2017. április 25., kedd

Trying my hands at sewing

Last week I decided to sew a dress for my daughter's birthday (in May). ( I have knitted one last year and she loves it)
The pattern was one of an earlier Burda Style (July 2014) 
(photo from Burda webpage)

I just needed some fabric.
I did not find any in the shops, so on Saturday I went to the second-hands, and in the third I saw two curtains, completely new ones, at about 2 euros for one. I bought them. The same day I have washed and ironed them.
I draw the pattern on paper, cut it and first cut the lining. When I saw that it is OK, I cut the fabric. 
Then I sewed the pieces.
In the pattern it said that the skirt must be sewed on the fashion fabric, before it is lined. And here is where the chaos begun. I wanted to change the skirt to a circle skirt, which meant lots of mathematics and measuring.
Then I thought the bodice will be too short, so I added a waistband to the skirt.
Then I had to sew the lining to the fashion-fabric, well, that wasn't an easy stuff...

There are lots of mistakes, more that one can see on the surface.
There was also some seam-ripping.
On Sunday evening I got to the point, where I put in the zipper (another hard job)
and I hemmed it on Monday. Which also is not easy for a circle skirt - but I had it done in about one hour. There might be mistakes, but Klari loves it, and that is all that matters.
She twirls a lot in it :)
She looks like a real lady.
And I am planning a fabric-shopping for a dress- for myself.

2017. április 17., hétfő

Spring

I had some busy time lately. Life with two small ones is quite hard sometimes. They need constant attention, and when the Poppy-seed is sleeping and the girl is in the kindergarten I choose to knit instead of writing.
Anyways, I had a good last year knitting-wise (or crafting-wise, to be more precise), I wrote about it in my Hungarian blog more than 3 months ago. Well, there were mainly small pieces, but there were quite a few... and there was a curtain-sewing experience for our home, which turned out really well, but as we chose a plain brown fabric it is not as spectacular as practical. Finally the kids do not wake up so very early in the morning.
2017 started with sock knitting. I got addicted to stripes at a certain point, so in a short time a have knitted 3 pairs,


and there was a 4th one - a bit different -, but I never sewed in the ends of this last pair. 
All the socks were knitted in sock yarn, with 2 and 2.5 mm needles.
Then I made a hat for my daughter.
Then I finally took a deep breath and made a crochet edging for the tablecloth I cross-stitched about 7 or 8 years ago.
And yesterday I sewed a circle-skirt for my daughter.
She liked the fabric, and she told me she wants a skirt to twirl.
So I gave it a try.
As the motifs have a vertical direction (twigs with flowers) I could not make the skirt in one piece, so I cut 2 half-circles. The waist-band has two casings for 2 cm wide elastic.
She likes it so much that yesterday evening she asked me if she could sleep in it, instead of her pajamas...
Now I am working on some lace-shawls, I have one done but unblocked and the second one on the needles.
And I enjoy the spring.