Summer trousers

I've had this colourful light fabric for quite a while now, but now was the right occasion to make a superlight superwide superflowy trousers. So I made them :-)

Summer fabrics

Just before flying to France, I made myself a new summery dress. 

A lovely floral Jersey with orchids.

  

 And slightly puffy sleeves. 

 

And as soon as one dress was finished, I acquired new fabrics :-) 

Hooded Microfibre Poncho

Decathlon's got great hooded beach ponchos and we've been using them for years.

But they are quite big and get super-heavy when wet.

 

So I made a lightweight microfibre copy :-)

  

Of course I got the material from Decathlon: two large towels and one medium. And the elastic part was reused from come old cycling shorts.

Very happy :-)

A new dress

When MiniMojcek No.1 - who, btw, is about 25 cm taller than me by now - finished high school and celebrated the ending with a lovely ball, I needed a new dress.

And I had to make it myself, of course ;-)

A few yards of fabric, no pattern, only an idea in my head how the finished dress should look like... How hard can it be? 

Well, it turned out very very beautiful. Butterfly sleeves and very flowy. So light and so comfortable to wear. Just the right dress for the opening waltz with their mothers :-D

Musketeer costume

MiniMojcek Nr. 2 wanted to be a musketeer. So he was.

I made: the robe, the hat (altered a sheriff's hat as this was the only one I found in a shop), and the boots, while MrMojcek made the rapier.

Gandalf costume

MiniMojcek Nr. 1 decided he wanted to be Gandalf for the carnival.

So I made a Gandalf costume: the robe, the hat, the beard, the hair, the bag, the gloves, the pipe and the wooden staff.

I'm especially proud of the pipe. Made of Fimo polymer clay, it was quite tricky to make.

Tiger dress

Another birthday party, another tiger dress.

 

Yes, yes, I know. Leopard robe.

With gold ribbons around the sleeves, neckline and the hem :-)

Sewing time

MiniMojcek Nr. 2 wants to learn how to sew. However, all the summer courses we found were full - and not quite what he wanted. He had no interest in sewing pillows or simple bags...

He wanted to sew shorts. With a pocket. With a zipper.

So he learned how to sew shorts with a pocket with a zipper in seam.

And the fabrics? His choice, of course.

Jinbei

I can't believe I haven't posted anything for over two months. 

Because I've been busy. 

Because I've been away :-)

One of the things I did recently was a lovely jinbei shirt for Mr. Mojcek.

I had some super comfortable Japanese fabric:

Luckily I had a suitable thread at home :-)

The pattern is super simple, so it didn't take long and this comfy was finished.

I still need to iron it though. Oh well.

Another blue dress

I said I was going to be ready this summer!

Another blue dress I made:

It looks way better with a "belt" in the picture, but I still think I will wear it without.

Blue dress

From one of the fabrics, I made a light, airy and flowy summery dress.

 

I didn't have a pattern, but sort of copied one of the dresses I bough a few years ago during one of our many stays on Elba.

This year I am going to be ready for summer.

:-) again

Remember my post from February - now it's time for an update:

I already used 2 out of 3 fabrics.

I used the concert tickets.

I used the plane ticket.

 

But in the meantime I acquired:

5 new fabrics

another concert ticket

new plane tickets

Me happy :-)

Tiger kimono

When your close friend celebrates his 50th birthday, he deserves a present. 

And since he's practicing karate for quite a while now, he'll be getting a tiger-kimono. 

 

With a corresponding belt. And yes, he's got a green belt, so a jungle belt it is.

 

And black velvet collar.

I did my best in pattern placing and pattern matching - it's not perfect, but not bad, methinks.

I hope he will like it. 

And use it.

At least once :-)

:-)

Recently I acquired:

3 different fabrics

2 concert tickets

1 plane ticket 

Me happy :-D

That time of the year

It's that time of the year again.

It's sewing time:

It's crafting time:

It's woodworking time:

 

 

And it was totally worth it :-)

Reupholstering kitchen chairs

After ten years, the kitchen chairs really needed new fabrics.

And as you can guess by now, I am not a beige person.

 

So the chairs are no longer brown and beige, they are brown, yellow and green :-)

 

Carnival costume: Bilbo

I realised that I haven't posted this year's carnival costumes yet. And it's been over a month! Oops.

The initial idea was to make Bilbo and Gandalf. Halfway through the sewing, Gandalf changed his mind and he decided to be an (improvised) mobster. Oh well.

So I only had to make Bilbo: too short brown trousers, green vest, golden ring and ... well... feet. We had the shirt and the coat so I didn't have to make them as well.

And the final result:

:-)

Birthday present

Say a very good friend of yours is celebrating her birthday. 

And she explicitly asks for a Nijntje/Miffy bunny.

But you just cannot give the bunny as it is, right?

So you sew the bunny a red silk dress ;-)

And yes, this is real silk. 

Leftovers from an old dress of mine.

And yes, I made her black lacy underwear as well :-)

Summery

Yes, I feel summery. Joyful. Colourful. Almost like a parrot ;-)

 

Possibly you noticed (probably you didn't) that the far left and the far right dresses are the same pattern. That is because I bought the right one, liked the fit so much that I made myself a copy of it :-D

My eyes hurt!

Mr Mojcek has been looking for a light cycling vest for quite a while now. The problem being that XL in a Quintana/Roglič/Alaphilippe world is just not big enough for him.

So I made him one.

I've been looking at this bright, almost fluorescent yellow for the past couple of days now and my eyes hurt.

But the vest is nice, windproof and waterproof.

85 grams :-)