26th June 2013 - Project "Viola"

I've to give another sewing project a try, a bit more difficult than the last one before I start working on my mum's summerbag, my laptop bag and the insane amount of cosmetic bags and clutch bags I am intending to sew for family and friends for birthdays and the upcoming Christmas season.

Thanks to Dropbox, I've uploaded the pictures from the book. While watching Coco Before Chanel  I started to trace the pattern piece from the book. Next step will be picking a fabric - not sure yet - and pinning the pattern piece to get the fabrics ready.

Here is the design for "Viola" by Miriam Dornemann from her book "Tolle Taschen selbst genäht":

Not the greatest picture but I think you can get the idea. I will replace the turquoise pieces of the bag with double-side fabric pieces. Not sure about leather yet.

And my pattern pieces

Have the feeling something is missing though. Will find out during the sewing process. The little arrows indicate the direction they need to be pinned on the farbic to follow the farbic's grain.

Will record my process. Wish me luck!

20th June 2013 - Back from holidays

I am back from holidays and straight away back into my daily routine. The last two days were a bit messy and I could feel that I was struggling to speak English and understand instructions. However, I think I almost back to normal.

This week I take it a bit easier. I have a facial booked for Saturday and I am thinking of hitting the Trinity gym afterwards. With the exception of yesterday, I have been going for walks since my return from Germany. Today, I managed to put in a few short joggs while listening to Three Days Grace.

I found another few bands over the last couple of days and bought a few albums: Rise Against - Endgame; Rise Against - Appeal to Reason and Three Days Grace - Life Starts Now. These albums are of older release date and again I am behind as usual with current music. I got them at Saturn for almost next to nothing and it fills my iPod for some time. Still, Breaking Benjamin are still running on a repeat shuffle too. Just love their music.

I started a couple of projects: 

• A short sleeved cardigan: in a silver merino-metallic yarn:

I am half-way through the back of the cardigan. Took me three attempts until it finally took off

• A crochet bag: in a dark pink I picked up somewhere ages ago.

I doubt thought that I have enough yarn. I have only three balls of it which is already less than the pattern asks for. It's 14 hexagon-shaped pieces and sides I have to make. So far I have completed one while watching "Kick Ass"

I bought a lot of fabric while I was on holidays and instead of running to IKEA again, I managed to clear a box of yarn which was only half-full and put my fabric in it. And guess what I have space for more. I might go to Hickeys und buy that cotton PVC-glued owl fabric I saw in Hickeys a few weeks ago. They should still have some and I saw yesterday that a few shops have the sales on ... so who knows, maybe I get it a bargain price.

And another photo shot ...

A picture of me in Helgoland. Praise to Dropbox - uploaded this picture without a cable or without emailing myself. Yeah!

Now, for something completely different ... a shower!