of building a pattern alteration skill set–from “The Master” herself . . . Liesl.<\/p>\n

Thus began our journey<\/a> with the Building Block Dress.<\/p>\n

We invite you to join us for our many sewing adventures. It would be an absolute honor to call you our friend!<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll see you back here on Monday with the next book tour visitor. Happy weekend!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Next up on the Building Block Dress book tour we have Ashley and Emily from Frances Suzanne. 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