This is my new discovery. Thanks to Tilly I have discovered this TV show from the BBC. I haven’t watched TV for years and I got tired long ago of those lame singing contests (I think there’s one now called Splash where famous people jump to a swimming pool, stupid). …
Category: Sewing
Weekend
This past weekend was going to be a calm one. There were neither swing parties nor any kind of workshop announced. Time for ourselves and our things. One of the urgent projects for me was modifying Koen’s respro cycling mask. He goes to work by bike almost everyday. It’s a …
Mad Men Sew Along
I’ve recently started to read blogs about sewing. What I’m learning during class is not enough and I dream of making beautiful vintage dresses. The other day I stumbled upon this: And I immediately wanted to participate. The challenge finishes in just 8 days, and I’ve started my dress two …
New coat: a copy-cat
One of the things I wanted to try when I started my sewing classes was making a nice and elegant coat. After browsing the internet and setting my Pinterest on fire, I found this: And this is my version of it: I changed the back a bit, but I’m very …
Barswingona
This past long weekend was not very productive regarding knitting. We assisted to an international Lindy-Hop event in Barcelona. With four hours of class per day and then the parties where we could continue dancing and watching the teachers’ showcases, we had no much energy left in our bodies the …
Insomnia
We went to bed quite early on Friday. Koen was destroyed after a very hard week at work and lack of sleep and I needed some rest to recover from a bad cold. Koen fell asleep almost immediately, but I didn’t have the same luck. I was tossing and turning …
All’s Well That Ends Well
We came back from Tenerife on Saturday evening, and since then I couldn’t stop feeling a deep angst. That I found a lot of work on Monday didn’t help to calm my stress. I felt like a week away from the internet had left me with a never-ending to-do list. …
Why we do things
I’m going to talk today about a couple of thing that you didn’t know about me. You know me as a knitter, that I dance Lindy Hop and that I moved to Madrid one year ago. But what about the rest? I’m going to tell you a little bit today. …
The Bag Making Bible (a review) and Sister’s handbag making-off
I’ve often found that the handbags and backpacks they sell in shops are far from what I want, need and like. I had it first when I wanted to buy a backpack for my laptop from work which I had to carry everyday. I got one of those messenger bags …
Handmade handbag (Xmas present number 6)
I wanted to make this for a very long time, but I hadn’t had the time for it and I think that my poor crappy sewing machine was probably going choke, so I delayed it for some time while keeping other options open. I spent several days around Christmas at …