You win some...

...you loose some
You finish some and you start some. Thats every sewer and knitters motto!

Feather and fan lace shawl from "A gathering of lace" The yarn is Isager Alpacka a pure joy to knit ! and there´s a lot to knit...I´m using thinner needles and have to add a lot of rows and the shawl is circular! On the other hand there´s no purl stitches and there are 3 rows of only knit and one row for the pattern.
This is going to become finger gloves. From a book called "Knitting new mittens and gloves" I´m using a superwash wool and a variagated mohair for the ruffles and a magic loop instead of 5 needles
Here´s an almost finished arm on a shrug in modular knit in Drop´s alpacka, nice and soft to knit and wear
and this is a sweather by a danish designer team called Design club.

This sweater is called "ballet". I´ve been looking at this sweater for some time and bought yarn at the knitting trip to Copenhagen. This is a really easy project that has instructions for doing it on a knitting machine too.

Emma finished

I finished "Emma" and blocked her on my bed using 328 needles. The black outline is yarn that I used to know how to stretch her properly. On Anna Elisabeth. I used only 100 grams of yarn so she is really light as a feather
and a close up

Next mini wardrobe!

The mini wardrobe rules are fun here´s what I might do next Petrol blue, beige and brown

Mini wardrobe update, full skirt

I did some sewing on the skirt too! I cut it at least a week ago and pinned it to my curtain. That was very wise of me! The front skirt is cut so one side edge is on straight grain and one is on bias. That means the hung piece don´t have the same lenght to the sides and if you sew first one side will hang and wrinkle. This way the hemline is not the same at one end but the skirt is so long that it dusts the floor when I´m wearing it and I cut the short version! It doesn´t really matter but it takes more yardage. Here´s a closeup on the front yoke, outside
and inside with the organza showing. Planning to spend part of the evening handpicking the zipper and maybee cut the lining. Even though there´s quite a lot of fabric in the skirt it feels lite and easy to wear
Yes! It´s the same picture!

Mini wardrobe update; jacket

This is a full picture of the jacket and the skirt I made the arms full lenght, but didn´t really measure so I had to add a strip for the hem. consider it a design feature!
and here´s the button I´m using
3 of them. I have to do buttonholes, sew the buttons and do some staystitching on the inside of the jacket. I omitted the bands on the arms, but used grosgrain in the back.

More snoopshopping

I don´t think I have to tell you where I found theese clothes...
Likes the way they mix fabrics. It looks easy but is not! A piece of antique lace or a very special piece of fabric left?
It´s so beautiful! This one I might consider to buy!
Cute yes! But not in public...
Yes! but not for fall!
I wish I could find some tatoo style embroidery files on the net somewhere...This kind of white style embroidery I have a lot of! I have a lot of lace too, really beautiful french cotton lace!

And I love those little bows!!!!!

Snoopshopping and shopping

I´ve been to Stof and Stil today and bought grosgrain ribbons for the green jacket. I´ve done some knitting but not any sewing. I found an embroidered fabric at the store that was so Odd Molly. I´t´s really fun to look at how this company has influenced so many other.
Snoopshopping at Antrophologie I found this one in red. This pic is from Odd Molly´s own site:
Pretty! I like this one to
and this one so vintage. When I see cardigans like this I have a tendancy to say I can do it and then I never find the cardigans in the store...but this year I´ve seen som simple straight cardigans in colors that´ll looks better on me...
I think this one is Anna Sui But the reason for showing it is that I think this is the right top to go with the Odd Molly lace skirt

Oh no! not you again!

Pattern for Odd Molly jacket

Sewingpattern.com are having a sale and I bought some pattern; one of them this Anne Klein that I´m going to use for the Odd Molly jacket with bleach spots

Mini wardrobe progress

Are we a big help or not?
I cut the full skirt on my bedroom floor. The pattern said that you should cut 2 pieces of the yoke in fashionfabric and one in lining. Sew the lining to one of the fashion fabric piece and treat them as one. I´m gonna go to the only shop in town that sells silk organza and use that instead. The skirt is hanging pinned to one of my livingroom curtains.

Books are good for a lot of things!

