Carnival 2011
she thought about herself, completely alone and up to details (the white face, the painted eyes, the umbrella, etc) which costume she would like to have this year. it was on my side to bring it into reality. it was a great fun to sew a kimono! but as the kids have been ill the last 10 days, I did not have much time to work on it, I made on the weekend, and it took I think around 15 hours till was ready – thanks to my husband that was taking care of them and so I could work without stop. And I think it turned out very cute! but the important thing is that she love it, and jumped of happiness around the house in her new kimono, now she was a “real” Japanese. I guess she´s been watching too many movies of Miyazaki. 🙂
New at Dawanda
I made this days a new wallet model, I call it “time-out wallet”, just for the essentials, to bring inside your jeans pocket to the dancefloor 🙂 – it fits very well in there.
you can find them here.
Patchwork Pencil Case # 1
This is what the other small peace of patchwork I have made some time ago became, a pencil case. I used 2 layers of interfacing to make a soft and very strong one – the fabrics also help, almost all of them are a mixture between linen and cotton, what results in a wonderful consistence, soft but very sturdy. I think this case will last a lifetime! (it can be washed, but better by hand to keep the shape nice for a longer time.)
iPhone case – Patchwork # 1
So, this is one of the results from the small patchwork peaces I showed some time before, it became a case for an iPhone. The “funny” thing is that who was in love with it and taking it to protect his iPhone was a man, it made me smile, and like him even more :), the man who brings always a flower inside his pocket!
To Carolina, with LOVE
The fabrics she have chosen, so nice! Japanese and English fabrics, and the way they should combine was also her choice, I loved them, Carol!
For you, with lots of love!
Enjoy, my dear Carol!
Work in progress
I am working on them already for so long… I would like to show you,
for kindle or e-book, or for an average size book…
some patchwork I made last week I do not know yet what they will become, but have some obvious ideas:
One more Christmas´ gift
I would like to show you also a handbag I made for a friend as a Christmas´ gift for her daughter, because I was very happy about the result: it´s like a tote, but the shape at the bottom is squared, living a lot of space inside to carry all the important things a 5 years old girl needs when going out 😉 The pattern was designed by myself, inspired in a Japanese bag I saw once in a magazine.
My friend D. chose a sweet piglets fabric for it, inside I sewed also a bag with a string for closing it better, making sure her things would not follow out of the bag (well, I think this would not be really necessary, but her girl wanted so much to have the “Beutel” inside!), so, here we go:
The skirt my girl is wearing at the photos was also made by me 🙂
I still have a handbag like the one with the piglets here at home, but in another fabric I made as a prototype for seeing if the shape I drawn on paper would work on fabric. I will give it soon at my little shop in Dawanda if you are possible interested on it. The tote is small in size but can fit a lot inside, if you need that extra space when only your handbag is not big enough for everything you need to bring along, or to go out just like this, a charming little tote! Have a look at my shop in Dawanda for it if you would like to.
Christmas Gifts
It´s so nice to make yourself the gifts! It turns to be something very special, not only for the love behind the whole care about it, but also because you can make it according to the exact taste of the person that you wish to give the gift to. This year I made 4 skirts, 2 for my daugthers, 2 for my nieces. One of my nieces love mermaids, and when I saw this collection of fabrics I thought immediatelly about her and the idea for the skirts came to my mind: the wave moviment of the water goes so well with the skirt´s shape. I had only 1 day (and night! until 3:00 o´clock in the morning I seat sewing on the 23/12) and a half, on 24/12, 14:00 o´clock I was ready with them all, and this was how they look like:
I do not have much from those fabrics left, but I could make one more skirt from them, like the patchwork style I made for my 2 years old on the pictures, in all children sizes. If you are interest write me a message on Dawanda or Etsy, and I will be happy to sew one of those for your girl!
Badener Adventmeile 2009
I became a sewing machine, yeah! sewing, sewing and sewing, shaking a bit with my favorite musics along (soon (hahahahaha) post about my favorite songs at the moment) and also and mainly being a funny (yet speedy) mama in between fabrics, pins and scissors (attention, very dangerous combination (children and scissors)! a have mine hanging out of my neck). And after all, dear friends and custumers, I have a huge amount (oh, well, in the human basis huge amount) of Marie-Antoinettes for you! But attention, there is only one of each combination of fabrics, come to see if you find one for you in Baden, at the Badener Adventmeile 2009, on 12th and 13th and 19th and 20th of December (2 weekends before Christmas) I will be standing there from 12 o´clock on, wearing my thicker coat ever, just to see you, and talk to you, and maybe have a Punsch together with you.
I have got to go now, there is a pile of Marie-Antoinettes-to-be looking to me right now over there, and takes me around 3 hours for sewing each of them! I´ll be back.
my first patchwork
it was a lot of fun (and work!). I was never much into patchwork, I guess I was scared of combining so many colors and sewing so many shapes together, but it is a lot of fun! it is like doing a free puzzle, where you chose which is the next part to come, and one which to combine shapes and colours it´s the main goal! what a great adult entertainment 😉 mainly because after all that fun, you can still use it for something special or practical, like covering your baby (quilt), or yourself (well, that´s a LOT of work), or making something small like a time out handbag, like I did. Have a look:
here I was puting it together, trying which colours I would like to have…
here it was sewed, through the back you can see how to sew them together: think you have to sew in straight lines, so first you sew the small peaces in long stripes, then sew the stripes together, I started by sewing them first horizontally, then vertically (actually only 2 peaces were sewed in a vertical way, the one with the pattern of a car and the striped mustard fabric + flowers at the bottom):
and the result was this:
that´s it! this one is one-of-a-kind, I could not make a second one like that again. And this one became a gift for my beloved friend A.M. Enjoy it, dear A., I am happy it will be a companion to your time out!
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