{"id":58263,"date":"2016-10-26T09:05:21","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T13:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/?p=58263"},"modified":"2016-10-26T09:05:21","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T13:05:21","slug":"join-us-for-the-building-block-dress-design-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2016\/10\/join-us-for-the-building-block-dress-design-contest.html","title":{"rendered":"join us for the building block dress design contest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we’re announcing the Building Block Dress Design Contest. We hope that you’re up for the challenge and will join us!<\/p>\n

This is the fun little competition I alluded to on Monday<\/a>. The main idea here is to get you thinking about the design elements you would like to see in a dress (using the techniques in the book) and the different fabrics you would use to make that dress.\u00a0 After all, the way a dress turns out depends on the interplay of design details and the fabric (or fabrics) selected.<\/p>\n

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And here’s where it gets fun. You can participate with your own designs and\/or with your kids’ or grandkids’ ideas. We would love to see some more examples of collaborative design<\/a>!<\/p>\n

Here’s how the contest will work:<\/p>\n

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  1. Download a copy of the Building Block Dress design worksheet<\/a>. <\/li>\n
  2. Review the various fabric collections from Robert Kaufman that are available for the contest and choose the one(s) you would like to use. (You’ll find all those details below.)<\/li>\n
  3. Create your dress on the Building Block Dress design worksheet. You don’t have to use the Building Block Dress itself for the pattern, but you must include two or more pattern alteration techniques from the book with a sewing pattern (children’s or women’s, for those of you who don’t have kids) to develop a style of your very own. On the design worksheet, indicate which of the Kaufman fabrics you’ve chosen, either by drawing the fabric or writing the information (name of the fabric and color\/pattern).<\/li>\n
  4. Photograph or scan your finished design worksheet and upload the image to the Internet. Then and submit your design to the contest by using the Add Your Link button below.<\/li>\n
  5. Submissions will be accepted until midnight ET, November 3, 2016. We will open voting on all entries on November 4. Then, on November 14, the design with the most votes will be named the winner.<\/li>\n
  6. If you are the winner, you will receive enough of the fabric you’ve chosen to make the dress you’ve designed!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Sound like fun? I hope so! Here’s where you can enter.<\/p>\n

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