Language difficulties

I've made some progress on my jacket. Could be because I identified the instruction language as Swedish, not English... Anyway, I have cut the lacking pieces of fabric, picked the buttons and started with the pockets. The buttons are from my granddads captain uniform, which means I have to make some button adjustment. I only have 4 large buttons to the front, instead of 6. On the other hand, I have plenty of small ones for the pockets and the sleves.

A new pile

Since the summer is no more, I have changed my priorities for the fabric pile, and put the yellow dresses back on the shelf. The pile now contains a jacket, a skirt, a dress (wedding dress rehearsal) and a petrol jersey dress (left from the previous pile). I still haven't solved the issue with the headless dragons but I've actually finished the red silk belt and made a trillion more tetraeds. 5 more to go, then I will be completely out of zippers. Then it is time to convert the leftovers to a qilted blanked for the bed. But that is another story.

Let's start with the jacket. I cut the pieces for the jacket quite a while ago (close to the time when I cut the fabric for the headless dragons). Fortunately, there are fabric left for the other collar pieces I need to cut as well. The hardest part is that the instructions are written in Greek. No, it is actually English, but it will still take me a while to figure it out. In the meanwhile, I can play Ferdinand and smell all the pretty flowers. I gave my pelargoniums some fertilizer a week ago you see... :)

My biggest project ever...

... will be the making of my wedding gown. Yesterday I went out with a friend to see what the world had to offer. Before that I was convinced that I would make a draped version with beads in cream dupion silk. I'm not so sure anymore. I'm not even sure that I will make my dress. I've fallen in love with Ginnis G156! That was in the end of the trying-on-dresses-that-weights-a-ton-odyssée (this is not a joke - if you want to know how it is like to be overweight - try on a wedding cake dress) that Therese in the store found me a light version of a draped dress (Ginnis 162, sorry but I can't find it on their site). At that moment, P and I lost all words. Then she suggested that I'll try this on, I my head turned into a monkey brain. I couldn't finish a sentence for several hours. Poor P. :)

Our tea cup window

One of the pictures that got lost at my computer crash was the photo of the tea cupboard for the progress report. Luckily, we haven't progressed that much, så you haven't missed a thing. The frames are in place, painted in a light blue-grey colour named "amelie" (since I consider the movie 'Le fabeleux destin d'Amelie Poulain' to be a positive mood inductor, I took that as a sign for a good colour to be for the frames). I've bought some lovely knobs in white porceline with sublime flowers from Indiska. The only problem now is that the frames aren't really flat which is quite a challenge for the addition of the plexiglass (leftovers from R2D2). On the other hand, doors without glass is practical, since the doors never have to be open - just grab your favorite cup! :)

Geometric sewing

My recycling tendensies has found a peak in the tetraeds. It is a good way of cleaning the craft closet too. All old zippers that I have collected and pieces of ribbon, lace and fabric turn into something quite useful. Bathroom stuff, knitting projects, keys, you name it - anything that needs a home gets a home in a tetraed. The leftover fabrics from making the tetraeds go into the patch work box.

When you cut out the fabric for a tetraed, don't forget that the edge between to sides is 8/7 times the lengt of the zipper. Cut 2 times the length of the zipper as the long side, and 8/7 times the zipper length as the short side (2*zipper X 8/7*zipper) - otherwise the length of the side wont be the same. In the model I make, the zipper goes from the top down to a middle of the base on one side. It is actually very easy to make a tetraed, the trickiest part is to add the zipper, and if you want to do lining you need to do some abstract thinking.

Meet Mr Target Audience

This is our kitchen table covered by 3 headless dragons and 2 dinosaurs. And my room mates doctoral thesis! :) One of the dinosaurs are finished, he is working for our editor now as target audience.

The dots are thought to be sewn in place by machine, byt i used langette stitches and contrasting thread.

Lost (X)-files

Before the compelete ghosting of my brake down computer I copied all the files I had onto a portable harddrive. Or at least so I thought. All pictures taken with my own camera were lost in the process. It is not that I haven't been crafting, it is simply that all the proof of it is gone... :) I've been making a trillion of tetraeds, a dinosaur and a belt. My plan was to make 3 dragons as well, but I suddenly realised that the head pieces were missing for all of them. And I have run out of fabric. I'm still waiting for the solution for that issue. :)

Anyway, I now have a new computer. Hopefully that is a promise of good blog times to come!