It´s all about the label

I´ve been thinking of buying labels for a long time but it never happened due to I did not know what they would say. When I finally decided I wanted my name and DIY in some combination but when I was ordering this came into my mind and I like it a lot.I wanted to avoid the word "design" mainly becourse to over use an I´m more of a copycat. Malmö is the town where I live, Skåne is like the county and Världen means the world.

There where different options in color and styles and you could add little motives like a sheep too. They came like this and they look really really good as you can see in the first photo.

My chemo is over and I´m waiting for radiation to start and then a plan to go back to work.
The day after my fifth chemo my mother had a stroke so I´ve spent a lot of time at my parents house. She was transfered from the hospital thursday and is now at a nursing home there she will get proper training and we hope that she´ll be home before the summer is over. It´s a little hard to explain the swedish system here but the home care system is very good and they will get help to make changes in the house so she can access at least the bathroom with a wheelchair ( in the beginning) and hopefully later a walker.
She is improving all the time and saturday she could for the firts time squeese the right hand...

The facts that you need less clothes if you don´t work and that I´ve been away from home for a lot of time makes sewing-knitting-etc low. I´ve been knitting socks for fall and this is really not my thing and the ones I finished yesterday will have to be frogged.
What I really want to do is try the Jalie method of binding knits and the first weekend of august I´m going to a sewingcamp and hopefully I have some ideas of what I would like to wear this fall by then.

GI Jane ready for action

I really love this dress I think it´s a good transitional dress and that suites the weather here now...

And there´s some details of the pockets and sleeves

I haven´t been doing this kind of sewing for a long time so it was fun to know that I still has the skills
Right now I´m refashioning my Onion goes Chanel jacket by taking of the hood and changing the trim to a more stand out way and using the fabric from the hood to add pockets, a lot of hand sewing but portable. I also bought fabric for a new jacket ( why use your stash??....) and are doing a lot of knitting.

Oh! I entered the dress in the PR knock off competition and there are some really nice prices so please vote for me....or for someone else of the nice items....

Livstycket

Every museeum has to have a shop and so did Möllegården.
I found this very nice dress made by Livstycket
I known about livstycket for a long time and am really impressed with the work they do. I linked to the english site. Please take some time and read about them!

This is a close up on the screen printed panel:

Is it dutch Sigrid?
At least I know it´s linen and that I´ll be proud wearing it!

Möllegården

Möllegården is located just outside of Malmö and are dedicated to folk costumes and you can buy material for making your own or maybee buy one.
Here you can se different aprons from different part of Skåne ( the county down south in Sweden )

Even if I am interested in this kind of sewing it was not what made me go there.
Í saw in the paper that the swedish tailor organisation was having an exibition there and these clothes are from it. really some neat details, I love the dress and chanel jacket in coordinating fabric!
The last picture is theatre costumes from The merry widow from our local theatre when Ingmar Bergman worked there.
Enjoy!

GI Jane or Where have all the flowers gone?

The 19 buttondress are in progress and I´m adapting a Burda shirt dress with mixed results, my main problem right now is that I can´t "shoot from the hip" It´s to tight there and it should not be according to measurement and I don´t have the energy to find out how it happened. I just know how I will deal with it.
I will also rip the seam on the right pocket flap that I´m not content with

I added some glamour on the left side with a batch and have one more for the sleeve that I´m currently working on.

And here´s where the flower went

There´s alot of stitching and since I´m making flat felled seams a little more to consider and a lot more timeconsuming but fun and I like the result. I bought 3 meters of fabric at first but had to go back for a little more and came home with another additional fabric that I will have to wash before I can finish the dress

This is a picture from the other day when I took a walk to alocal market for groceries. Feel the smell?

Na Craga

I wanted a classic Aran for ages and bought this yarn called Navia at the sale, it´s mixture of faroese, shetlandic and australian lambs wool. A nice 3 ply that knits nicely on needles 4,5.
I borrowed Alice Starmore´s book at the library and will soon add it to my own library. I fell in love with this model instantly and even though this yarn is thicker than my usual preferences I like knitting with it. I payed 200 dkr for 20 balls. a very good price!

