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My new vintage coat
No sewing, but I just got this amazing vintage coat!Perfect fit, wool, warm, heavy, classic forest green and it's a coat and cape all in one and I love it. From the cut, mainly the sleeves, I think...
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Pearl buttons cardi makeover
So, despite now having a sewing room (a.k.a guest room) again, getting in front of the sewing machine seems... hard. I actually got as far as to choosing a nice classic skirt pattern and taking out a...
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UFO t-shirts now finished
UFO-time! (UnFinished Objects, that is!)I've had the bodices for these t-shirts cut and then folded and put away since... 2006, maybe. Each time I was thinking of what to sew next I would take them...
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Crochet hat
More crafting!Just finished a crochet hat, all made from yarn scraps given to me for free! Pretty much 1970's style/colors... will go great with my new vintage coat!Here goes: (and yes I look a bit.....
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Hand sewn Smartphone case
So - as usual winter means I lose most inspiration to make things. But yesterday I got off my butt (or not really considering I stayed on my couch sewing this) and made a case for my new Smartphone!I...
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New project for spring!
I just started working on this really cute classic Vogue Americana / Teal Traina dress.So happy I had fabric that looks a lot like the pattern cover dress! It's vintage heavy... something. It's not...
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Birthday dress 2013 sneak peak
Today I started making my birthday dress for this year... And not a day too early, considering that it has to be finished in less than a week! Being me (wildly optimistic, that is) I decided to draft...
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Birthday dress hand sewing
Sunday afternoon and the sewing machine needle breaks. I had no extras (how utterly stupid!!) so guess what? I finished putting the dress together, including sewing in a 80 cm long zipper... by hand....
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Finished and modeled: Birthday dress 2013!
And so, I am no longer twenty-something... (but to be honest, turning 30 feels great).It took two small scraps of amazing fabric, a very long zipper, some polyester satin (more of a lining fabric...
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Vacation and post #100
Turns out my last blog post, showing my birthday dress finished in all it's glory was my hundredth blog post here! And I didn't even notice until now... Bummer! Guess I'll have to do something special...
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The great white...
It's alive! Long time since I both sewed and/or blogged anything but it's time to shake some life into forgotten skills... Since I am about to make the greatest of all dresses: my wedding gown! Stay...
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Vintage lace and more wedding dress planning
So, the sewing is coming along fairly well, despite a few oh-I-should-have-bought-this-and-that... As always. Little Miss Last Minute (soon to be Mrs Last Minute, as my future husband is pretty much as...
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Wedding dress inspiration
The wedding dress sewing is slowly coming along. I have been delayed - quite a bit - by the fact that my DIY dress form had, over the past four years, developed a pretty bad case of scoliosis... Or...
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Wedding dress progress and details
Just a few quick snaps on the work in progress on my wedding dress! Getting closer now, counting the weeks, days. So much to sew, so little time... And so much cursing my complicated construction ideas...
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Finally, the wedding dress pictures!
So, I kept procrastinating this over and over, thinking I'd put some pictures up here when I had done more photo editing, or that I should take more pics of the details first, or after we send the...
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So, no sewing to show right now, I just wanted to comment on the fact that the blog has had a fairly big makeover!I had been tired of the old look for quite a while now, but it wasn't really a...
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The big knit blanket
So - I finally finished making the blanket! Not that the work itself has taken a lot of time, I've just been doing other stuff. I love that it came out kind of like a modern hippie thing, all colors at...
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The 'Pink Experiment' Dress
Finally a new dress sewn after the Big White Wedding Dress last year!I may have broken myself a bit on that one. (Well, ok, perhaps not just on that, considering I am still recovering from my...
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Peplum blouse (wearable muslin)
So, for a very long time I've been wanting to make a late 1940s style peplum blouse. I just love the look and I do have a few store-bought ones but they really don't fit so well on my tall and...
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Inspiration collages for spring 2016
So, I've been spending some time planning what I want to make for spring! I realized that even if making dresses is great fun, what I really need is separates. Something that works an ordinary day at...
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Spring fabrics, patterns and more plans...
Hi!Days go by so fast and still no sewing! Instead I've spent hours upon hours of looking through my patterns, pattern magazines and trolling Pinterest for even more inspiration (like I need more...? I...
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1930s inspired grey pencil skirt
I got something done! Yay me!I decided to pull myself out of the "omg I have too much fabric and patterns and don't know where to start panic" by going for whatever would be the answer to: What do I...
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Gingham Dress
Latest sewing, a variation of the classic 1950s Brigitte Bardot style gingham dress.Decided to go with the Stil 9743 pattern from my stash, I've never used it before so of course it needed a whole...
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1960s mini dress for easter
So, I have not been very active here for a while, but here goes!There has actually been quite a bit of sewing, some small mending projects and some bigger things - here's the latest!Swedish...
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Wide leg pants and making a pants sloper!
So, I've been keeping busy, even though the blog has seen little of it!One thing that my wardrobe has been missing is well fitted high waist pants. I've had a couple that I made in the past but sadly...
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