“It was hot, the night we burned Chrome.” William Gibson, Burning Chrome After reading about Rochelle and Tasha‘s proposal, I thought it could fit in my plans. I was planning on making two blouses, one from a vintage pattern and another from a pattern with a vintage inspiration. If you …
Category: Sewing
An update to the Jedediah Pants
Returning from our holidays is relieving in some way (I was really looking forward to going back to normal) but it’s also very frustrating because it leaves very little time due to some adjustments. There are clothes to be washed and folded, there is also a big mess in our …
Jedediah sewalong: Planning mods
The release of the Jedediah pants and the announced sewalong just came at the right time, since Koen was longing for a handmade pair of pants (and shorts) after the complete success of my Thurlows (isn’t it nice when our other half support us in our crafty and crazy adventures?). …
Wow, I’ve won fabric!
I’m not usually anybody who wins prizes (that’s why I don’t play the lottery, ha) but this time my luck has changed, because I’m one of the lucky winners of the give away Anneke hosted on the occasion of her first blogaversary. My special prize is a three-yard piece of vintage …
Decluttering and loving the changes
After a week in Belgium and still amazed at how hard the cultural shock can be even after having lived there for more than five years, I’m still recovering. And I’ve entered again into a frenzy decluttering phase. I moved to Belgium in September of 2006 and I had brought …
Pattern Following vs. Pattern Drafting
This topic has been in my head for the past months. I’ve been following a course for the last year about pattern drafting. It showed me a world of infinite possibilities but also with more than one issue. Later on I tried the world of just following a pattern made by someone …
Paula and her bathing suit
Do you remember the bathing suit I made for the swimsuit sewalong? During my stay in Vigo I could finally make some pictures of Paula modelling it. The weather was quite bad during the two weeks I spent there, being cold and foggy most of the time, but I managed to go …
Fabric scavenging
As I’ve already explained, there’s a shop in Vigo called Retales Lidia where they sell fabric by the kilo. Some of those fabrics are the same as the ones used by Inditex, and among some useless fabrics, you can find some jewels. In the picture below, the white fabric is …
A family week
As I’ve explained in my previous post, after experimenting very high temperatures in Madrid, I felt too optimistic and packed two skirts, a pair of shorts, a dress and a half for my two weeks here. The half comes from the pieces I cut to make a Lonsdale dress, since …
Fails
Murphy’s law says that if there’s anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it definitely did this time. We were supposed to take a flight to Vigo yesterday at 5 pm, but after taking zillions of planes in our life, we miscalculated and missed our plane. We could change our tickets …