Category: Travel
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Lucky in Helsinki
I had a great chance to spend the last weekend in Helsinki, the capital of Finland that is only 80 km from Tallinn by sea. The funny part is that I must be one of the few Estonians who, nearly at the age of 30 haven’t really visited the city yet. I mean, I had…
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Chain Print Blouse
A while ago I showed you my favourites from Patrones 318, among them the following blouse, model 16: I liked it, but at the same time thought that it would be slightly boring to make. That was until I found a fabric that immediately brought this pattern to my mind. At first I wanted to…
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Happy 2013!
Happy New Year everyone! I know I am kind of late with this, but I have a bunch of good reasons for it and nevertheless, I truly hope the new year will be better than the one that passed! Whoever has followed this blog for a while probably can guess that I personally had a…
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Fabric Shops in Athens
Yesterday a funny coincidence occurred – at some point during the day I had the idea of helping travelling sewists, who would like to buy some fabric on their trip to Athens, by giving directions to the relevant shops. And as I checked the statistics of my blog later on, I saw that someone had…
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The “Wedding Dress”
I cannot find a better name for this dress, because it was made for a wedding where I had the honour to be among the guests and because both, the bride and the groom, Tiina and Paap are my good friends and I was as excited as the bride, I guess. As always, everything starts…
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Holidays And Some Missing Buttons
Hello from Athens! I hope the contents of this blog will soon match its title – all the photos and the majority of the garments so far have been made in Estonia during my three-month long holiday. Now I am back in Athens, but I don’t know when I will be able to show something…
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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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Love Copenhagen
The trip to Copenhagen was a dream. Not so much for me as a hobby sewist, but I had a terrific time with my friends and eventually fell in love with the city as well. Which seemed impossible on the first day, because it started to rain very hard just about 10 minutes before we…
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….and a few more
Oh wow, I see that I am not the only one who got fascinated by those old styles, so here are a few more. I think the next time I go to Räpina, I will spend some time at the museum again, just to take photos of all the pages of the catalogue and then…
The Late Night Sewist 