Circle Skirt

You know right now I am all for simple and quick patterns. I do not have any time at all actually. Sewing time is lost sleeping time. So instant gratification and a quick, please, not too much thinking involving stuff is the one I love.


On the other side I know well when Oona wrote she is not that much in love with cheap fabric any more. I was thinking this is something that happens to everyone who is getting more advanced in sewing. The excitement of I''ve made this bag all alone! is wearing off a bit and one starts to be more critical. Like "Now I want something that HM don't have for less that my fabric cost!". And "I want that my time spent on it to really pay off" (I don't mean the occasional wadder - it is part of the process).

So virtual dialog over I think that this kind of transformation happend to me like two years ago when I got obsessed with silk. I will scan shops and Ebay on cheap silk (buying full price is no fun) and be really euphoric when I happen to get some. Honestly I am more of collecting it since I mostly don't dare making it into a garment being afraid not to ruin it. Since I have my little baby girl I am even worst. Few weeks ago I cleaned my stash (never enough storage space here somehow) and threw away everything that is pure or mostly poly.

It felt liberating. But that is maybe mostly cause there is less fabric needed to be sewn. No time you know.

Hmmmmm, honestly I am still buying fabric, so there is actually not less fabric to be sewn.

Anyway.

I will post the pattern tutorial first and a sew together next. There might be some spelling mistakes in the tutorial I will have to check them later and than I will make a pdf too. Still if you download the image it is readable.

The pillow cases

I have some baby stuff I intend to post, but right now I fill like the pillow post.

I have done some baby sewing for K lately with the intention of making a Dawanda  -Etsy- toddler baby-cloths-shops (long phrase, ah?). Lets see when this project will happen... 


I am not particularly far kind of doing the same leggings with skirt pattern all the time. I want to get it really neat and test different colours. She already has four of them. And then friends twins had their third birthday and I made them really girly versions I forgot to photograph and must ask for photos of. These were soo large with 116 sizing and I didn't had a leggings pattern. So it took too much precious evening time completing. 
Now I've written unintentionally too much already about the baby stuff, so here one out of fokus photo: 

More in the next post.



So maybe you are thinking " aaah? what was that with the pillow post?". Yes. I really needed to do something fun and chic. And I wanted some new covers for three sofa pillows. The last ones are absolutely formless unintelligible blobs made 4 days before birth in a last minute frenzy:

Hehe. Ugly.

I have some scraps left of this cool ikea fabric I've made the living room curtains of.

So I thought I will cut some animals out and make them some nice triangulated landscape to dwell in.

I drew directly on the fabric and stitched it immediately on.

The finished product (and there is some thread I didn't clean up for the  photo...):

I feel I went a step to far. It might be too much with the straight lines for the leaves. Maybe I will be undoing them. Not quite sure.

Anyway I think next there will be some wolf howling at the moon and some rendeer in conifer landscape. But I will probably first make a paper drawing. Might be smarter.

Changes

I've been gone for soo long.
I know.
I can't even handle blogger quite right now. It has changed since the last time I've used it or I have just forgotten.
So but that is not the biggest change in my life and the reason I wasn't posting for such a long period. The reason is here:

                                                                           Kalina around 2 months old

This reason is quite a big girl already and is eating Müsli right now next to me. Eating is actually the wrong term - painting will be more like it. Or a study about the inherent potential of the müsliness not related to eating.

She was born on 21.02.2011:

  

Kalina around 10 months old

                                                       

 Kalina around 13 months old

I had tough pregnancy working full time and walking to work through snow and rain. I did a lot of stuff for her before she was born, but I never posted it, since time was an issue.

After she was born it was a lot tougher than I ever imagined. Probably even first time parents with pessimistic touch and great imagination are getting hit in the face by the reality of it at first. She used to cry for hours the first months with me carrying her around the whole time. It was crazy.

Later on we had a longer period where she was waking almost every hour in the night and I was tired as hell. Right now we are almost OK. She still wakes 1-3 times in the night but she is so much easier to take care of. I am even able to do some sewing with her playing next to me or sitting on my lap and trying to push every available button.

With all the difficulties of taking care of a small baby and later a toddler - every day still is so precious with our little crazy. She is so unbelievably funny and perfect. I am just amazed most of the time and miss her even if I am away for half an hour.

I will try writing on the blog a bit more next. I saw a lot of requests for the patterns I've made. I will try to put them on the blog next, but first I will have to find them...

So lets see if I manage to post more often!