Squirrel Pillow 1/2

Birthday Dress....

... I guess she will fit in it this summer...so must figure out a cool new birthday outfit for her SOON!!

BIG NOTE TO SELF:
MUST DO SOME FITTING SESSIONS BEFORE SEWING EVERYTHING

Christmas Dress

..but not only wearable during Christmas



INGREDIENTS

Pattern: Farbenmix Xenia
Fabric: Michael Miller Pet Deer Brown
Gingham squares pink/brown
Gingham squares green/brown

Mothersday present

so if you thought that scrapbooking was already a bottomless pit for spending your money... please don't make sewing your new hobby!
I recently discoverd this great webshop with only japanese import fabrics and patternbooks... well...what can I say, take a look for yourself on
www.superbuzzy.com for some of the cutest fabric prints in the whole wide world!

I expect to receive this cool mother/daughter patternbook any day now, isn't this the cutest (corniest) mothersday gift you can think of? I know it will make daddy really happy to see his wife and daughter in a matching outfit....

Are you hungry?

You will be after looking at this gorgeous kimono dress (Farbenmix Pattern Pearl).




My personal model wasn't too happy about the design though and refused to stand up for mommy so she could make a proper picture of the dress....



When she finally got up she did everything she could to hide the dress from the camera....



Fabric by Robert Kaufman, ordered HERE.

Is this cute or is it cute?

For me

I make stuff for me too... and lately I am in love with black and white combinations :-)



Pattern is by Farbenmix (Frida). Click HERE for more "designbeispiele" :-).
I like my version best...obviously.

Fabric is by Alexander Henry called "Roboskulls" & "Paseo de los Muertos"

The solution...

... for having enough time to cut, paint, glue, tare any piece of paper or fabric is winning the lottery and quiting your job....
At the moment, this is my favorite fantasy :-).
My current frustration is that with the time I have left between mothering and working I have to choose between paper and fabric. Because I am still learning it's logical to choose fabric, because practice makes perfect. In the meanwhile my head is overflowing with ideas for scrapping, atc's etcetera... but then... how can I resist those prints? NEED MORE TIME....NOW!



Fabric rules.... Check out www.fabricparadise.com for example, I guarantee you will start to make up all kinds of excuses, so that you can order just a few yards of cool fabric. Come on... you know you want it!

Still alive....

... very much alive indeed. I was just bloghopping and read the following:

i need to start posting more often. i think i get caught up in all the things i could or should be sharing and get overwhelmed.

It so stupid that I simply don't take the time to blog once in a while, because I do love it. It is very comforting though that there are (a lot!) of people who have the same "problem".

What I have been doing the last month? What do you think?


For this dress I used the same pattern as for Bincke's birthday dress and the Duckie dress. The fabric with the print is (again!) from Alexander Henry called "The Perfect Pattern".

This cutie dress was sewn as a present for a little baby girl, born on the first day of Christmas...


Sooo...I have been enjoying myself, have been sick for almost a week too.
Have booked a great vacation: we will be staying in a house in Dahab, Egypt for 2 weeks in June :-)...yay! No mass tourism here, which is good, very good!!
Besides snorkeling...I won't be doing anything here :-), except petting the occasional camel or goat that comes by our house haha...
Googling Dahab I found someone saying:

"Dahab - Tourist trap at the Red Sea. It took us 30 days to escape."

:-))))))
I soooo can't wait until its June!
Did you already book your holiday?

13 months....

already! Her first birthday was not as much fun as I hoped and I won't discuss details here, but sometimes family can be such a pain the ass!
Luckily for her she too young to realize what a stupid birthday it was and
her first year here on earth will be remembered forever with this dress I made her. I am sure she will treasure it when she's old and grey :-) and I will lie to her about her wonderful 1st birthday party :-).

MASTERPIECE

it took me like 16 hours to make this one....after a Donna Karen Vogue Pattern...





and now I lost some weight (yay!) and it is TOO BIG!!
Anyone interested?

Do you remember....

.... the comforting sound of a sewing machine from when you were young and your mother sitting behind the machine, doing all these magical things with it?
I can't tell you how happy I am that the sewing machine is no longer a mystery to me, but a great tool that I can use to make the most adorable clothing for my little girl.
Like this (I used THIS tutorial to make it):



and this:



and my masterpiece for her until now... a fantastic 1st birthday dress:



I can tell you... it's ADDICTIVE!

HELP! I'm turning into a fabric junkie!

Taking sewing lessons is one thing...but before you know it..you find yourself scanning the web for hours for (free) sewing patterns and, worse, online fabric shops!
I have already ordered a few yard at Buy Fabrics Online, a webshop totally dedicated to the amazing prints of Alexander Henry Fabrics. Fast service and although the cotton is not really high (thick) quality, the cool prints make up for that!

I want to order some fabric at Reprodepot. Take a look and see the cuteness of all those japanese prints! aarrhghghghgh....
My advice for shopping here: don't forget NOT to look at the prices...just order and don't look at your creditcard receipt.

I tell myself everytime that instead of hoarding yards and yards of fabric I MUST actually make stuff with it before ordering some more.
Am trying here not to make the same mistake as I did with scrapbookpaper..
hoarding sucks! I have soooo much scrapbookpaper... I will never finish it!
Anyone recognize the problem?

I CAN SEW!!

I CAN SEW!!I CAN SEW!!I CAN SEW!!I CAN SEW!!
I CAN SEW!!I CAN SEW!!I CAN SEW!!I CAN SEW!!



I subscribed to a 3 day sewing workshop in Amsterdam here and I had a great day!

Sewing Project for Baby

Since THIS PROJECT failed because I have absolutely NO sewing experience whatsoever, I enthusiastically started a new one LOL!
But I just learned from my colleague who can actually sew that I have to finish it by hand.. hey..that they didn't say that in the pattern!
So now it lying here waiting to be finished... not sure when I am going to get to that!

I feel...

... a new addiction coming up :-)