TURTLE-NECK SWEATER

Yesterday I picked my daughter´s turtle-neck sweater and I made it more colorful and more attractive… Before and after:

MY SEWING AND CRAFTING ROOM

Back in November I re-found my sewing machine... After our moving to a house I left it all forgotten in a junk-room. My beginners enthusiasm over sewing was not stopped because of every-day carrying around the whole sewing equipment. But about a month ago I bought a new serger and instead of sewing and crafting even more - I stopped. I really did not feel like preparing and cleaning later on every single thing I needed at the time. So I decided to organize my own sewing room - no matter what. It cost me a lot of time, and almost no money! I used pretty much everything I already owned. Welcome to my "Sewing Kingdom" - I will show you in future a little bit more about organizing different part of sewing room that I like so much, even though it is an old junk room! With a scent of strawberries!

NEWSPAPER HAREMPANTS

As I once wrote – I don´t like so much mass-clothing anymore… Even though all clothes that I craft aren´t one and only pieces of wardrobe that world didn´t see them yet… But! When I create something, I do not listen to all sorts of comments, which are all totally legitimate – after all, we all have taste of our own. And negative comments do not affect me as much that I wouldn´t be wearing this unique clothes, that I sew enthusiastically totally by myself! In fact – getting a comment – means something! It means, that my clothing is noticeable! And that is good! But most important is that I like it! I feel good wearing my creations. Because – if I listened to other peoples opinion – that would get me – nowhere! If I listened to my husband, for example – I would only be wearing long, boring, unattractive clothes for outside, but only-for-his-eyes: mini skirt and deeply necked dresses. Oh – please! Well – as one of unusual and on my opinion more unlikeable then likeable dresses are – harempants. I scribbled them on my own – with newspaper-looking fabric. I also did pair of them for my little boy and a girl, but they are not as wide as mine – it would be kind of dangerous to go on the playground with them!

FELTING

In February and March – we celebrate. We celebrate a lot!! Every week. Even three times a week actually! Birthdays – my mum, my 2 daughters and me (we have birthdays in a same week), my niece, my sister, my father-in-law. We celebrate, eat cakes and give and get presents. One of these presents from two friends (Helena and Kristina – thank you! :) made me start exploring how to sew felt. I was so inspired that I almost ran to the shop and made me buy felt, different colors and thickness. I started – with sleepers for my 2 nephews and niece, for their birthdays. It was easy to sew, on the contrary that a salesgirl warn me – that I should be aware not to ruin my sewing machine! Nooo – the sewing-part was easy… I could even wrote children´s names on the sleepers. But then, when I finished them – there was a big, unsolvable problem! Felt was too thick – and the elastic did not put it together, to be tightly by the leg. I did not even give them sleepers – now they are waiting for better times. Sleepers, I mean… Then I started with purses. Hand-purse for my niece, and the other for my sister – for over the shoulders. Very colorful.

THE MOST COLORFUL GIRL´S DRESS ON EARTH

For my 6-year-old, who knows exactly what she wants and especially – what she doesn´t want to dress ever since she was 4 – I made this dress. We were making it and coming up with ideas together. I am trying to impress her of crafting, so later on in her life she can be creative and explore and make up with something by herself. And I really wish she won´t spend all her free time behind a computer. Anyway – this dress was suppose to be simpler at first – pink, with some simple applications. But because Mummy can´t shut her mouth and questions her daughter all the time what she likes – the little one took advantage and let her imagination fly… And her imagination did not stop in front of a question, how to make a Pinkie Pie from »My little pony« out of fabric. Dress is made out of a pink jersey, with polka-dotted cotton application on top. Like it?

GANGAM – TRAIN – JEANS

These pants were suppose to be children – harem-pants. Since all my three children love a song Gangam Style by Psy (yes, my 2-year-old can dance the choreography of it!) and we´ve seen it in Psy´s video, the Mummy had to sew it. Out of very soft dark-blue jeans I made my first pants for my 3-year-old son. Because of the little train that smokes fumes, that I sew on pants, he was absolutely fascinated! Plus they are jeans-pants, that he wants to wear every single day and for every occasion! I can´t stand hard fabric – neither for me, nor for my children! That´s why these »gangams« seem great for the kindergarden, where children do not wear piyamas for napping. Plus they do not have any buttons, zippers or braces – only jersey-belt. Simple to wear for children to use the toilet alone. Anyway – for me and my little boy – they are the best!

THE NAME - LITTLE-PULLET PLACE

»Putkarna« is slovene for »Little-pullet place«. It comes out of my surname, which is »Cock«. I remember the game – we were playing it in school – we wrote 10 names of boys, 10 places to live, 10 jobs, 10 numbers – in a table. Whatever came in 10-year-old girls mind… Then we randomly picked one of each and in that way we were predicting our future. Which boy we were getting married, where we are going to live, what job we were going to do and the number of our children. The more unusual it was, the better and funnier! And everything I remember out of solutions of this game nowadays is – how I laughed out of my mind, when I picked my place to stay – hen coop. When I look back – maybe that little game became truth! No, I am not living in a hen coop, but I am married to »my Cock« and that became my surname too. That is why I became – hen, little pullet. The name I am using came out of my very poetic husband. I am very grateful to him for all the support of my new interest!