The „Mr. Nilsson shirt“

Suse am 11. Januar 2009

I bought this really nice fabric with the little lake, the trees and those animals on it already some time ago – and I loved to use it for the second try with my Bernina serger.

I’m really happy with the result: A cute shirt for my daughter. And as there is a tiny little monkey somewhere on the shirt – my daughter calls it her „Mr. Nilsson shirt“. And as she is such a huge Pippi Longstocking fan – it wasn’t easy to persuade her to take it off again :-)

The shirt is my own design. There are some things concerning that shirt which aren’t perfect – but those are the details which help me learn to get better. And in general – I like the shirt a lot:

shirt

The wonderful pear and the cute apples are again from Lorelei.

A new dress and an apple

Suse am 11. Januar 2009

I started this year by buying something really nice: A brandnew and phantastic Bernina overlock sewing machine/serger. I already sewed some cute dresses for my daughter with my Pfaff sewing machine – and although I really liked the results, I was always aware that I would need a serger soon.

And now I’m learning to work with my wonderful new serger – and it’s really true (like many told me): It’s much easier to work with a serger than you might think.
I’m not a fan of buying patterns and working after them – this is cutting back my creativity way too much. So usually I’m designing my own patterns and using bought patterns only to see how special problems are solved. I think the best book for learning to work with stretch fabrics is „Sew U: Home Stretch“. I found most of my questions answered there so far. And together with the really, really good book „Serger Secrets: High-Fashion Techniques for Creating Great-Looking Clothes“ (I absolutely dislike the style of the clothes in this book – but the informations in general are priceless!) you can start to sew your own clothes right away.

And I did (and didn’t even own those books at that point) – and as it’s very cold now here in Berlin, I sewed a cute, very simple and warm little dress for my daughter. And she loves it. It’s not perfect – but I think it’s ok for a serger beginner :-)

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Btw: Do you like the apple Lilith is playing with? I LOVE it – and I got it from Lorelei. She has an amazing blog (in German), you find her work on flickr and she has a shop on dawanda.

RevoluzZzionary Spring Colors

Suse am 9. Januar 2009

One of the new revoluzZzaionary things this year will be that I’m going to find special colors for the different seasons which will dominate my collection of creations and clothes (yes, clothes – you will find more about that soon. Stay tuned). And for spring I tried a lot, combined many colors, looked over many, many fabrics… and finally I went for my first color combination:

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It’s yellow, red and aqua/turquoise/light blue.
I never liked yellow very much – and that’s exactly the reason why I chose this color first and tried to find a combination which made me like it. And that’s exactly what happened. Together with red and turquoise – I really, really like yellow.

So, stay tuned and expect many yellow, red and turquoise things soon :-)

And by the way: You find those cute buttons of mine on dawanda!

Happy 2009!

Suse am 31. Dezember 2008

I hope you all have an amazing and great New Year! And I hope you will share a bit of your time with me next year – and I promise: There will be a lot of absolutely new stuff! :-) (and the new „hardware“ is already on its way – yay!)

Take care!

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Ich hoffe Ihr alle schaut einem großartigen und wunderbaren neuen jahr entgegen. Und ich hoffe, dass Ihr wieder ein bisschen Eurer Zeit mit mit teilen werdet im nächsten jahr. Und ich verspreche: Es wird viele absolut neue Sachen geben :-) (und neue „Hardware ist schon unterwegs – juhuu!)

Paßt auf Euch auf!