I am in a bag moon at the moment (obviously my beret moon wasn’t a great success so I decided to change… for now). Bellow is my first try, a small black bag in cotton. I am not convince with the shape but it is the first time I  sew a zipper and I must say I am quite proud of it!

 Recto is a tribute to the mythical movie ”The endless summer”

Verso

 Fabric = Black heavy cotton from Spotlight – Paint= Pebeo Secalor Opaque (Perle Moire)

Next on the plan, a large travel bag from a book I borrowed at the library “Make your own handbag” as well as one inspired by Bo (she had the kindness to take the time to send me a sketch of this beautiful red bag she made)

It is my third trial of this 6-pants-beret – I won’t even show you the two first one it is so ridiculous!

This one probably doesn’t look too bad on the picture but in reality it is definitely too small…

I am quite obstinate so I know I will try again but I think I will wait a bit for that!

It should fit a little girl so if you are interrested to have it, just let me a comment on this post and I will send it to you.

In the meantine, I can just be jalous of the beautiful one made by Parfum du Ciel recently… Gree!

Pattern = A mix from Miss Mais’s tutorial, a book I found in the library (The hat book – Juliet Bawden) and a knitted beret from Katmandu  – Fabric : Red heavy cotton from Spotlight – Model: Natalie

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Un enieme echec de la fameuse casquette gavroche… trop petite ce coup ci… greee… Si elle vous interresse – pour une petite fille ou une petite tete! - laissez moi un commentaire sur ce post et je vous l’offre avec plaisir!

Edit du 20/01: La casquette va partir rejoindre Zaboudeficelle. Quand a Marilo et Vigolou qui me propose un echange, c’est avec plaisir que je vais vous concocter une sur-mesure (couleur/matiere/taille au choix) … car je crois que j’ai enfin reussi a en faire une au bonne dimension (tetue moi?) alors maintenant, faut que je m’entraine!

Here what I sent to the lovely K-Rine - baby clothes for her little boy.

Grey and white for an “Ensemble gris souris” – New born size

Pattern = Thai pants home made pattern - Fabric : Grey cotton from Spotlight

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And brown for a sarouel and its matching sleeveless waistcoat – Size 6 months

Pattern: Calixte from Citronille for the sarouel and home made for the waistcoat  – Fabric: Stretch velours and cotton from Spotlight.

I took quite a bit of time because I have created most of the patterns myself (and you never success at the first trial, sadly!)

I have made also a lovely Mao grey shirt but I burnt it with my iron… GreeeeRRRRRR

And a necklace flowers for Karine

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Un petit colis “Naissance Garcon” pour la talentueuse K-Rine compose:

1. d’un ensemble naissance pantalon thai + T-shirt, patron maison base sur mon pantalon thai adulte (super facile a faire, je recommande aux debutantes qui peuvent s’aider du tutorieltrouve ici – merci a Rconnection pour cette precision)
2. d’un ensemble en 6 mois sarouel (Calixte de Citronille) + gilet de berget (patron maison, trooooop fiere car j’ai bien galeree…inspire par les nombreuses creations de gilet  moumoute vu sur vos blogs ces derniers mois)
3. d’un collier-fleur comme realise ici ou la
4. Et de deux pelotes de laines couleur moutarde (et oui, le piege est ici!) pour qu’elle me tricote un  de cesjoli berets a assortir a mon echarpe tricotee ici…

I sew this simple black skirt for a friend birthday.

Front: a little bird inspired by her (have a click on her blog you won’t be disappointed by the amount of good ideas you will find there)

… hanging on the line…

Back : green arabesque and multicolor buttons…

Pattern : Home made – Fabric : black thick cotton from Spotlight

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Pour un anniversaire, une simple jupe noire  (patron maison), deco oiseau inspiree des magnifiques dessins de Creenfantin

I haven’t posted for the past few weeks but I was waiting for a sunny day to take pictures.

I finally found one, as well as an amazing top model to pose for me…

So, first, what’s best than an Obi belt to emphasize our wasp waist?

 And to give your body an amazing shape…

I tell you, this belt his magic!

Pattern : Home made (Tutorial Here) – Fabric: Black and grey coton from Spotlight

 And to go with the beld, I sewed a matching top.

I really like the shape given by the pattern (initially, a dress, but I shortered it), especially the wide sleeves.

I will definitely use the pattern again, for a dress or a jacket.

