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.