Hi Everyone, I am over on the Oliver + S blog today with a tutorial on using heirloom methods to sew an Afternoon Tea Blouse! The Afternoon Tea Blouse is one of the new patterns from Liesl and Co. It has these wonderful lace insets that are just perfect for using heirloom methods! For the blouse, I used lace insertion and entredeux to form my fabric for the lace strips and have a full tutorial on how I put it together. The Afternoon Tea Blouse pattern comes in different cup s

When Liesl sent the Advisor's Circle the sketch of the Neighborhood Sweatshirt, we were all excited to try it. Normally, a sweatshirt wouldn't be a pattern that would excite me, but this one with the different style lines just seems to have so many possibilities! You can choose to use two different fabrics for the sleeves as I have done here, opt for a plain front, or princess seams, add the pocket and a front zipper, or have fun with the hem treatment! I also love this patte

The weather is turning cooler here and to help make that transition into Fall I finally took my own advice and made myself a Shirt Dress! On my recent trip to New York for fabric shopping, I found this wonderful cotton tribal print. I didn't know what I was going to do with it, but it came home with me. I spent a lot of time analyzing all the shirt dress patterns out there - when you really get into the details there are quite a few differences - and I finally decided on Simp