Haruni

Emily Ross did the pattern, it´s free on Ravelry and 6414 Harunis has already been knitted and the pattern has been translated into several languages including swedish

Mine has 20 rows of leaves and I used something called fyberpath lace yarn and it was bleeding a lot while soaking so I´m surpriced it´s still green....I used 55 grams of the yarn so I have almost half of it left

I´ve already started next shawl, not for me this time...and I´m using a pattern from Nancy Bush Knitted lace of Estonia called "Raha" That means money. In the book this is a one repeat scarf but I saw a shawl knittet with multible repeats on Ravelry and think it´ll be perfect for my friend

Not only do I like to knit lace on 2mm needles, I like to wear it a lot.

Toile and samples

At the LW expo there was a room with some samples of toiles

and how the finished dress looked

There where also a lot of sketches

and soma samples that you could toutch: The one at the upper right on the lower picture is silk chiffon embroidered with peacock ( price unknown....)

Gaiters

across from my dentist is a Wolford shop and in the window the other day I saw this:

It´s the little stuff she wears on her ankles you should look at! They are according to the swedish webshop ( there I stole the pic from)called gaiters and I actually thought that it was something to draw attention to the window display and asked the sales lady who was opening up if it was a joke...it was not...

A basket for every purpose

I have quite a few baskets for storage, some of them show really nice workmanship and some are just ordinary cheap stuff In my livingroom I have 2 for yarn, one for wool, one full of blankets and quilts, 1 for trash, 3 for UFOs... I have baskets made from different roots, bark and straw and I have one that´s painted Today I went to watch a exebition of baskets at the museum in Landskrona This is a french yarn basket, have had a lining of fabric

This is a french potato basket, they really know how to do it in style...

And these are called Brigitte Bardot baskets, I did not know that but apparently there are some pictures of her using one of these as a handbag

back pack is made from bark from birch, something that you could make a lot of things from like shoes

Fish baskets, remember these from readin Donald Duck as a child

There where also some new baskets made by people from England, Denmark and Sweden and probably some other countries. The museum shop had some baskets for sale too.

Kriss skirt fix

I have some issues with Kriss clothes but my mum likes them and I think Heidi would say matrony... I found this skirt on a fleamarket a few weeks ago and saw some potential. It has elastic waist and multible ruffles and was not maxi lenght

I simply cut of the two lower ruffles and hemmed the lining and added a little lace at the hem since it will be showing a little bit since the hemline is a little lower at front due to ruffle design

It took me less than 15 minutes to fix this and then I repaired a side seam too. I think this skirt is fun and flirty and I will be able to style it in many ways

Lars Wallin 2

Of course there where bridal This simple yet so nice dress

belonged to Patricia Borg

and this more "more" dress with atouch of cupcake to Amanda Elmander ( please dont ask me if her husband plays fotball or hockey....)

Here a "live" photo

There is a little bit to much going on in this dress for my taste but I really like the hemlines....

Olive

640 people have done this design on ravelry and 64 of them used Holst yarn. This is a Helga Isager design ( Amimono ) and part from being easy to knit as well as fast I took time to read some project notes and started the yoke at it´s lower edge using a crochet chain and casting on in the back bows, worked to top and making it fewer stitches as the rows went by and ended with a very tight cast off. Then I picked up the stitches at the bottom and made some shortrow stitching to get the front lower than the back. I also did long sleeves

The original sweather has different colors on each row of the yoke, I used the same, here you can see a lot of really good use of variegated yarns. T made the largest size and used 4,5 balls of Holst and maybee 0,5 of the pale pink, this sweather does not weight much

It+s my first project using Holst and it looks kind of weird before soaking....then it gets fluffy and soft and nice to wear.

Lars Wallin Couture

Lars Wallin is together with Pär Engsheden the most famous couturiers of Sweden. Per made the Crown Princess´s weddinggown and Lars have dressed a lot of swedish celebrities as well as margarine ( I didn´t know that but apparently you can eat your sandwiches in style using "Flora") Last year where was a big retrospective exibition in Stockholm with his work and some of that are now touring Sweden and is until november 4 in Kristianstad at the museum with free entrance!!!Then it will move to Västerås ( my ex hometown that´s rather close to Stockholm ) There where a lot of dresses as well as shoes, jewelry and margarine boxes... and there was a room showing some toiles and a couple of garments they led up to. And you can send your letters in style using a stamp with one of his dresses on. The clothes where mostly displayed behind a net and sometimes I got a better shot at the net

These are costumes for Alcazar singing "Not a sinner nor a saint" click here for a link to the video This is one of my favourites, like the double bodice of this

and this coat is in Silk organza, There was one coat in this style too but short made in see-through plastic with big swarowski buttons, really cool idea for a raincoat

