{"id":1887,"date":"2013-03-27T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/blog\/?p=1887"},"modified":"2013-03-27T11:00:10","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T15:00:10","slug":"mixing-prints-wild-or-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/mixing-prints-wild-or-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"mixing prints: wild or safe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a lot of print mixing happening in fashion these days. Some of it is easy and straight-forward, and some of it requires a certain bravado. The more dangerous print mixing throws out the usual rules and embraces a bit of chaos: clashing colors along with\u00a0 similar scales and textures, rather than coordinating colors and varied scales and textures. This knit top from J. Crew is a great example of the new wild:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/mixed-prints.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1888\" alt=\"mixed prints\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/mixed-prints-480x331.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/mixed-prints-480x331.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/mixed-prints-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/mixed-prints.jpg 695w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If that feels like a bit too much to you, however, you might test the waters by mixing prints with a similar color palette, and challenge yourself only with the proximity in scale and texture of the prints. This way, you&#8217;re taking a little bit of a risk but not really jumping into the deep end.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve shown coordinating Lisette sateen and lawn fabrics here, and they could be very cute together sewn up as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/patterns\/souvenir\">Souvenir Blouse<\/a> so you get the same raglan sleeve effect as the J. Crew top. This could be great for spring and summer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a lot of print mixing happening in fashion these days. Some of it is easy and straight-forward, and some of it requires a certain bravado. The more dangerous print mixing throws out the usual rules and embraces a bit &hellip; <a class=\"moreLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/mixing-prints-wild-or-safe\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[14,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1887"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1893,"href":"https:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions\/1893"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sewlisette.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}