I also cut the jacket. I choosed one size smaller than normal since it´s Butterick´s and that was a good choise! I made an FBA and let the extras go into the two folds, made the bodice 1,5 cm longer ( 0,5 inch) I have a longer backlenght than most patterncompanies think is normal, and then I made the jacket 5 cm ( 2 inches) longer since I´m gonna wear it with the blouse. I also made the arms full lenght ( it´s fall, or it will be soon) The jacket is unlined and I have problems with that so I´m gonna add lining to the arms.
This pattern is really cute. The collar version will make a nice blouse ( in the future ). It´s easy to sew!

Storyboard, kind of anyway...

This is my jacket; view C in dark green corduroi Blouse in eyelet. I´m gonna make view A and use the border of the fabric for the hem of both the body and arms.
Might add some trim. This blouse will double as a light jacket. planning to button it and have a seperate tie belt.
This is the skirt for the flowery fabric. The fabric also has a stripe so I think this skirt will be interesting since it´s a bias skirt, nice hemline too!

and finally the plaid skirt. there´s a trim on the left "foldpiece"

I can do that!

It´s no secret for the readers of this blog that I adore the clothes of Odd Molly. They have a new collection out and these fingerless mittens I can easy duplicate. I think drops alpacka is a good choise! The problems with fingerless mittens are that your finger gets cold...has to be matched with gloves. I just love the way they show these with worn out nailpolish... A lace shawl. There´s plenty out there to be knitted!
I´m not sure about the fabrics here but I like the way they use tree different fabrics
This is a goodie! bleach spots. I think it might be a good thing to try the tecnique on a piece of fabric before sewing. I also think that this is a good idea for spicing up a vintage suit from the closet or the flea market
I´m not a lacy ( lazy? yes sometimes...) girl but I really like the hemline of this skirt, It has a vintage feel to it and I´m thinking of using it for a dress in an embroidered viscose I bought in Paris
Here´s the fabric! I think I can use the colors of the emroidery for the trim. I´m not sure what pattern I will be using yet!

The fabric is not here, look in the next posting

Odd Mollys website are oddmolly.com. There´s more goodies there!

Modular knit shrug

Using Drop´s alpacka very soft and using 7 colors and deciding square after square
Don´t you dare remove this!!
I´ve finished the back/front of it and are going to start on the arms that will have 2 stitches less/ a square every other row to shape the arms.
Alpacka is such a nice yarn!
The photos doesn´t really show off the colors!

WIP

Shawl for my SIL
closeup

I think the yarn is called Mora it´s two treaded and 900 meters/ 100 g

Mini wardrobe contest

I entered th PR review´s mini wardrobe contest and auditioned fabric i think this one´s the winner; upper fabric green corduroi for a jacket, plaid for a skirt, floralfor a wide skirt and eyelet for a wrap blouse
Here´s a variation with the plaid skirt replaced with a green top
and here´s the eyelet blouse replaced with a redish top, does not go so well with the plaid skirt though...
and here´s one variation with a beige knitted jacket and the green corduroi as a skirt.
Even if I can´t compete with more than 4 items I still allowed to make more!

Santa Claus is coming to town...

Santa was at his yearly congress in Copenhagen. I wonder what they discuss; the lack of faith...?

I was shopping yarn, fabric and goat´s butter. I was on a trip with two knitting guilds and knitting, drinking beer and having fun!

Dress again! and yes it´s red!

I bought the latest Burda and found this dress there. I like the yoke and the neckline and had some linen I thought would look nice and it did! I did the front yoke by staystitching the shape where the seam should be and turn tha fabric on the seam , place needles and sew one seam from the top

I´ve done this on skirts and other items when the shapes are a little bit special.

This is a very good pattern!!! BWF 07-2008-107. no 108 is a top that is only shorter.

Strik a la carte

This is from Strik a la carte by Marianne Isager, a very talented danish designer. There are a lot of really beautiful and wearable garment in this book I´m using an ecological cotton that i don´t know why doesn´t seem to be made into a finished garment. It started its knitting career as Aberlady wannabe but this is the best so far.

It´s a special way of doing the knitting, you start at the shoulders and knitt down ward the hemline that will be zig zaged. I´m shaping it a little. Fun project to knit and a good summer top since you can actually wear a bra under it. One of the knitters at my knittin café made 3 of it, one was from sockyarn. So far I like everything about this top

Spede update

The knitting is finished!!!