{"id":547,"date":"2016-10-06T22:23:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T03:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=547"},"modified":"2016-10-06T22:23:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T03:23:58","slug":"christmas-dress-initial-planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=547","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Dress &#8211; Initial Planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I purchased a really interesting book called the <a href=\"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/books\/OLV-OS053BBD.html\" target=\"_blank\">Building Block Dress<\/a>. Ever notice a designer sells ten different patterns that are all tweaks of the same dress? Evidently that&#8217;s actually a thing in fashion design &#8212; you really <em>do<\/em> have a base pattern and all of your &#8220;looks&#8221; are modifications of this base. Makes sense from both a manufacturing and a design standpoint. Cars are designed the same way &#8212; there&#8217;s an underlying chassis upon which a lot of different variations are bolted. This book teaches you to make your own modifications. Which means you don&#8217;t need to buy the three different almost-the-same patterns, but rather you can purchase <em>one<\/em> and modify components as needed.<\/p>\n<p>The book includes a &#8220;dress planning&#8221; template &#8212; for me, &#8220;planning&#8221; has generally been an e-mail to a few friends or a blog post about the pattern I&#8217;m using and the fabrics I am considering. Selecting different components and drawing the dress is new for me &#8230; but I&#8217;ve got my first dress planned! Now I just need to get Anya&#8217;s Halloween costume sorted so I can work on other projects \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/AnyaChristmasDress-BuildingBlockDressWorksheet.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-548\" src=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/AnyaChristmasDress-BuildingBlockDressWorksheet.png\" alt=\"anyachristmasdress-buildingblockdressworksheet\" width=\"563\" height=\"657\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/AnyaChristmasDress-BuildingBlockDressWorksheet.png 563w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/AnyaChristmasDress-BuildingBlockDressWorksheet-257x300.png 257w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I purchased a really interesting book called the Building Block Dress. Ever notice a designer sells ten different patterns that are all tweaks of the same dress? Evidently that&#8217;s actually a thing in fashion design &#8212; you really do have a base pattern and all of your &#8220;looks&#8221; are modifications of this base. Makes sense &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,4,8],"class_list":["post-547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sewing","tag-crafts","tag-sewing-2","tag-wip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":549,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}