Spede sweaters

I felted a man´s wool sweater. It´s in a much nicer brown shade than the photo will tell! Decided that the fully fashion detail was not what I wanted to se, so I
sewed a seam to make it a little bit less showing
Then I cut a neckline
added some fabric, will add some more becourse it´s showing too much
to be continued...

Embellishment and stitchmarkers

We had a workshop last sunday at Eva´s bookbinding workshop. Started at 11.00 wintertime!!! Guess who forgot to turn the clock? I did some croched flowers for my hot pink scarf and for a couple of socks and a nice flower pin that I´ll have to take a picture of Candy!

Onion 3015

When I was a child I used to read the book of Petter and Lotta who were two kids living with aunt Brown, Aunt Green and Aunt Lilac/ purple. There were also a Mr Blue. This year I start to feel like I´m miss purple. This is the latest addition:It´s onion 3015 and the fabric is bought in Kiel at PR weekend this year and it´s a cordroi that has appliquées in lace and some embroidery. It´s a fun fabric that maybee will last a few washes but that´s OK with me becourse I think that it´s also a fabric that I will be bored of rather soon.
Here´s a closeup with the green cordroi that I will turn into a jacket one day or another

String of pearls

The little island in the middle is from Panduro´s outlet and the seedbeads are from Stof and Stil and it didn´t take long to transform them into this:
Colors are a little bit too green.

Lucky day at fleamarkets

I went to my favourite fleamarket Erikshjälpen today and found this coat for 55 crowns, ( maybee 6 dollars ) The coat is long and the belt is missing. I have to replace the shoulder pads and don´t let size 10 fool you. Now I understand how people can wear size 0...
The coat is not lined and I´m thinking of shortening it into a jacket and sew a belt from the extra fabric. Anyway it´snot warm enought to wear now.

Then I found this jacket for 45 crowns. I need a jacket to wear to the gym. I took my old jacket to wear at the stable so this one will work fine. I have to sew in new buttons for the pockets. It´seasy cared for just washer and dryer.
When I found these, hardly used. It´s Vagabond I´m not sure how international that brand is. Nice and wide, 27 crowns
When I went to Myrorna ( salvation army ) Their prices are much higher but I found these shoes for 100 crowns. It´s Sköna Marie, a brand I have many shoes from, They are usually very boring and you can see at once that they are SM. But these where different, 100 crowns, need to buy a sole for them.
I think they will look good with pants as well as skirts.

And a woman can´t have too many shoes and I threw some that where outworn some weeks ago!

Ethel´s coat

I bought this nice coat at goodwill. I think Ethel spent her last days at an elderly home and that her arms where shorter than mine... There are some extra fabric in the cuffs that can be used
I also need to move a button to where it used to be and resew the buttonholes. Then I have a nice warm winter coat. Looks great with my boots but I might want to make a scarf or buy one for it.

New color

It was a remnant, it was cheap, I never whore that color and it was some brown on it så with a nice tan and a brown top I think this will work for summer

Me and Charlie

I took a long walk today and went to an area called The West Harbour here in Malmö. A lot of people were strolling, having coffea like I did.I also visited my favourite shoe store; Ilse Jacobsen and when I went to onother store and looked at nice clothes from Kenzo, Mansted and found some fun jewellery from Me and Charlie fun combos of cloth, swarowskies and pearls.

Magknits

Go to Magknits and look at the cool socks and the beatiful blanket that could be adopted to a sweather...

WIP

One more pattern from Onion and a fabric bought at PR weekend in Kiel
The embelishment is from Stoff and Stil and is only on the front pieces. Hems and hook and eye closure still has to be copleted

Yoke jacket

I love Onion patterns. This one reminded me of an Odd Molly jacket from last year but better!!. I used a burgundy - black some kind of velveteen of unknown fibercontent bought last week from the remnant bolts of a shop here in Malmö.
It´was easy to sew. Look at the cute pockets! and I just love the "popeye" arms

and I´m really sorry about the bad pictures!

Spede again

I´ve been writing about spede sweaters before and of course mine isn´t finished yet. I havn´t knitted mine. It´s a combination of doredo and spede. Anyway Inger Ohlsson who has been doing a lot of work on spede sweaters for example she has done a kit on how to knit your own and teach classes on how to decorate them has launched her own website. Klick here and the link will take you there. Look around and be inspired!

Somewhere in Kiel and Hamburg

Somewhere in Kiel

Redo cardigan

I have a friend who bring me sweathers from time to time. She knows that I like to felt and sometimes the finished items find a way back to her. This cardigan was knitted by her mother probably around 1970-1980
The wool is very nice maybe a little bit too pale for my taste but I´m thinking of over dying it.
and of course I got help from a friend...

Jacket update

UFO jacket

This project has been down for a loooong time but I want to wear it for PR europe so I decided to make an effort. I quit sewing becourse the sleeves didn´t turn out good. It´s onion 1012 and made like a chanel jacket. Now I made new sleeves and are currently sewing trim to the front and hood
with a little help, I´m using the left trim, it´s home dec but matches the fabric in the hood, it´s a quilted fabric bought from the nice lady in Holbeck on PR Copenhagen and the bouclé is from Paris
Detail of the fabric, it´s wool with viscose

Nice fabric at Stof and Stil

I usually don´t say nice things about the fabrics at stof och stil but this is a wool- viscose bouclé in a deep red, picture is no good! comes in offwhite, chocolate brown and some othe colors too. I will soon make myself a jacket from it.
Nice price too 159 crowns/ meter

Socks

Green sock from VK, teal sock free pattern from Wendy Johnsson ( Wendy knits

Stajl by Malmö

Stajl is local spelling of Style and this yearly event is for aspiring designers to show their work and maybe sell some. I saw really beatiful jewellery, but I think that most of he clothes show really poor workmanship, sad!

I liked the little girls dresses made from old tableclothes ( look at last picture ).

There where apart from the stands music and fashionshows and S:t Knuts torg ( square ) is a nice place to be, especially on a sunday!

Knitting socks

I´m knitting socks in the most expensive yarn I ever bought. Why? It´s socks and you put them on your feet and in shoes! The picture shows the first attemt with Lorna´s lace Envy. OK but if I payed 200 crowns for the yarn they need to be more than OK so I frogged it! Now I´m working on a pattern called Sheri´s lace from Sockbug ( links to the right!) but doing the toe up from the Branched Fern pattern (that´s the pattern on the photo) What makes this pattern so great is that it´s done like a ordinary heel but from the other end and this way my feet will get into the sock, I consider that´s an advantage. Where will be photos coming but I will not spend this amount on socks any more!