Category: Friends and family

• What Are You Doing Tonight?

  I am drooling over my early birthday present from my fiance’ s brother, D. We were shopping for the christening we have all been invited for tomorrow and as he wanted to take a look around the bookstore to get a break from all the baby stuff, I also wandered around between the shelves. I […]

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  September 9, 2012

  Friends and family

  drape drape book

• The Simple Things

  My friend Mariliis really likes this song by Joe Cocker and it is true – the simple things are the best and we cannot do without them. So is with this dress of hers that we sewed together in the beginning of the summer. She had found a beautiful fabric and wanted a simple dress […]

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  August 9, 2012

  Dress, Friends and family, Sewing for others

  beige, black, simple maxi dress, strapless maxi dress

• Laura´s Dress

  I don´t know what it is with the hobby sewists, but most of them seem to be selfish folks. Me included. Which means that we only like to sew for ourselves and doing it for others is not even half the pleasure, as Elaine, probably my favourite sewing-blogger so beautifully explains throughout her whole blog, […]

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  August 8, 2012

  Dress, Friends and family, Sewing for others

  animal print, Burda 2006, Burda 2006-5 model 121, jersey maxi dress, simple maxi dress

• The Wilma Flintstone Dress

  Before starting on Simplicity 2178, I googled around to see what others have made with the same pattern and stumbled upon  The Muslinette, and this post, which made me laugh out loud. I am copying this smart observation here: Since I have already made one similar dress before, I decided to avoid the shoulder strap altogether, […]

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  August 3, 2012

  Dress, Friends and family, Travel

  asymmetrical dress, floral print, one shoulder dress, simplicity 2178