{"id":66865,"date":"2018-09-19T02:37:34","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T06:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/?p=66865"},"modified":"2018-09-19T19:22:54","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T23:22:54","slug":"what-you-missed-over-the-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2018\/09\/what-you-missed-over-the-summer.html","title":{"rendered":"what you missed over the summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you have a good summer? I know summer gets really busy and people aren\u2019t in front of their computers as much. So we decided to do a summer post round-up, a recap of our best summer blog posts you might have missed due to vacation, travel, etc.<\/p>\n<p>We had many fantastic tutorials including: <a href=\"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2018\/06\/liesl-co-recital-shirt-with-ruffles.html\">Adding Ruffles to the Liesl + Co. Recital Shirt<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2018\/07\/chai-tee-dress-and-tunic.html\">Turning the Liesl + Co. Chai Tee into a Dress or Tunic<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/summersidebyside1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-66914\" src=\"\/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/summersidebyside1-760x522.jpg\" alt=\"sewing tutorials\" width=\"760\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"\/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/summersidebyside1-760x522.jpg 760w, \/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/summersidebyside1-500x343.jpg 500w, \/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/summersidebyside1-768x527.jpg 768w, \/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/summersidebyside1-1240x649.jpg 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2018\/08\/ballet-wrap-cardigan.html\">Ballet Wrap Cardigan<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2018\/08\/embroidery-using-a-regular-sewing-machine.html\">Embroidery Using a Regular Sewing Machine<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/summersidebyside2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-66915\" src=\"\/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/summersidebyside2-760x591.jpg\" alt=\"sewing tutorials\" width=\"760\" height=\"591\" srcset=\"\/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/summersidebyside2-760x591.jpg 760w, \/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/summersidebyside2-500x389.jpg 500w, \/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/summersidebyside2-768x598.jpg 768w, \/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/summersidebyside2-1240x649.jpg 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2018\/07\/nine-tutorials-for-button-shirts.html\">9 Tutorials for Button Shirts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2018\/08\/fourteen-tutorials-for-sleeves.html\">14 Tutorials for Sleeves<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/summersidebyside3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-66916\" src=\"\/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/summersidebyside3-760x400.jpg\" alt=\"sewing tutorials\" width=\"760\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"\/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/summersidebyside3-760x400.jpg 760w, \/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/summersidebyside3-500x263.jpg 500w, \/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/summersidebyside3-768x404.jpg 768w, \/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/summersidebyside3-1240x649.jpg 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2018\/08\/how-to-raise-or-lower-a-dart.html\">How to Raise or Lower a Dart<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/dart-image-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-66588\" src=\"\/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/dart-image-2-760x1161.jpg\" alt=\"How to Raise or Lower a Dart\" width=\"760\" height=\"1161\" srcset=\"\/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/dart-image-2-760x1161.jpg 760w, \/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/dart-image-2-500x764.jpg 500w, \/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/dart-image-2-768x1174.jpg 768w, \/\/o.osimg.net\/community\/content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/dart-image-2-1240x649.jpg 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 760px) 100vw, 760px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We also featured several US cities in our <a href=\"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/labels\/fabric-shopping\">fabric shopping series<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2018\/06\/fabric-shopping-in-san-francisco.html\">San Francisco<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2018\/06\/fabric-shopping-in-atlanta.html\">Atlanta<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2018\/07\/fabric-shopping-in-phoenix.html\">Phoenix<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2018\/08\/fabric-shopping-in-seattle.html\">Seattle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2018\/08\/fabric-shopping-in-the-washington-d-c-area.html\">Washington DC<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Enjoy catching up and happy reading!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Were you busy over the summer with vacation and travel? If you weren&#8217;t in front of your computer much this summer, have no fear, we rounded up our best summer blog posts for you. Come and have a look to see what you missed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7455,"featured_media":66525,"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-66865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/sleevetutsF.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5jZS5-hot","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":62243,"url":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2017\/08\/summer-vacation.html","url_meta":{"origin":66865,"position":0},"title":"summer vacation","author":"Liesl Gibson","date":"August 9, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"We're taking most of the rest of the month of August off. 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