I made pants!

I only show the closeup. The photo of me in the mirror looks odd. I used a BWF pattern 2006/ 05 no 134 that I added lenght in the legs to and made a draw string waist. I saw a simular pair in town last summer and I´m so glad that I finally have these pants. I´m also glad that I´m back in business, tomorrow I´m gonna go down to the basement and cut out a jacket and a skirt. I have to show you what it look like in "my" basement. The room I use for cutting is a mangel room. A mangel is a giant machine that due to pressure makes your linen and sheets wrinklefree instead of ironing. Here´s 2 pics:

I made a skirt!

Sewing has been down here for a while, now mostly due to heat.
I bought a linen remnant at Stof och Stil in charcoal and found a nice skirt in BWF 6/2006 but decided to use the upperpart from the skirts I made earlier and blogged about. The skirt looks like this

The hem has a nice swing but after trying it on I feel that it´s not 100% linen and it feels to warm right now. I also feel that you can´t see the cut even though I topstitched it. It´s actually more visable on the photo than in real life. Now I want to make a jacket with a lot of detail but not in this heat...

Copenhagen

These bags are one of the things I was druling over today as I spent the day in Copenhagen, these big bags costs about 350 dollars/ 2500 kronor. I also bought lace and lingerie fabric, silk yarn and a bra and panties from a lingerie store called Change there it´s normal to wear over a D cup and at affordable prices and the cute stuff in the big cupsizes too!
I feel I need to organize my sewing area, it´s not only the wheather that keeps me from sewing, and my bathingsuit is falling apart in front of my eyes due to clorine and salt and I know I have a piece of swim suit fabric somewhere...
Tomorrow it´s SnB!

Gathering of lace 3

I´m totally in love with this book!

I knitted a sampler of the lace for the v-neck cardigan and have done som recalculating so now I´m off to buy yarn. I´m gonna make the edges in a contrast color to make it a little Odd Molly

Gathering of lace 2

I love this book!!!!
I had to start a shawl yesterday. I´m making the feather and fan shawl and using a recycled red yarn and I choosed this pattern becourse I felt that I could end it anytime if I´m out of yarn.
Next I´m gonna make a tablecloth from offwhite cotton and there´s clothes in it too. I have to buy this book!

Gathering of lace

I went to the library today and found "A gathering of lace". It´s a beautiful book and after the library I went down to the shore, had lunch and looked thrugh my books an thought I recognized the Spanish peacock shawl!
The pattern are the same as the one my great grandmother knitted but she had a different middle section! Maybee it´s avery common and international pattern but I think it´s kind of fun

samples

I have been knitting and sewing but nothing is really progressing. The sarisilk scarf is basically ready but need to be embellished.
We have a clothing company here in Sweden called Odd Molly their adress is www.oddmolly.com and they have very nice jackets in crochet and of course I don´t want to pay what they charge in the shops when I can do it myself, but I have to find the perfect pattern so I borrowed a book called "Encyclopedia of crochet" and trying the different patterns in it. I also have to decide on the perfect color, I´m not a pastell girl. I like the teal, maybe with beige or purple.

Onionpatterns

I got 10 onionpatterns yesterday! Onion are a danish patterncompany that makes great patterns. Look at the models that are sewed at their webpage, the link is at right on this page.
I think I´m gonna make a return to school SWAP. I can see myself with a summer scedule that saw sewing in the morning, then beach and knitting in the afternoon and beer and coffea somewhere in between

Skirt and tanning report

My shorter skirts has made a difference in the color of my legs and my fifth skirt, made of a cottonprint, big bold flowers from mid 60 made a colleage of mine laught when I whore it to work on friday. She had the same fabric as curtains in her first appartment... so she got nostalgic.
Sorry no photo.
Working on my recycled silk scarf and spede cardigan.
I saw that there´s a competition on Pattern Review on sewing lingerie that´s interesting becourse I need to sit down and start sewing again, and after that there´s a one pattern- 3 looks competition, seams fun too

more vintage knitting

I talked about my great grandmother before, this is one of her knits too.
It´s a dolls dress she made for my mother who was born in 1931.
The skirt and sleeves are in a variation of feather and fan and it´s buttoned in the back with tiny tiny buttons.. I have it hanging from a cupboard as decorations in my livingroom

"spede" cardigan

A woman on my SnB group is a designer and has done a revieval on Spede tröjor. They where worn in the south of sweden among the peasant population and are a part of the national costumes here. They are very thin thightly knitted sweathers that are decorated with fabrics and embroidery etc. The name spede is a local word for sticks as in sticks used to lit the fire becourse the knitting sticks where so thin.
Anyway, I went to a galleri to look at some of her work and got inspired, so when I got home I took a turtle neck sweather that I felted in the washing machine, cut it opened and scooped the neckline and started to decorate it like a spede. On the photo I´ve put on lace and a black trim but there are much more to come. I´m also gonna make the arms narrower. More photos will be coming as the work progresses

