Summer lovin'

Since I never ever find pants that fit I'm a skirt girl for this summer.

So I made three very easy skirts, but nevertheless I like them and so I've got some pictures for you :)

The first one is, compared to the others, fairly ambitioned: I actually used a zip whilst the others do only have an elastic band in the waist ;)

It's made from this really great cotton fabric with really nice embroidery all over it.

 I was very lazy and used just an overlock stitching for the hems.

In the waist I added a zip fastener and two darts in the front and in the back, instead of doubling this part or adding lining I justused bias binding for a cleaner look.

The second skirt is dedicated to Spirit Amy, who kindly bought the wonderful blueberry fabric for me.

And the last one is my beloved "hippie skirt".

Veeery comfy, veeery nice. It's got a great length, you can do really anything wearing this skirt without having to bother insights or ruffling your hems up.

The length isn't very elegant, but I really really like it. It's great for travelling by train, you can sit hurled down in the chairs however you like and yet you're always looking decent.

The last fabric is really cute, I think it was designed to be a curtain one day, but it's so much cuter on my skirt ;)

Happy Birthday NatronundSoda!

Since the wonderful NatronundSoda Project has its 10th birthday this year, they started a "thumbs up!" project.

This is my picture:

Sew on!

denocte

Heaven can wait, but not for its capsules.

Nespresso chic is in, I know.
And jewellery made from Nespresso capsules isn't really a new thing too.

BUT.

I really really have to post this, because my grandpa made them for me!

One day my 76yrs old grandpa thought "what a pity to throw all those colourful Nespresso capsules away. Maybe I should use them for some crafty project."
Then he started collecting the capsules, cut the silver foil and peeled it off, threw the left over coffee away.
With two wooden trays he then squeezed them just using his hands, than he added some super-craft-wood-whatever he found in his workshop-glue and put two capsules together and squeezed them again, this time using the trays AND a bench vice too.

Then he had funny tiny little capsule beads.
With a hole punch he borrowed from me he made two holes into the beads.
Then he searched for a chain and added the capsules to the chain by bending the chain links open.

I also sent him some earring hooks, which he instantly used to create simple nespresso earrings.

My grandpa is 76yrs old, his eye sight is really bad now. In earlier years he used to be in his workshop all day making all kinds of funny things. But never ever something this tiny.
Actually, my grandma is involved a lot too: She always has to tell him, which colour the capsules are he uses. Because he can't really differ from red to brown or blue to grey and so on.


Enough said, here are the first pictures of his first creation.
Many more to follow, I packed a parcel full of beading stuff (all made for big hands and much bigger than the ones that I would use, but he wouldn't be happy with tiny girly jewellery stuff ;) ) and he is busy drinking coffee and collecting the capsules.

Love you, grandpa!

denocte

Werbung in eigener Sache

Lange erträumt, endlich in die Tat umgesetzt:

Seit heute ist offiziell mein neuer Blog online:

Kurvendiskussionen

Wissenswertes, Neuigkeiten und Allerlei Getratsche über passende BHs (nicht nur) in Österreich

Seit nun gut einem Jahr beschäftige ich mich sehr viel und zum Teil auch sehr intensiv mit den verschiedenen BH-Schnitten, Größen, Modellen und vor allem Bezugsquellen in Österreich.

Eines steht fest: Hier muss noch viel geschehen!
Ich hoffe, ich kann mit meinem Blog ein wenig Licht ins Dunkel des BH-Dschungels bringen und euch vielleicht mit dem ein oder anderen Tip zu passenden BHs verhelfen.

Es würde mich sehr freuen, wenn ich bei den Kurvendiskussionen einige bekannte Gesichter wiedersehen würde!

Es stehen schon einige Artikel in den Startlöchern, jetzt fehlen nur noch die Leser ;)


Bis dann, 
Eure Denocte


 

The Beethoven Dress - Opus 24 - Spring

Now the secret sewing is finished - a week ago I gave the dress to its new proud owner.


I'm very happy that she allowed me to show some pictures of her wearing the dress, because it just looks so awesome on her!

