Friendly order!

I got a request from a friend to make her something special for her daughter. The daughter loves pandas and she had seen this in my shop. So I started cutting. She needed it in a larger size than I usually make, but I figured out that I had just enough fabric to make her a tunic. That is before my serger started messing up the fabric that is. JEEZ! I think I've sewn the hem at least 10 times. After about six times I gave up an cut off the fabric, since it was so many holes and other things in the fabric. I changed needles and it continued to mess up the fabric. Odd thing is that I've hemmed about 10 tops just before this one, so I KNEW that the settings were perfect. Obviously not! After a while it started working and the top turned out as I planned. Only a little shorter...

Well. Anyway. She mentioned that her daughter played the flute and had a very old and ugly case to the flute. She wanted something pretty instead and thought that it shouldn't be that hard to make. If one knew how to sew. And if one had a sewing machine. She had neither, so I decided to make her a little surprise gift. The daughters name begins with an A and she loves purple. The little satin ribbon is from Farbenmix. I do hope that the measurements are alright, otherwise there will be a needles case for a knitter whose name begins with an A. *LOL*

Skirtomania - well I beat my own record!

Well. I beat my own record... I made 8 skirts in one blogpost a while ago, and the week before the Christmas Fair I was making skirts like crazy. And no, I did NOT get enough sleep that week... So here it comes. 10 skirts in one blogpost!!

First one on red denim with a russian nesting doll is already sold. That one is heading to Finland and was sold within minutes from when I listed it. The rest of the skirts are listed in my shop in the skirts section.
Next one from a vintage fabric has That Emil from the Astrid Lindgren books on it. I literally used every little piece of that fabric, but I got a similar one in brown.
And, Mr Sandman. Everything with MrSandman has been really popular in my shop. Lots of men and women that grew up in the 70's are now having kids in the right age and size.
There were more than one of my customers on the Christmas fair that commented on MrSandman that was eating spaghetti. One even had nightmares from the Spaghetti-man. I think that MrSandman was a doll, who had yarn beard, and those strings are not spaghetti, but badly drawn yarn...
Another in in larger size. On the back there's a picture of MrSandman flying an airplane.
A lovely vintage fabric with Christmas angels on. I got just enough fabric to make two skirts. I tried to save the lace trim on the original fabric, but I had to give up, so I added a new cotton lace instead.
I tried to save the lace trim on the original fabric, but I had to give up, so I added a new cotton lace instead. So cute angels!!
And another one, in a larger size.
Hah! I got a small piece of the vintage Pippi Longstocking fabric in lime that is SO wanted. This time I made a skirt from it. It has large print, so it really should either be a small dress or a large skirt, otherwise I will have to cut to much in the print. I just loooove this fabric!
And in the middle of everything I got a custom order for this adorable little skir with dolphins on it. I got a similar one in my shop on red polkadot fabric with navy dolphins, but my customer wanted a little more subtile choice of color. And it is SO cute!
Another Pippi Longstocking skirt. This time in a new fabric that I haven't shown you yet. On grey background and with a red trim. This is definitely a skirt that would work all year around. I like that the prints are slightly larger than the light blue I usually use.
Well. Last skirt. From that light blue that has become SO popular. Now there are little girls in all parts of the world wearing Pippi Longstocking skirts and dresses. One customer told me that her daughter wore the skirt for THREE days in a row, and then she forced her mum to wash it! Talk about happy end-user!!

Lots of tops - horses, hearts and skateboarders!

Well. This has to be a super-duper-mega-blogpost. But if you are not going to have to read about all my tops forever and ever and ever I will have to do it this way. All tops are listed in the shop, unless they are already sold!

First two similar horse top. One with a prancing horse and one with a running horse. The horses actually has different colors on them, but I don't think it is possible to see that from these pictures. One brown and one kinda olive colored. The lovely horsefabric on blue background is superduper nice! I've combined it with french terry and this makes two lovely tops/sweaters, just warm enough for the winter.

