{"id":13116,"date":"2018-06-03T14:57:15","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T12:57:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapetitemaisoncouture.com\/tutorial-the-abena-dress\/"},"modified":"2018-06-03T14:57:15","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T12:57:15","slug":"tutorial-the-abena-dress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapetitemaisoncouture.com\/en\/tutorial-the-abena-dress\/","title":{"rendered":"TUTORIAL &#8211; The Abena Dress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The lovely days are here and new patterns and sewing projects are flourishing all over the internet. I wanted to add my two cents to all this. <\/p>\n<p>The Abena dress. It was during a conference call that I suddenly had this idea for a summer dress. A 100% summer dress made of natural fibers with wide straps and a short bodice. I quickly sketched it in my notebook and refocused on my conference call. A piece of linen later, the dress was ready, ironed and folded in my suitcase ready to go on an expedition to Asia. I ended up wearing this dress EVERY day, and only changed when it needed to be washed. I later posted it on social media and was pleasantly surprised by the positive feedback I received.      <\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m offering you a step-by-step guide to make this dress. You can download the complete tutorial <a href=\"https:\/\/lapetitemaisoncouture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/the-abena-dressfr2.pdf\">here<\/a>. I hope you&#8217;ll love this pattern. And don&#8217;t hesitate to share your Abena dress creations.   <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><em>The Abena dress<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Hello my beautiful people,<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The lovely days are already here, new sewing patterns have been released and awesome projects are flourishing on the internet. I thought of contributing to all this joy with this Abena dress. I am sure you will love wearing.  <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Abena dress. It was during a conference call that I suddenly had the idea of this dress for summer. A dress 100% made of natural fibers, with large straps, and a short bodice. I quickly drew it on my copybook and refocused on my call. A piece of linen later, the dress was ready. I ironed, folded and placed it in my suitcase ready to explore Asia. I ended up wearing this dress every single day as it was incredibly comfortable. I only changed clothes when it was being washed and once dry I would wear it again. This is how comfy it was. I posted the Abena dress on social media and was so surprised to see the positive feedback this simple dress got.         <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I am now sending out the tutorial, for those of you who will be interested in making this wonderful piece. You can download the complete tutorial <a href=\"https:\/\/lapetitemaisoncouture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/the-abena-dresseng1.pdf\">here<\/a>. I hope you love this dress, and do not hesitate to share your makings of the Abena dress.  <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Enjoy your sewing!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4580\" src=\"https:\/\/lapetitemaisoncouture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/signature-S-left.up-size-48.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lapetitemaisoncouture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/signature-S-left.up-size-48.png 400w, https:\/\/lapetitemaisoncouture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/signature-S-left.up-size-48-300x206.png 300w, https:\/\/lapetitemaisoncouture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/signature-S-left.up-size-48-24x17.png 24w, https:\/\/lapetitemaisoncouture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/signature-S-left.up-size-48-36x25.png 36w, https:\/\/lapetitemaisoncouture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/signature-S-left.up-size-48-48x33.png 48w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3330\" src=\"https:\/\/lapetitemaisoncouture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/c4fecb28-c136-4198-94af-157403e83ab2.jpg\" width=\"750\" height=\"1126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lapetitemaisoncouture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/c4fecb28-c136-4198-94af-157403e83ab2.jpg 750w, https:\/\/lapetitemaisoncouture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/c4fecb28-c136-4198-94af-157403e83ab2-600x901.jpg 600w, https:\/\/lapetitemaisoncouture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/c4fecb28-c136-4198-94af-157403e83ab2-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/lapetitemaisoncouture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/c4fecb28-c136-4198-94af-157403e83ab2-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/lapetitemaisoncouture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/c4fecb28-c136-4198-94af-157403e83ab2-16x24.jpg 16w, https:\/\/lapetitemaisoncouture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/c4fecb28-c136-4198-94af-157403e83ab2-24x36.jpg 24w, https:\/\/lapetitemaisoncouture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/c4fecb28-c136-4198-94af-157403e83ab2-32x48.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><i>Low Yat Plaza, Kuala Lumpur, May 2018.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lovely days are here and new patterns and sewing projects are flourishing all over the internet. I wanted to add my two cents to all this. The Abena dress. It was during a conference call that I suddenly had this idea for a summer dress. A 100% summer dress made of natural fibers with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13118,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lapetitemaisoncouture.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/c4fecb28-c136-4198-94af-157403e83ab2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapetitemaisoncouture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapetitemaisoncouture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapetitemaisoncouture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapetitemaisoncouture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapetitemaisoncouture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lapetitemaisoncouture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapetitemaisoncouture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapetitemaisoncouture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapetitemaisoncouture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapetitemaisoncouture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}