I think it´s this dress that´s on the stamp

I got more photos and will show more later

The blue dress

This is the blue dress based on the ottobre pattern

I changes the sleeves like this

buttons from stash

and chopped the dress up and made side panels, longer bodice pieces, the closure is on straight grain and I´m really pleased with the result. All the seams but the princess seams are made french and then topstitched

French seams are my new favourite. I sew the pieces together 1 cm wider than finished result laying the pieces wrong side to wrong side, then I trim the seam, press it open and turn right sides together and sew 1 cm from the edge and the seam allowance is included. It can be left like this or topstitched.

Ottobre dress- the wadder

I bought a set of pillowcase and duvet cover (?) not really sure about the correct term here but I bought it at a fleamarket and got a lot of yardage for very little money. It was so cheap that I went back and found the set in blue too. They are never used and is chambray. I might go back and get the black set too.... It´s the cover model from the latest issue but with sleeves. I had some issues with the cut before starting but went ahead and used the pattern anyway...with not so good results. If you follow the pattern the ends of the front where the closures are will not be on straight grain...The seamstress that made the plaid dress must have had an issue with that too and made ajustments in a way not told in the magazine

This is a photo of the back, not so good either...Burda had a simular cut in the latest issue but did it without scooping out the bodice piece.

Here´s a picture of me trying to fix the front.

I was not too keen on the sleeves either, but decided that I could make a nice blue dress using this pattern with a lot of modifications and I can use the fabric of this dress for something else

Almgrens Silk Weavery

I spent a couple of days in Stockholm in may and one of the places I visited was Almgrens sidenväveri a museum in central town there they still do some weaving but not anywhere close to how large it once was The looms are jaquard looms and this means the pattern is made by punchcards that rotate through a system and you can change the pattern in the loom simply by changing punchcard Since the punchcard makes the pattern there´s only one "pedal" ( trampa) that feeds the punchcard and there was plenty of silk on the shelves The museum is in the part of Stockholm called "Söder"; South A place there my mother was born over 80 years ago

Aeolian lace shawl

Aeolian is a Knitty pattern that´s been around for a while and includes beads and nupps. Here shown over my wadder dress that looks really good together colorwise I used Guterman beads that I put on using a crochet hook that I filed down to be able to get the beads on. Here´s two closeups on leafpattern and border and shawl in blocking Purple is my color and the beads add weight to the shawl that makes it an addition for my wardrobe

Missan

Missan , lady of the house

Everybody can sew a tank top

These patterns called "alla kan sy" Everybody can sew are old in an unsofisticated way, the fabric of choise was bad even when they where produced... But they are actually great, basic styles that fit well and they can still be found at fabric sshops across Sweden I used to make a lot of this tanktop 10-15 years ago. very nice, very bra friendly I havent been sewing this for a long time and was curious how my new bust would work and I have to cut of about 4 cm at each side at bustlevel to get a good fit. I wanted to try it out becourse I used to have good experienses with it way back and I want to make myself som summer dresses. It worked very well, I used a purple thai silk, gift from Annika that I washed in the machine befor cutting and cut it on the wro´ng direction to get the stripes vertical. Really very easy sewing, french seams at the sides and som lace inside for a little extra...

Colette Beignet

I spend more time on the couch with knittingneedles and even more time on the net than in my new sewingroom, but today I finished the Beignet skirt that I´ve been working on for a while (aka "that has been hanging over a chair for me to finally do the loops...") It´s my first Colette pattern but I did my usual ajustment for big "derriere". I used the largest size and my fitting assistent don´t do my hips justice... What I liked about the pattern in the first place was that "extra" button way down, buttoned skirts usually end the closure a little bit higher, and there are tons of different skirts made from this pattern on the net. The pattern in itself is relly nice it´s a booklet with a tissuepattern in a pocket at the end. and I also liked that there where seperate pattern pieces for the lining. I bought all the fabrics including buttons at Stof och Stil, a local chain. The voile for the lining was intended for a top but I changed my mind. I used 1,6 meters a lot less than the pattern say and thanks to research on PR I could save some money here. The high waist is a little strange after all years with skirts with facings but feels comfortable

The pic with the tag and lining will not be accepted by blogger so you have to wait for it And here´s my new darling; Missan

Navy is kind of new to me but there´s a lot of nautical things going on right now, I was thinking of gold buttons first but decided on these at the end. I bought a seqiunned top I find it hard to spell it becourse it´s something I rarely use. but this one is not so sparkly and now I have something to wear whit it!