for Nora

chocolate + underwear

Trial and error ... I made many small mistakes and two huge ones :D But if I want to learn, I have to begin somewhere. This one is for Nora. I think the fabric is a bit too thick for this ... but I've already begun sewing another one from the same pattern (Ottobre 1/09) and so far I've made ZERO mistakes! But I'm only halfways ;-)

byxor

De här muddbyxorna är en modifierad version av byxorna i Ottobre 1/09. Smart med långa muddar som kan vikas ner för att förlänga byxornas användningstid, tycker jag.

They will be a gift for a boy who was born last month, but he is still too small for them.

trosor

The white ones I made out of fabric scraps just to see if I understood how to sew them. The red ones with the elephants are my first "real" ones :-)

Re-do

It was a t-shirt. It is no more. ;-)

what I've done lately

Now I haven't posted for a while. But I have been crafting when I haven't been busy working, visiting the doctor or buying a house ;-) Yesterday I made a new blanket for Zam, you can see more of it here and on Flickr. It's not a very beautiful thing, but he so needed it.

I tried a bit of embroidery. It's not what I'm best at, but it was fun. I haven't finished it yet, it'll be something for Magnus. If I was a clever girl I could give it to him on his birthday this month, but ofcourse I couldn't keep quiet so I told him everything about it ;-) Cross-stitch embroidery isn't really my thing, I thought, but since I'm always keen on trying new things I decided to go for it and I found out that I liked it. It was nice to sit in bed, concentrate and count the stitches to follow the pattern.
One evening when I was tired I also made three atcs. They are no beauties, but I wanted to do something simple with paper without having to think too much.



A week and a half ago I tried making a dotee doll following the instructions by Dot herself. It didn't turn out too pretty ;) . But it was my first try. Maybe I'll do another one, maybe not. When I made it I got the idea to needle felt a doll instead so I made this one:



Here are a few things I've finished lately. One of the purses (this one for Elena):


And the soft soft super super soft scarf for a swap:


An acrylic painting:


I also made a necklace (quite a while ago though, but haven't showed you yet). It's for a swap for knitters. You can see what I sent here. My photo is quite bad, but it's a ball of yarn with two needles in.

Pink apron

Today I found a piece of pink fabric and a pink iron-on cupcake. I recieved them in a swap and they're pretty, but I'm not a pink girl. Instead I sewed an apron for my niece Thea's doll. I hope she'll like it.

Making mistakes

Sometimes when I look around on all beautiful stuff on crafty blogs and on Flickr I wonder if I'm the only person making mistakes and messing it up. I use to answer myself "no, Maria, you're not alone, it's just that they don't show you their mistakes". It might not be true, but I feel a little bit better thinking that ;-) Above you see one of my mistakes. I've been working on this quilt like ... forever? So it seems. And I make mistake after mistake after mistake. The last one today when I was about to sew a straight line. It turned out being not straight at all. To my defense the quilt is thick, and I've never made a quilt before. Except for the one I made in school long ago. Which, actually, looks better than this one. Hrm.