More Playdates

The girls and the husband went to the bathhouse on Monday (Easter Monday) when we had out last day off for Easter.It gave me time to finish Sofia's Playdate dress with elephants.I'm not entirely sure about the yoke - due to how I combined the piping strips I "lost" the dots in the piping fabric.The…

Easter

We were celebrating Easter Saturday at my SIL's place. Her in-laws were also visiting so with kids we ended up being 14 people.We were asked to bring some food to the table and we made a "matjesillstårta" (as in herring cake - not as bad as it sounds, in fact bloody delicious if I say…

More Multi-tasker Totes

I can finally show you pictures of something!It's taken a while, but I finally finished another Multi-tasker Tote by Anna Maria Horner.I cut out the first pieces I think a month ago, but I didn't start actually sewing until last week.I had it almost all finished yesterday. I just needed to stitch up the opening…

Making dresses …

Last year when I started stashing fabric (to my husband's gentle frustration) I found a lovely fabric from Alexander Henry called Baby Berry.I ordered a yard (along with a bunch of other yard cuts) with the intention to make something for our kitchen from it. Like a table runner or a tea cosy or something…

Twirlyness

Today was my final day on my own. The rest of the family left for the in-law's cabin on Monday and I hadn't seen them for almost a week.I had fully intended to start sewing in the morning but it was still too hot and the thought of sitting down at the machine with a…

Kyoko for Isabel

Late last night I finished the Kyoko for Isabel.I have agonized over this dress for over a week, ever since the pattern dropped into my mail box.I had a fabric combo set up that I was gonna use but I wasn't 100 % convinced it would be perfect.I had intended to use the green Kokeshi-fabric…

More creativity

Now Isabel's got a birthday dress too ... This one took a little longer but I like it so much!On second thought I think Sofia's dress became too big so I may have to draft a smaller size and make another for her ... maybe this weekend.I also whipped up something I've been thinking about…

Birthday dress

Every little girl needs a new dress for her birthday. And if it's home made the better.Sofia's 2nd birthday is next Friday and this morning I decided she needed a birthday dress.So tonight after dinner I sneaked away into the sewing room and started drafting the pattern. It's from Ottobre Design's latest issue. I used…

New dress

Three weeks ago I saw a knitted little dress at the LYS and fell for it immediately. I was a little reluctant about sizing though. I have a not-quite 2-year-old who is taller and heavier than many 3-year-olds I know, and the sizes on the pattern went only to 18 months.But I did some swatching…

Red Verity and Not-Enough- Ruffles

I made a "Just Enough Ruffles" for Isabel. I had to modify it for size both because her neck is small and because I didn't have enough yarn.I made one version of it and ended up with 20 cm yarn left when I had 300 sts left to bind off. Less than ideal. This is…