Watching the Olympics

Although we were only about 10 km (as the crow flies) away from Cortina, we watched the Olympics on TV. 

And this is a great opportunity to watch sports I never watch otherwise. 

And admire their Olympics uniforms. My absolute favourite team was Mongolia:

But I also loved Lithuania!

And yes, we've seen the opening :-)

Screenshots stolen from the Internet.

No. 

Just no.

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

Fashion history

My local museum has an exhibition on the history of fashion.

The exhibition is not bad - but it reminded me so much of going through my mother's/grandmother's closets :-)

Some pieces are exceptional, like this "aristocratic dressing gown" from the Countess of Lichtenberg, late 19th century.

And another fancy coat:

Tiger dress

Another birthday party, another tiger dress.

 

Yes, yes, I know. Leopard robe.

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

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.

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

Arizona green tea dress

What do you do six hours before the airport shuttle picks you up?

You make yourself a new dress.

Of course.

A lovely soft jersey. Lovely, but difficult to sew.

And since the fabrics reminds me so much of the Arizona green tea packaging, I'm calling the dress the Arizona dress :-)