{"id":68667,"date":"2019-02-22T09:40:02","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T14:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/?p=68667"},"modified":"2019-02-22T04:34:50","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T09:34:50","slug":"sewing-small-talk-best-advice-for-new-sewists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2019\/02\/sewing-small-talk-best-advice-for-new-sewists.html","title":{"rendered":"sewing small talk: best advice for new sewists"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the Great British Sewing Bee<\/a> back in action, there are bound to be lots of people wanting to learn more about sewing. What advice would you offer a new sewist? Can you share any tips or tricks you’ve learned?<\/p>\n

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And just a quick programming note: over the next two weeks, we’ll be continuing to add new content to our Liesl + Co. Neighborhood Sweatshirt + Hoodie sew-along<\/a>. So you won’t see many new posts pop up here or in your email if you subscribe to the blog that way. We hope you’ll be sewing along with us! We start the sewing next Monday, so there’s still time to join if you haven’t yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s sewing small talk: what tips or tricks would you share with a new sewist?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":68672,"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":[20792],"class_list":["post-68667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-small-talk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/SST-Hero.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5jZS5-hRx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":66231,"url":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2018\/07\/sewing-small-talk-favorite-non-essential-sewing-tools.html","url_meta":{"origin":68667,"position":0},"title":"sewing small talk: favorite non-essential sewing tools","author":"Liesl Gibson","date":"July 2, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"What's your absolute favorite non-essential sewing tool?","rel":"","context":"In "general post"","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\/2018\/07\/tools-feature.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":75962,"url":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2020\/10\/4-tips-for-fitting-a-sewing-pattern.html","url_meta":{"origin":68667,"position":1},"title":"4 tips for fitting a sewing pattern","author":"Masha Richart","date":"October 28, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Fitting can seem scary, but it doesn't have to be. 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