And for the son...

As the skirt took very little time, I made some shorts for my son.

They were really easy to make.

I took the tutorial of another blog: Made by Petchy who teaches how to do a shorts/pants for a child in 10 minutes.

Well... I took longer than 10 minutes. Maybe 30 minutes.

I made without any pattern, just used another shorts as a pattern.

As the fabric is no elastic, I thinl it got to small around the hips. But now I know that iin future shorts I'll make wider around the waist.

The octopus embroidery was taken from the blog BadBird of Andrea Zuill, who make amazing desings to embroider.

I tried to take a decent photo of the little guy wearing the shorts, but he just simply would not stay quiet.

But he loved them and didn't want to take them off. I had to tell him that the would wear them when it's hotter.

However, he already made me some orders. Now he wants another shorts with Mickey and Goofy...

My first skirt

Today I made my first skirt. And I enjoyed making it, as well as the result.

The model is Sidonie from website Burda Style. At this moment you have to pay for the download. Fortunately, I free downloaded before they change their rules.

I took the fabric from what was left for the lining of the bag of my sister.

the changes that I made to the pattern were:

- I didn't place any linig. Didn't think it was necessary;

- And I didn't cut bias, because I hadn't enough fabric and because I think it would ruined the print.

- Didn't place any zipper. I made the larger size and the waist fits like a glove.

I'm not used to wear skirt, as I don't like to show my chubby legs.

But i enjoyed making the skirt and I'll probably do more.

This one, for being the first, anf because it has no lining, I'll wear it on the hot summer days around the house or I'll take to the beach.

It's a great model if you beginning in sewing.

One more fix

This time on my nephew's jeans.

Embroidered Blouse Patrones - Finished!

I finished the blouse and I'm very happy!

I can't say it was easy. It was a very hard-working blouse, but it was worth it.

The pleating and the embroidery give for sure a new look to the blouse.

I think it is beautiful!

I like the length, I decided not to do a hem. I just sew a baby zig-zag stitch and it turned out good.

The hardest part were the sleeves and the neckline. As I wasn't going to place and elastic, the neckline got too large, so I had to do an extra pleat in the sleeves.

I place one bias ribbon to knot in the back, so that it could accentuate the waist.

The fabric is fresh and it's great for the summer.

I like the final result.

Embroidery

As per Ana Carina's request, I'll show you how and where I learnt to make embroidery.

it's simple, very simple. I just went to youtube and made a search for embroidery and wrote "embroidery stitches" and after seeing several movies, these was the most clear one.


I practiced and practiced, and it's even quite easy to learn.
Then I transfer the design on the fabric and embroider over the design.
I use cross-stiched threads.




And I've learnt just a few months ago. Nevertheless, on youtube there are many films with great tutorials on how to embroider.

Another Craft Project - Pompons

For a soccer tournament lauched by my son's kindergarden for Father's Day, we had to do Pompons to support our daddy of the house.

We made two different pompons.

How to embroider

As per Ana Carina's request, I'll show how and where I've learnt to embroider.

It's simple, really simple. I just went to youtube and wrote "embroidery stitches" and after I've seen several films, this one was the most clear to understand.

I practised and in fact it's really simple to learn.





And I've learnt just a few months ago. However, in youtube you can find lots of tutorials about embroidery.

Emboidered Blouse Patrones - 1

The pattern is same as always. Maybe because is too easy and quick to do.

I've cut the pieces and embroidered the front part, as you can see here.

This week "cruising" the shopping center during my lunch break, I noticed this top at Caroll. I fell in love with it. It's so beautiful!

The price is not so nice: € 85,00

So I decided to make something similar. I started doing pleasts in the front , back and sleeves.

The measures used were:

Each pleat has 2 cm and 3 cm between each.

The front and back have 6 pleats each.

The sleeves have 4 pleats on the bottom and 6 on the top.

My idea was to make the pleats like shows in the picture, but I couldn't make it right.

This was the best I could do. It's not the same, but it's almost just the same.

I like just the same.

Meanwhile.... after sewing the pleats in the sleeves, my red thread finished...!

I packed my stuff. It will be on hold until Monday, where I'll buy more red thread.

Tomorrow I'll do something to keep me occupied.

Baby Bib

This weekend I made just this bib to a baby which is going to be born this year.

I'll offer to a friend of mine which after several unfortunate trials, is finally having her baby.

This was my first bib, and thus it did go perfect. And I only hope my friend likes it.


The duck design I took from website Painel Criativo.



And the pattern of the bib was taken from blog Chickpea Sewing Studio.

Another embroidery

I love it. I just love transforming a design into an embroidery.

This one I took from website JMD Designs.

I embroidered the bordeaux fabric and like the pink top with the butterfly, here the seams are going to be in white.

I hope it works.

Pouches

As per my sister's request, I made this pouches in tule. As she is accepting orders for brooches, she thought that it make prettier to give to "her clients" the brooches inside a nice pouche.

So, she asked mt to do it. She gave the tule (I believe that was leftovers from some curtains). First I did one in pink tule very olde to experiment.

Then I found out that if i did the zig-zag stitch very thight in the hem of the fabric, it would look very nice.

So, I decided to play with colours and sewn every pouch with one different colour.

The request was only for 3, but I managed to make one extra.

Here they are.

In my sister's blog you can already see the brooches inside the pouches. However, I post a photo of the same.

Flower Blouse - Patrones finished!

I finished on saturday, but I washed and I was waiting for it to dry.

I loved making this blouse and it's result. I think the red flowers give a new look to the blouse.

There is only one thing that I don't like: I think it got a bit shorter than I'm used to. I like blouses around the hip.

Next time (yes, I'll repeart this model), I'll put more 5/10 cm in the height.

Here you can see some details of the hem and sleeves. The hem line could have gotten a little bigger, because Ileft it so small it was very hard to sew it in the hem.

The sleeves, there are something I'm proud of.