Then three similar tops with solid fronts and heart appliqués. All combined with lovely high quality and supersoft Hilco fabric. First one one olive background with pink and blue hearts.

Second top with pink and the flowery "La Finura" on brown background from Hilco as well.

And the same fabric on the sleeves as the first heart-top, but this time combined with blue body.

And this supercool solid white top with light blue sleeves with skateboarders.

Monday Moodboard - Olive green!

I am not a big fan of green. Really. Especially not olive green. Probably because it is one of those colors (together with orange, and a shade called lion yellow) that always make me look very sick when I try to wear it. But, occasionally I find things that I just CAN'T resist! So, here goes my olive green Monday Moodboard.

The lovely scarf is from ThongbaiTatong. I would just looove to snuggle up in that one. It even says silk on the description. How luxurious!
And the fingerless gloves are from Ayca and are made from alpacka wool. No itching!.
The headband comes from Kirevi888, and I am finally growing enough hair to wear such a headband.
And, that bag.... Mmm. You can never have enough bags can you?? Well. That's from Vaisto.

For more lovely moodboards check out FleurFatale's blog.

Yay! - 100 items in my shop!

One really positive thing about the Christmas market was that I got the opportunity to go through my stock of items and see what was missing. And, also I made a lot of new things, and some of it that didn't sell at the market is now uploaded into my shop.

This means that I now officially got 100 items in my shop!!! YAY! That has been a goal I have been working for since I opened up my shop. So, this means that everybody will be able to find at least something in the shop! Remember to that after the 10:th of December I can't promise that the Post will be able to deliver to you! For customer in Sweden this will be prolonged until the 16:th of December!

Happy shopping!

November Challenge: Organic Cars and Black Friday Sale in my shop!

I loooove making things from organic fabric. If I could I would only make organic clothes, but sadly the fabrics are much more expensive than regular fabric and it is not easy to find the fabrics that I want. Especially if you want to have things with colors.

But this really cool fabric with cars on.... Well. It has everything I could possibly wish for. Supersoft, great luster and just a little thicker than your average t-shirt, which makes it warm and cozy for the winter.
I only had one meter of this fabric, and I have used almost every little scrap from it. Well I got a small piece left for making an appliqué. The first top is sz 4T (104cl) and the two smaller ones are actually identical in choice of fabric, but one is in sz 12mths(80cl) and one is in sz 2T (92cl). I very rarely do two items in the same choice of fabric, but this time I decided to make an exception for brother-brother matching.
And, since I was at the christmas fair last weekend at a castle with an organic profile and it IS Black Friday today I decide to have a sale on all my organic clothes this weekend. 25% off. The prices are already adjusted in my shop!! You will see all things on sale HERE!

November Challange - Cats!

I've had this fabric for a LOOOOONG time. I've even made tops from it before. But now since we are doing this November challange I decided to do some more of it. First thing I made was a dress. And since my daughter gets first pick from everything I make, and she's very much into dresses I was not THAT surprised that she insisted on this one being hers. She even started wearing it (at home at least) before I had put ribbing and all hems on it...

The next item is a top with a cat appliqué and cat sleeves. The appliqué is an enlargement from the print of the cat fabric. I got this pink-red-orange-fabric in a batch I bought from the german eBay. And it really isn't my favourite combo. But one time I saw that the colors were actually very true in matching, so I've had an idea of making this top for, well, like a year. I thought that this one would end up in the shop, but sorry guys, my daughter snatched this one too! I am not sure if I got more of that striped fabric, and it is from last seasons collection, so it is not possible to get hold of more.

This last one I just HAD to put in the shop. It has slightly thicker body than the rest of these items that has more of a t-shirt-quality. This body is more "slightly-thicker-than-t-shirt". And the cat a brown appliqué is also an enlargement from the print of the fabric. I am actually pretty pleased with this combo, and I really thought that this would be my daughters first pick, but nope. So, this one will be posted in the shop!!