Vintage knitting

This is a cloth knitted by my great grandmother at least 50 years ago. It belongs to my mother and is badly blocked and as I discovered it has a hole in it, I´m gonna try to repair it. The curious cat is mine.
I used to have a cloth too but it was knitted in some synthetic yarn and had a washing accident years ago
I have what´s left of her knitting needles and crochethooks and they are tiny. I have some croched lace samplers too, some of them I used for crazy quilting

pie, promenade and recycled sari silk

We are having national holiday today so it´s been weekend since saturday = 4 days.
I´ve finished my promenade shawl, I only have to weave in the ends and block it. I´m so thrilled with it, photos are coming soon...
The perfect pie are frogged, to boring to knit BUT the tecnique with the short rows are interesting...
I went to check out a new yarn store in Åhus, I´ve been visiting my parents and it´s close to there house.
They had some Drops, some Rowan, same Noro, same Colinette and some recycled silk, The rec. silk was like a tweed yarn and I bought 2 skeins in a pink shade. After making some samples I decided on doing a gartherstitch on the bias and add some embellishment after.

shawl

I started the perfect pie shawl from weekend knitting with the light purple mohair, did not work out. The yarn is too fluffy to show of the pattern so back to the bin and I took some grey wool and used that instead. Much better! I casted on about 150 stiches instead of 76 and used smaller needles. you use a short row teqnique and the pattern is fun and easy. I have some black wool that I´m planning to use for the border.
My hot pink bag is done, frogged and recroched with one stand of yarn and a pattern found in Burda easy fashion; you crochet 3 rows of half double crochet and the fourth row you make a triple crochet stitch in the fourth stitch from the needle, then you make 3 double stitces in the 3 stiches behind the triple stitch.
The new bag is deeper and will have a nice lining with pockets for the cellphone and other things
Now I have to go and get the handles!

Trio of skirts

Here they are! The first is the one I described yesterday, the second is natural linen and the third is a stretchtwill.

skirts

I haven´t been talking much about sewing, but I´ve been making 5 skirts from the same pattern. I decided I needed simple skirts for summer and I already had a great pattern it´s from Burda 9/2004 number 144 and it does not look that special... The first time I used the pattern was 1,5 years ago, I made almost the pictures skirt but put the pocket so I could put my hand in it.
This time I wanted shorter skirts so my legs could get a tan... so I made them about 60 cm,23 inches, a good lenght for me.
The reason why I love this pattern is that it has elastic in the waist but it is also shaped in the side seams and has darts so there are not so much fabric to add bulk at the waist. I have a picture of the first 3 but not on this computer. Will add then tomorrow. The top skirts fabric is fab. its stretch and has a pattern wowen into it and then it´s printed, I have two skirts of this fabric before and they are so good looking and nice to wear.

poms

Here are the poms. I´t is hard to take photos of your feet. My poms are bigger than the original and they are well frogged.
I think the original pattern has 6 pattern rep. and mine has 8
They where really fun to knit!
I´m miss bigfoot
I made the hedera too in black so the photo looked like something black in a shape of a foot. both patterns are from knitty and you can also reach them by clicking on " knitters anonomous" in my links.

New yarns

Went to salvation army late wedensday and found nice yarn in mohair 90% content and a cotton twisted in offwhite and mustard but since my checkaccount was empty I went back friday morning and bought it. The mohair is light lavender and not really my color but came to think of a shawl in weekend knitting where you crochet the border in a different yarn. I think I´ll go for that. There where nine balls for about 10 dollars. The cotton cost the same but had 11 skeins in the bag. I´m gonna knit a cardigan of them and if it looks dull I´ll dye the ready made garment in the washer.
My knitting has been a bit of aberlady, but now it´s time to split more yarn and I finished a sock from different purple tones, I used the same yarn for my poms. These new socks are made in a feather and fan pattern and I´m really proud becourse it´s the first time I tried this pattern and succeded

Skullies 2

cool or what!?

Skullies

I spent last night crocheing skullholders from "The happy hooker" in red and black. They are so cool! I did three, two of them, a pair in opposite colors are going to be a gift for my mother, I think she´s cool enough to have them. The third is going to school with me to inspire someone to do crochet. I followed the chart but started and finished them with 8 plain rows instead of 4.
Today I bought hot pink cotton yarn and did a "fat bottom bag" from the same book. The local craft store are selling see through handels with dried flowers in different colors inside them. Will look good! It was a very quick project but the store is closed tomorrow so I can´t finish it. Tomorrow will be aberlady, socks, sewing and cleaning day... and swimming or walking