My good friend S. studied the violin and is now officially "Master of Arts".

Congratulations again, we're so proud!

She gave a concert were she played all the stuff she prepared for her final exam, including the really beautiful Beethoven Sonata "Spring" (Opus 24).
And it just struck me. Sitting there in this small church listening to her really touching interpretation of Spring, I knew it: I had to sew a dress.

I gave the whole thing a lot of thought, everything is really exactly like I imagined. Beethoven's Sonata fits so well to S's start to a new life, life after college etc ;)

I chose the colours red-black-white for a reason:
Red - the new joy of spring after a long winter
black - the melancholy that always stays
white - it's the universal colour of eternity for me.

You see, the perfect Music for a new start to a new life...

Enough psychology, here it is:

That's what Beethovens Spring would look like, if it was a dress ;)








I presented the first drawings in the last posting, I chose the second one in the end.


The straps are adjustable. The button in the middle is just because it looks nice, it doesn't actually hold anything on place ;)




As some devoted readers might have noticed, I actually used this fabric for a dress before - Summertime for Surferbabe, remember?. But I didn't have any fabric left, so I'm very very thankful that victorien, a fellow User of Natronundsoda found the fabric for me!


Special Feature:
There's a part of the sheet music of the theme of the sonata printed on the inside of the dress, Thank you Mademoiselle Chaos for your tutorial how to print onto almost anything using not more than paint thinner, q-tips, something flat and a laser printer!
Unfortunately, it doesn't look that good on the pics. It looks really nice in real life ;)






I also made a hairbandthingy, I put some tiny beads on it. Since it's a very stretchy fabric, I had to sew every bead on its own. But it was worth it.







If you're interested in the "pattern", the dress is really not that hard to make.
You basically need just the following parts:

Stuff for the upper part: (The skirt is just a rectangle)
The lining for the back isn't shown on this pic, because I still had to print the extra feature when I took this pic ;)



If someone is interested in a detailed walk-through, please just ask. I'll make another dress using this "pattern" for myself and maybe I'll write a tutorial :)
Until now you have put up with the german-english mix ;)


I hope you like it,

denocte

Dress project - pattern and button *heart*

Hello my dear readers,

Since I'm waiting and waiting and waiting for the fabric for this dress to arrive, I thought I could show you how far I prepared everything till now :)

The dress will be a present (I'll tell you the whole story when I'm done).
First I made a couple of scribbles (I didn't draw the figurines, google was my friend and helper^^ )





With some help from fellow seamstresses I decided to sew pattern 2.
I will use jersey fabric for the dress.


That's approximately the "pattern".
But time showed: I don't need the darts, a nicely drawn curve will do. But 15cm are far too small, I should better make it 20. At least. Don't know why I wrote 15cm.
And thenI bought this great button *love*
It's made from mother-of-pearl, some stone resembling to coral and something grey (lalala).
I want to put it in the front as decoration, non functional. Hopefully it will look nice with the fabric, otherwise... Well, I would need a new button^^.



There will be a lot of secret decoration on the inside, I'll show you when the secret project is finished :)

denocte

Welcome Presents :)

My best friend had her baby a couple of weeks ago.

A darling little baby girl *heart*

Since she herself is a very talented seamstress plus she did already knit the cuuutest clothes for her baby girl, I planned to sew presents, which aren't clothing ;)

So I made two tiny bags for the Mum and Baby's first book for the baby girl.

Finally an excuse to buy a lot of great fabric!

For example this mushroom fabric I used for the smaller one:

and this one with the birds, white with violet birds on it,

The same fabric but "inverse" wanted to be the outer fabric for the bigger bag:



uuuh, what's in it?


A book!
One side is pink with teddy bears and flowers in it:







And the other side is blue with animals and flowers.
My favourite, I admit.

Zebra and mouse:

tiger (aaawwwww) and mouse

chick and hedgehog

and a baby seal.


And that's what it looks like when you open it:


It's mildly stuffed and you can even put it in the washing machine :)


Congrats again to your darling little daughter, dear K. !

denocte