Sad news

My favourite yarnstore in Copenhaguen are closing down.
They start 50 % sale on tuesday and that just happened to be the day I´ll be in town...
I got money (in danish crowns) from my colleagues to spend on a luxury day in Copenhaguen or yarn, fabric etc. The good thing is that it´s identical for me;-)
I will also look for green or kaki fabric for the dress. I have a rather large "collection" of hammer-on-buttons from various items, the ones when you get a spare one in a little bag, so the plan is to use them for the dress so all buttons will be different.
Wishing you all a happy easter, I´m at my parents house and we are combining dad,s birthday dinner with easter.
The weather is really nice and I spend a lot of time sitting in the sun.

19 button dress

I saw this dress in a magazine in light wash denim and decided I wanted one but in army green or maybee something like on this picture. It´s a Tommy Hilfiger dress and have some nice details like the bands on the sleeves and the pockets. and a lot of buttonholes to sew....

Fabric shopping

Not beeing able to attend PR weekend in Bryssels last weekend did not stop me from shopping for fabrics ( or yarn for that matter...)
Very close to my parents house is a huge fabricstore. They have a lot of crap or should I say used to have a lot of crap, I think due to change of ownership it has been better. Fabrics are arranged due to color and most things are not marked with fiber content. There´s a lot of old fabrics and I think they by leftovers, but the pricing is rather fair and last week I found a trolley with shirtfabrics, probably of italian origin and they where going to be folded and put in the shelves there they would disappear...sadly...
I bought 2 2 meters pieces and went back the day after for more
from left
Yellow chambray type of fabric
Light blue twill weave
Red shirtstripe
Brown green stripe that I had in my stash for years and made a very nice blouse with last fall, of course with FBA...saved the buttons I used tealish mother of pearl buttons and I know this will work with teal piping. It´s almost like not buying any fabric...
Pink shirting from a fabric store in Malmö
Flowery fabric for a blouse, it´s the same fabric as for my dress for the wedding that I mad last summer but with a different print and a totally different price...
Today I´m going to do some alterations and finishing including hemming a dress I made 10 ? years ago???
and I have rotated the furniture a little more...

McCall 5586

I rarely use other patterns than Burda and Onion but this pattern came into my stash last year I think

It´s now out of print, but I like it I think it makes nice summer tops and could easily be made into dresses.
This fabric a rayon print I found at the attic a couple of months ago and has apparently been cut in some kind of wrapdress that I did not want today

I did not want the brown border but needed it for the backing of the yoke and I used my mean ironing machine to attach it, works like a charm everytime!!!

I read a review that said that it was big under the arms so I decided to sew the side seams last and when trying it on it was very big and low cut so I used my quilters ruler and cut off 4 cm at top tapering to pattern width at hem. The top is also shortened by 6 cm

When going through all the stuff from the wardrobe clean out I found that I used to do really nice stuff and lately I´ve been sewing fast so I decided it was time for a change so to try something new I did french seams at the sides that provides a clean finish.
I have plans to add "crafty" stuff to the yoke. Let´s see if I have time tomorrow to go shopping for some.
I spent the day reorganizing or redecorate my sewing/bedroom for making sewing easier and more fun.

Cleaned out the closet

And there are two more boxes...and maybee some more...
New start!

Green of Envy shawl

A shawl in a colorway and style that I´m really fond of from the start.
I had 2 hanks of Lorna´s lace´s sockyarn in Envy that I payed to much for...I never liked the colorway and tried to knit socks but no love. Finally mixing it with green alpacka toned down the variagations in it. There are a brighter green to and the beige border is a danish yarn containing merino and mohair.

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At the fair

It´s been the annual Sewing fair in Malmö and as usual I did not take many pictures and as ususal the South Swedish handicraftorganisation brought great things to show




Some of these are old and some new samples of south swedish wool embroidery, the stitches are stemstitch, chainstitch and the satin stitch is done so the "satin" is only on the outer part of the cloth, to save yarn.
Here´s my attemt to do this, a style that I like so much

Lingerie revival

When it comes to bras I have actually nothing to wear and since the time thet I will need somthing is coming closer.
I bought a bra and pantie that does not fit me properly and I´m going to re sew the cups of it on a nice day... Anyway I used the cup that I modified a little and my old bra band that I liked and made two bras. This is the second bra in a kind of retro style:

