Copycat 2

At Stof og stil there where 33% of at the remnant table so these pieces have a good home now! I decided to do one more bag and here I am audition fabrics and trims for the project
And this guy has an opinion about where my attention are
OK! Time to bend your head again and look at the almost finished bag

Copycat

I wrote about Jane Burchard´s bags before and when Ann- Sofie and I went to Copenhaguen last fridays we droiled again ....but this time we looked inside too and there are beautiful fabrics too and some interesting things like pockets made of old cross-stitched embroidery pieces. Anyway, last time I bought some fabrics and found some and some things for embellishment, but nothing happened. Today it did!!! here´s outer piece: And here´s lining with zip pocket, on the other side there´s a small pocket for my cellphone
and here´s a flap that needs something more and if you turn your head you´ll se the finished bag. It´s a good thing that "Stoff och Stil" are opened on sundays. I bought the sparkeling brosch for 40 crowns that is a perfect match!

Sewing room makeover

I decided to do some sewing today and started by cleaning up my sewing place ( I sew in my bedroom ) look how neat it looks! Hmmm. Where am I supposed to sleep tonight??
Well, here is one who has no problem to take a nap anywhere or anytime

Swedish crafts

At Form, a designcenter in Malmö there´s a exibition on different crafts. Form is situated at Hedmanska Gården at Lilla torg, closed on mondays.

Embroidery typical of south Sweden
Flowers from felted wool on a bedspread
Embroidery and "rya" a kind of loop style, this is a design by Katarina Brieditis, one of my favourite designers. Has done a lot of work for IKEA and other companies and is a master knitter! one of the women behind Doredo; a bok and an exibition about felting old wool sweathers and making new and cool things from them.
A basket with wool pieces for decoration
Decorations made of metal- something and paper, the stands are wood

Jazz

Dacapo

I´ve wrote of Hanne Falkenberg before and did a homemade version of her Promenade shawl. I got some of her patterns from a friend and had to try it out! This woman is a knitting genius! I started on the sleeve on the Dacapo jacket...

...and look at this edge! The last and first 3 stitches are knit in a special way what keeps the knitted piece from stretching ( as all my bias knitted scarfs do!!!)and the edge looks great too!
Here´s the back piece that also is a part of the front
and here is the sleeve that are going to be knitted together with the back
and then you pick up the rest from the back
and knit them and joining the stitches from the arm, like this
It is really very easy to knit you just have to do as Hanne says!

Now I´m working on the second sleeve ( together with some other projects of course...)

Felted flowers

I went to a computer class last week and the teacher was wearing this scarf. It was made in a very soft net and wool in different colors. I don´t know if she made it herself, but I liked it

Notion for knitting

On our knitting meeting Tuesday ( when we where filmed for a documentary on the new knitting guilds ) We talked about the need for something to hold notions like ruler, scissors,measuringtape etc. Since I use this bag for my knitting most of the time. I decided to use repro cotton Take a look att the zipper, Stick opp is the name of my local knitting group!

Sunday walk

I took a 2 hour walk sunday morning and went through a local fleamarket. I was early and the sellers where unpacking. I saw one woman having yarn, so I asked how much? 5 crowns/ ball or skein!! so I bought this for 60 crowns ( 7 euro ), it´s all wool.
Earlier I went through city windowshopping when I realized that I had the camera with me and snoopshopping on a sunday morning means you can take pictures of the windows! First the window at Nygårdsanna
She makes good quality clothes in a modern folklore tradition and then I saw this blouse that I think is Ralph Lauren:

Workshop

I attended a workshop in different crafts like nuno felting, needle felting, decoupage, silk painting. The bracelet is done in needle felting and are going to be embellished later and the other thing is done layering wool, lace and yarn between layers of disolving "fabric" sewing and then soaking it in water so the "fabric" disappear. I added som sparkle afterward and are going to make a book cover with it on. When we where finished and the teacher where loading the things into her car, she brought a box and said: - look at the jewellery! and we did, lot of pearls and goodies and I would like to share this cool bracelet:

Neck laces in crochet

Pearls on strings, the first one in natural linen tread and clear crystal pearls was done after a trip to Barcelona where a local young designer had a little shop in the Old Town. The other two are made the other year mixture of pearls one at a time in the burgundy an 1 - 3 pearls at a time in the blue. the burgundy is buttonhole twist and the blue is a variagated pearlcotton

Crafty monday

Went to a local mall today, bought a kit on sale Nice colors
later that afternoon

Work in progress

The arms will be narrower, and both the arms and the body is shorter. Are going to add on the lower crochet band, shape the waist a bit and add ribbons at the arms. But not tonight!

Summer dress

Since I started reading " A dress a day" I´ve realized that I don´t have enought dresses so here´s a new addition to my summer wardrobe. It needs blue satinribbon for the drawstring and wider ribbons to tie under the bust. Hereé a detail and the hem is uneven, it´s shorter in front. Try something new each day!!
The pattern is Onion 2009 This is a new version of the pattern, my envelope is missing the ruffles and the long sleeves.

Easy and fast to sew in a quilters cotton, maybe not the best choise for a full bust but with a little or a lot tan I will forget

Flea market find

I found this sweather on a flea market today for 35 crowns, thats about 7 dollars. The condition is really good and it´s cotton and it was wery close to what I was looking for ( how often does that occur?) The reason why I was looking was these picks from, yes of course Odd Molly

It can happen, or at least something simular

Onion goes Odd Molly

I had this pattern Saw this skirt ( Odd Molly )
Made me do this skirt
Detail
and this skirt


and I already found a brocade to make a more look a like skirt

Tiara

I know it´s not i tiara but when I pass the mirror and see the light reflect in the crystals I feel like Cinderella! I love the clothes of Odd Molly ( oddmolly.com)! They have cool croched and knitted as well as fabric clothes and this hair piece... inspired me to do this, it was a quick project, same left over yarn, a remnant of lace and some glue- on- crystals. Take a look att Odd Molly! There are at least two blouses to be bought through Anthropologie, link at right.
There where also a belt just like the tiara. What time is it??

Maren scarf

This crochet scarf is from Romantic country strik and is made in Rowan felted tweed in the book, I didn´t have enough of the first yarn but found a match in the pink. They are both Mohair