{"id":57887,"date":"2016-10-12T11:11:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T15:11:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/?p=57887"},"modified":"2016-10-12T11:51:52","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T15:51:52","slug":"building-block-dress-book-tour-dont-call-me-betsy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2016\/10\/building-block-dress-book-tour-dont-call-me-betsy.html","title":{"rendered":"building block dress book tour: don\u2019t call me betsy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello there, and happy Wednesday! Let me introduce you to Elizabeth from Don\u2019t Call Me Betsy. She is a quilter who is joining the Building Block Dress<\/a> book tour today. Be sure to visit Elizabeth on Craftsy where she has a couple of classes called Start Free-Motion Quilting<\/a> and Start Foundation Paper Piecing<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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

For the book tour she sewed up a cute little tunic for her baby daughter, read more over on her blog<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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

Elizabeth:<\/strong> Blog<\/a>, Instagram<\/a>, Pinterest<\/a>, Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n

Hi there, I\u2019m Elizabeth, and I\u2019m a mom of two great kids – one boy, who\u2019s 8 going on 30, and one little girl, who\u2019s a whirling dervish of energy these days. She\u2019s nine months old and absolutely everywhere. When it comes to sewing, I\u2019m primarily a quilter; two-dimensional sewing is my jam. That kind of sewing makes sense to me. Garments scare me a bit. Sleeves, hemlines, all those 3-D things freak me out! But while my daughter is little, it\u2019s a good time for me to start trying to tackle my garment fears, because she\u2019s small and it doesn\u2019t take much fabric, or time really, to sew through a simple dress for her. One day, I\u2019ll try and sew something for myself, but in the meantime, I\u2019m enjoying working through a few things here and there for her. Besides, she makes the cutest model!<\/p>\n

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

Hands down my biggest sewing successes have been publishing my patterns in books<\/a> – it\u2019s an amazing feeling to see your name in print and to see people make the patterns you write. I think my biggest sewing fail was likely the time that I inadvertently free-motion quilted my son\u2019s Christmas wishlist to the back of a quilt, because it just happened to be on my sewing table one day when I was working on quilting a large quilt. I usually wear headphones while I free-motion, so I had noticed a bit of unusual friction while free-motioning, but because it was intermittent and didn\u2019t affect my thread, I didn\u2019t think much of it, until I was finished quilting, and flipped the quilt over and saw the list attached to the back of the quilt. And then laughed. And laughed. Until I had to start picking the list out of the back of the quilt. So far I haven\u2019t had any real garment fails, mostly because I haven\u2019t been doing it long enough yet, but I\u2019m sure there are many to come!<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got quite a few favorite fabric stores both in-person and online, but these days when it comes to fabrics for garments, one of my go-to haunts is an online shop called Imagine Gnats<\/a>, which carries a great assortment of garment fabrics and great explanations of what the different kinds are, how they\u2019re best used and so on.<\/p>\n

Go and have a look at some of the first creations tagged with #buildingblockdress<\/a> over on Instagram.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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