Work in progress...

I've been terribly neglecting this blog lately but currently my priorities are someplace else. But at least after almost three months of work, there is some progress visible.

Proud mum!

Life is extremely hectic at the moment - we are renovating the house, I'm writing two (not one, two!) books at a time, MiniMojcek Nr.2 started kindergarden way worse than we expected and MiniMojcek Nr.1 started school. The proper school. While the first two hours were terrible, the rest of the week was superb! He's got the most wonderful teacher and this is what he made on his second day at school: a self-portrait.

The inscription says "That's me" and you can surely recognise the Union Jack on the T-shirt he wore that day. That's my boy!

Seeing blue

You know how it is - when you have LOTS of VERY important things to do, you do something completely different. My excuse it that I had pretty high fever over the weekend and wasn't able to do any intelligent work (like plan electricity for the house or write a textbook), so I opted for sewing.

When buying a laser distance metre last week, I made a small detour to a fabric shop and immediately fell in love with this Smurf fleece. I made a hoody for MiniMojcek Nr.2's daycare friend. While I was at it, I made another one for MiniMojcek Nr. 2. Sure thing. I may make something similar for MiniMojcek Nr. 1.

Work in progress...

I feel like I should post something... but I have absolutely nothing to write about. My mind is completely occupied with the renovation of the house. You'll know why if I show you the picture of my living room. It currently looks like this:

 

There is, however, something pretty growing in the garden :-)

One down... hundred to go.

As you may remember, we recently bought a house and started renovating it. So all our money and most of our time is now invested into the house.

I'm happy to say that one thing is already finished - the garage doors. Not that I had much work to do but to order and pay for them... Much more time consuming, however, is this:

painting about 160 pickets for the picket fence.

Bordeaux purple

I needed a black T-shirt and for some reason H&M sell only black and white T-shirts combined. I liked the black one, but white just isn't my colour. So I decided to dye it!

I bought some DEKA dyes in Bordeaux Red. The instructions are  fairly simple: wash, cook, rinse, fix, dry, wear :-)

 

 

Although I've dyed fabrics several times before, cooking a T-shirt still seems wrong.

I'm quite happy with the result - although the colour is much more purple than Bordeaux red. On the other hand - the colour is exactly the same as on the bag.

Brown wrap skirt

Last year I posted about several brown fabrics that were on my to-do pile. I used the brown linen to make a wrap skirt. Without a pattern, I just cut the fabric, sew the three pieces together, made the darts and added the belt. But the skirt was rather... dull...so I went and bought a ribbon to liven it up a bit.

I'm happy to say - it works!

Later I added the buttons. And the skirt still needs to be ironed, obviously.