The panties are from the latest Ottobre and I added a 5 cm/ 2 inches band of the grey fabric to match the bra:
This is the first bra in white with a lace that has light light pink roses

I used all lace so I could not make any matching panties for it.
Here is another pantie from the ottobre pattern in a flowery fabric. I think it matches the old pantie in pink that I used to have a matching bra for...That fabric is from Elingeria and I´m going to order some more to make me another one

I also been knitting. I bought two hanks of Lorna´s laces Envy yarn a long time ago and did not like it, but here I´m mixing it with a green Drops alpacka ( that I must go and buy one more ball for tomorrow )The plan is to add a lace border in a lighter green or a tan that I have in my stash. Alpacka have a tendency to lose it´s shape but mixing it with a sockyarn will hopefully make it more stable.

Nan Hedenrå

I think I+m rather known for my fleamarket finds and that I think that a lot of things need a good home like mine...
The other day I found alot of lacemaking supplies including a lot of patterns all marked to be designed by Nan Hedenrå. A search on google does not help, this woman is unknowen to cyberworld.



I haven´t been doing this for years but now I have some time and some of the patterns are not even pierced...
Still don´t know who Nan was. There is one man by the name of Hedenrå though but his wifes name was not Nan. I´m thinking of giving him a call.
There are differnt ways of doing laces, these patterns are of Vadstena type , in Skåne there I live laces are made on striped fabric and in Dalarna they are made on plaid fabric ...or the other way around.
In the boc there where a lot of "stars" or small tablecloths that I think I could use on blouses as ornaments so I might be at it again!

Shopping spree

I´ve been doing some fabric shooping the other days. First I bought the babycorduroi in aqua that I´m gonna make a skirt from, take a look at the Ottobre skirt on the next picture. The other two are knits that I´m going to make something nice from maybee with a empire cut. I bought the knits in Copenhagen and the fact that one of them matched the corduroi was a happy coinsident.


I also got 4 yards of viscose lining fabric and tuesday I booked the laundry room to get them all prewashed.
I wonder why Ottobre never can tell how long the skirts are, it would be a big help when buying fabric.
Aqua is nothing I have in my closet but a skirt for spring is always nice...

Fair Isle shawl

I did this before new year and I´ve used it a lot!
I always had a fear for fair isle but working with Kauni wool was easy. The yarn is variagated so I´ve used two colorways and some extra yarn for the back of the border ( Rauma Finull)



Right now I´m working on a cardigan with some fair isle knitting as well and using alpacka is a very different thing when it cames to doing stranded work.
The shawl is done in the round and cut open. It´s a ravelry pattern but the borders are my own.

DeFBAing clothes

I did some very nice shirts this fall, draping the front to make sure the bust dart was the correct size and correct position. These shirts now add to my button stash...
The summer dress that I whore for the wedding will be dartless and altered and I praise all the clothes I made being too lazy to do any FBA and digging out my empire cut disasters and thinking of giving the Kwik Sew Wrap Top a new chance.
Will start work again on monday ( Yey!!!!) and have an appointment with my new doctor;the onkologist on thursday to discuss and plan chemo. My need for clothes are very small right now but I´m working on my second chemo hat a 70-style something in crochet. I have to reload my camera and show you pics. The first one is a simple 2K2P hat in drops new alpack silk baby yarn.
I also started a yoke cardigan. I need thin cardigans for work in the summertime. This one uses the alpacka silk yarn too and some alpacka for the Fair Isle parts.

Left over yarns

House of Dagmar is a swedish clothingcompany. I saw this sweather in a magazine and did not realise that it was so short, but I did not intend to buy it anyway I just thought it was a good inspiration for leftover yarns

Sew along

I love to join a lot of things like sewalongs!
I joined a bra-panty sew along there I will save the bras for later and start with making panties. I recently bought a couple of "Sloggi" panties and they are so great!!!!I+ve forgotten how great they are. I think Sloggi is a scandinavian thing and at half price it´s OK to buy some. I also bought 2 bras at the supermarket to wear during the healing period, 10 euro fot two, really dull boring stuff. I´m supposted to wear a bra over the comfort bra that I´ll be wearing 24/7.
PR has a yearly one garment a month sew along and I+ll have my own verion of that that include finishing items and update the fit in different ways. I´m starting with a bolero top that´s to big over the chest and that I just bought.