UFOs in the skies of diamonds...

Every sewer stumbled upon the phenomenon of a UFO ( guess unfinished object? undefined obstacle? undoubtedly obsolete?) once or twice in their sewing practice...
Since I am moving to Berlin but a lot of my stuff is following later I thought it will be a good strategy to take some UFOs with me. So without most of my fabrics and maybe sometimes needing a relaxing (although this is an illusion with an UFO project) undertaking I will be pushed to finished them...
So the first one is the black BWOFy...




I started seriously hating on the piping - It makes it difficult to adjust minor mistakes in the fit. I can live with that. What is genuinely making me crazy is the fact, that it is doing what it wants at the curved seams, getting wonkier in all the wrong directions! Example:



It does look like this on too! I have no idea how to fix it. Any suggestions?
And yes, I did cut it perpendicular as you normally do with curved seams...
I am just so desperate with this one, cause I really love the idea if the jacket, the fabric, the piping. I will love to have this jacket...

Second UFO is not such a tragic story. Just haven't got the time to finish it. Always another project with a priority. Fabric is a silk/ cotton voile...




... with pretty black graphical flowers. And some lines.
I cut the pieces in march or so...
It is kind of a tunic...
I put the pieces together with pins...



I think this UFO may be my first take.

A meme and a piping

Christina tagged me with a meme and this time I decided just to be a good sport and play it. I have to answer 6 questions.

What was I doing 10 years ago?
Lets see ... I was 17 then so I must have been doing my final exams at school. And my sister was expecting my niece. That was exciting.

5 things on my to do list
Oh god! I don't have a to do list. They tend to scare the shit out of me...
But I think today it will be a pleasant evening - beer and friends.

Snacks I enjoy
OK. I think I love salami and little sausages - my favourite snack. Against common sense I enjoy fruit and vegetables in raw state a lot...

Things I will do if I were billionaire
Never think again...
Get someone to take care of my paperwork - I hate bureaucracy and hate taking care of it.

Places I have lived
Sofia, Bulgaria
Kassel, Germany
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Kassel, Germany
Berlin, Germany (soon)

Jobs I have had
Shortly working for an architecture magazine.
Drawing schemes for Italian taxes.
Serving and making sundaes in a family (not my family, but then kind of) Italian ice cream bar.
Intern in an architecture office.
Teaching assistant at the university.

6 people I want to know more about
I will just choose the people I think that will have most fun with it:

Oona - now you have a reason to post again.
Marmota - enjoy!
Maya - another reason to stay at home is to answer memes.
Ana Carina,
Lucia,
Vicki
I will love to know more about you all.

And since this is a sewing blog I will just show you BWOFy's piping:



I was lucky. I was thinking of black leather and had the idea (sometimes thinking pays off) to just look at the notion sections. And they had this perfect already finished black leather piping. It is quite what I wanted and it cost 0.80 cent per meter which is quite reasonable.
Here how it looks sewn in. It is a bit stiff so the seams are being held in form by it. Means no mistakes. But otherwise it is quite easy to work with.



I know you all were so nice to give me some funky ideas and I liked them a lot. But this was all about taming the beast in me and making something neutral but chic (not too quirky again)...

Black BWOFy

So this weekend I am starting a new project. It is getting kind of summery here but I still want to make a light wool jacket... Weird I know, but I think it can be very useful on chilly evenings so I am up to it!
The original version is this one.



It has been perfectly made and extremely helpfully explained by Tany. And there are some other great version1 and version2. Showing all these I must confess I am going to change the model - I tried to accept it, but this lampshade sleeve just didn't grow on me. And I am a bit dull in being afraid to get cold with shorter sleeves...
This is what I am making:



A bit boring indeed but the versatility is appealing to me. Or I need something more demure in my wardrobe for the moments I go for the unnoticeable yet chic casual way.
The fabric I am going to use is labelled a wool linen addressing the way it is woven. It's black:



It is soft and quite thin so I might not be too warm on the other side. Don't know what lining I will use. Lets live and see.

Update: Just got the idea to maybe funk it up with some piping. Don't know what colour or material though. Any suggestions?

Yet another update: 75% of the votes till now go for pink. Guys, sorry but I am not the pink kind of girl (yes, I know, I like it in graphics) but I actually own only one pinkish T-shirt and it is more fuchsia... And I wear a lot of black. So I am thinking maybe grey or even silver piping. Or even gold (I treasure gold for its kitschy potential). Maybe black lack piping but this can get cheesy...