Dogs all over the place

Today it will be about pyjamas. At first I've thought: piece of cake, but after a while I've realised that it won't be that easy because I've never sewn placket band opening. Little bit of googling and I found nice tutorial on Husqvarna site. Opening came out pretty nicely (at least for a first-timer): 

It's nice to win

Such a nice surprise happened to me – I've won a contest arranged on utkani.pl site!!! I look forward to sew something from fabric I'll receive :)

Tunic with hearts

Lately I've been watching season 7 of television series “Project runway” which features great Seth Aarons projects. Because of that I've fallen in love with combination of geometrical black&white pattern with vivid colours. It's time to sew something using above as inspiration :)

I've chosen combination of houndstooth with red and yellow- perfect for a girl.

Trousers for Bartek

Few days ago I've get my first order for kids cloth :) It was interesting challenge because I haven't been sewing for a boy jet. In addition only boy's fabric I have is grey, boring fleece. That's what I've created from it:   

Redesign

Two posts earlier I've been writing about a skirt that I'm redesigning to a dress. Finally skirt is finished :)

Skirt before:

 

And after:  

 

 

 

I'm trying to sew stretch fabric

For some time I was tempted to try how my sewing machine handles stretching fabrics. I've figure out to use a t-shirt and redesign it to top for Nika.

After reading manual for my Elna it turned out that my machine have three stretching stitches. Unfortunately two of them wrinkled my fabric but luckily the third one proved to be perfect. 

Top looks surprisingly good and for sure I'll be sewing from stretching fabrics more often. 

I'm sick :(

Fall has begun so everyone is catching cold :( My sewing plans fell through – Nika was sick then my husband was sick and now I'm feeling sick. I have planned to finish a dress for myself. To do that I redesign an old and too small skirt. Even I'm curious how it would look like when it is finished :)

Skirt before

In earlier post I've promised to show you the trousers on my model. Here they are: 

Nika

So I'm starting...

Lately I've bought two coupons of cotton in very reasonable price.
First one is still waiting for an inspiration but out of second one I have made pair of trousers for Nika.  

Pattern was downloaded from papavero (site which I truly recommend :) 

And that's the final result :)

Front

Back

Unfortunately yesterday during first fitting my daughter refused to pose in front of camera and she hid behind the baby carriage. If I will be lucky to get this photo I will show those trousers on my model :)

Welcome

I would like to welcome you to my blog. Thank you that you're here and I hope that my clothes will be interesting enough so you will be here more often :) 

This blog is about my hobby - sewing. I've decided to combine work with pleasure so I've started sewing for my currently 2 yo daughter. But I'm not planning to create clothes that everyone can buy in stores, there won't be any pink colours or frill.  Instead there will be... well you'll see :)