Pattern : Vogue Easy – Fabric: Black and grey coton from Spotlight

You may not remember, but we swapt with Carole, a gorgeous bag and its matching headband v.s an outfit for his coming little baby boy.

Check first what I received… isn’t it gorgeous??

Carole received her package, so I can now show you what I have made for her:

Carole loves sarouels… 

So I made one for his little baby, with a matching kimono-inspired top:

Sarouel : Pattern Calixe from Citronille size 6 months, cream-colored linen,  Pebeo Secalor paint color brown moire, and star-shaped buttons all from Spotlight

Kimono: Pattern P’tites Mimines (Tutorial in English here),  Brown linen , Cotton fabric and star-shaped buttons all from Spotlight.

And speaking about “Les P’tites Mimines”, if you want to take part of the game she currently organized on her blog, clik on the picture bellow:   

Good luck me everybody!!

A lot, actually…

 Every dressmaker has at least a full bag of fabric scraps waiting no one know what! Adele had a very clever idea, and suggested to create crafts with fabric scraps. And I was on board for the challenge… With a lot, lot of inspiration!

With an entire bag full of scraps, I had plenty of fabrics to work with.

“The Scrap-Necklace”

• Fabric scraps, at least 5*5 cm pieces
• ribbon scraps
• wool scraps

Draw petal shapes on the fabric with a fabric pencil (7 long petals, and 5 small ones). Using the cord stitch of your sewing machine (or the 3 lines stitch), sew along the pencil line. Shear along the stitch line.

Create a flower shape with the longest petals and sew them together. Do the same with the smallest petals, and sew all the petals together. On the back of the flower, sew the ribbons and wool scratches.

The scrap-headband

• Fabric Scraps (5*5 cm)

1/ For the headband : Stitch the fabric scraps to form the headband (Lengh around 1.5 m). The secret is to put some stretch fabric scraps! And I used a velcro round to attach the heaband.

2/ Sew a flower (Same as above). Stitch or glu on the headband.

If the headband does not suit you , you can do a hairclip:

The Scrap-hairclip

Very easy to do…

Draw a flower (or any other shape on the cardboard). Glu the fabric on the wrong side of the cardboard. Shear following the flower shape. Do 2 little holes with a needle. Insert the hair clip.

I love scraps!!!

The other day, I was surfing on the net from sewing blogs to sewing blogs (there are so many amazing blogs these days!), when I found the fabulous site of Loloche. I especially found his fabric flower really cute, and luckily, she has done a tutorial!

So here is my first one, the first of a lot of I think, because it is really quick and easy to do, and you can use it to accessorize everything.

This one will go on a bag I am currently sewing… I will talk to you about it in a next post, I promise.

I bought this wool 4 months ago, and tried ever since to knit it with every size of needles I could find. The results were all horrible, so I finally decided to use it as ribbon… It worked much much better!

It starts with a smile

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Continues with a little apron in the same purpelish colors…

And concludes with the sarouel #2:

Tutorial for the sarouel : Les p’tis Grains de Mais

Pattern for the apron: Elsie – Citronille

Fabrics : All from Spotlight

It was love at the first sight with this lovely mustard yellow yarn at Spotlight.

I had a first impulse purchase for 3 wool balls and made a very long scarf for winter (because it is freezing here in winter! … and also because I just begin to knit and I don’t know how to knit something else but rectangular piece of wool). I knitted with some logs of wood I found in the forest my 12.5″ needles. I love these needles because I knit very very fast with them…

Ahem… in short, here is the scarf:

And then, I came back to Spotlight two weeks after, and… big drama… no more of this lovely mustard yellow yarn (I knew I should have bought 20 wool ball straight away, I knew it!!! ). Depressed as you can imagine, as was about to give up and go out to forget my sadness with a Samboca bottle when I suddenly discovered, at the bottom of the display unit, 2 forlorn wood balls just waiting for me!!! How lucky I am??  Are you all jealous now??

So, I wanted to knit a wool hat, but after a few researches, it appears that you have to use barbarian tools so called  “circular needle”, and be able to read hieroglyph such as “Row 11: P1, * K1, YO, K2, Slip1, K2tog, PSSO, K2, YO, K1, P1, repeat from * across”. Help, I don’t have my Champollion translator!

So, I think I need a bit more time here…

And I will come back to you in a few months with my yellow hat, I promise (I have to speed, winter is coming soon!)