tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62151237414679504712024-03-18T03:58:38.592+01:00SIGRID - sewing, knittingI love to share my projects. It's mainly sewing projects and a bit of knitting too.Sigridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16187364244385056641noreply@blogger.comBlogger913125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6215123741467950471.post-41485076254034762532023-04-16T22:40:00.006+02:002023-04-16T22:41:20.184+02:00Sewing for my daughterAbout two weeks ago my daughter asked me whether I had any special plans for this weekend and on my answer that I had nothing planned she asked me whether I liked to have a sewing weekend. She wanted to sew together, so that she would get back in the groove of sewing and could get a little help. What does a mother say to such a request? For me it's a very rhetorical question. Of course I would Sigridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16187364244385056641noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6215123741467950471.post-15696878192086161542023-03-28T16:49:00.000+02:002023-03-28T16:49:13.508+02:00Burda blouse, April 2021It's been again quite a long time since I posted. I won't bother you with the details, I'm well but illness and mourning has been part of the past months. Now it's time to get back to some sewing. A relatively easy blouse from Burda April 2021. A good preparation for when spring will finally arrive, it's been cold, raining and storming most of March here. I look forward to wearing this Sigridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16187364244385056641noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6215123741467950471.post-83270595223761833682023-01-17T17:19:00.004+01:002023-01-17T17:20:24.568+01:00Podcast interviewIn December Maria from @SewOrganisedStyle asked me to talk to her about the fake Instagram account that was made with my name and to talk about my sewing history and what I like to make. It was so lovely talking to Maria! The podcast was published today and if you would like to hear the story, here's where to find it:Sew Organised Style websiteOn YouTube with some photos (no video)She has Sigridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16187364244385056641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6215123741467950471.post-81060622383389396212023-01-03T21:32:00.001+01:002023-01-03T21:42:17.608+01:00First project of 2023 This t-shirt was inspired by one a friend wore a couple of years ago. I have made a similar one (never blogged about) at the time and thought it was time to do it again. I used a basic t-shirt pattern and made it into this pattern. The original inspiration piece had a higher neckline, this one was drafted with a lower neckline. It's the sort of change you can do easily.As I always likeSigridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16187364244385056641noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6215123741467950471.post-72694688058922639002022-12-31T20:45:00.001+01:002022-12-31T20:45:23.437+01:00Happy New Year! Sigridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16187364244385056641noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6215123741467950471.post-7406759204393564082022-11-30T23:02:00.002+01:002022-11-30T23:04:57.179+01:00Blouse from October BurdaThank you for the nice comments on my posts! I'm having trouble commenting on blogger, even on my own blog at the moment, so therefor a general thank you and no reaction in the comment section itself. Hope I can find the problem and solve this, as apart from posting myself again, I also started to read other blogs again and would like to be able to comment. My most recent make is this Burda Sigridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16187364244385056641noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6215123741467950471.post-75857214573227280892022-11-19T23:13:00.006+01:002022-11-19T23:15:11.979+01:00A burgundy red suitI realised that I have not published anything of what I've sewn in my sewing week in October. The coat plan was abandoned because I was so unsure of the pattern and didn't want to spend that precious sewing week and ending with a garment that I was not happy about. Well, we can always change our mindsšSo I worked on a suit instead. Burgundy red, quite uncommon for me but I have decided that thisSigridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16187364244385056641noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6215123741467950471.post-27322284001980252052022-11-15T12:07:00.001+01:002022-11-15T12:07:49.471+01:00A knitted shawlThis is a shawl I finished recently, the Iney shawl. The pattern is published inthe book 52 weeks of Shawls. Well, for me there is not enough time to knit a shawl in a week, certainly not this one. It took me almost a year, though I admit there were periods of weeks that I didn't work on it.About two years ago I bought a kit for a cardigan from Christel Seyfart and after knitting the body I was Sigridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16187364244385056641noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6215123741467950471.post-43210120158399988172022-10-19T23:33:00.001+02:002022-10-19T23:33:44.346+02:00What a weekThe sewing week with my friends was everything I expected it to be and much more! As one of us said after we returned home: still glowing. We filled the space with chatting, laughing, cooking, pattern tracing, sewing and a bit of knitting too. Add some walks, visit to an English seaside town and a meeting in real life with someone I know through Instagram. Itās been wonderful!What did I make? NotSigridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16187364244385056641noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6215123741467950471.post-60694174472966690362022-10-04T12:52:00.000+02:002022-10-04T12:52:03.632+02:00PreparingOctober again, for me that means that I will travel to the UK for a sewing week with my friends. I'm so excited, as this is the first time since 2019 that we can do this (for the obvious reason that the pandemic prevented us from doing this in 2020 and 2021). We have been doing this since 2012 and I really missed it.Next week we will be in Kent again. At the moment I'm deciding what to take and Sigridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16187364244385056641noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6215123741467950471.post-78255818866821771912022-09-18T18:07:00.001+02:002022-09-18T18:09:06.623+02:00Dress for my daughter I wrote about my fear of cutting the fabric for this dress and of course I did cut it. I left it on the floor for a night before taking my scissors and do it. In the meantime, the dress is finished and the wedding of my daughtersā friend was last Friday. We both were happy with the result and she felt very good wearing it. It was not the easiest of fabrics to work with, it had been a Sigridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16187364244385056641noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6215123741467950471.post-10224021404649864492022-09-07T14:09:00.006+02:002022-09-07T14:09:55.780+02:00Debut skirt, my first pattern published!Today I published my first pattern on Etsy š, the Debut skirt. A milestone for me. It's been so much work. I had thought it would involve a lot of time, but it took even more time than I thought. Those last steps, when each time you think you're nearly there! If I had known in advance, I would probably not have done it š. The pattern comes in A4, US letter and A0 (copyshop) size and Sigridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16187364244385056641noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6215123741467950471.post-80860222550496392802022-08-31T18:06:00.000+02:002022-08-31T18:06:04.382+02:00Fear of cuttingDo you have fear of cutting fabric? Even after so many years of sewing I have that fear occassionally. Like with the project Iām currently working on. My daughter will attend a wedding in a few weeks and asked me to make her dress. She had found a photo on Pinterest of the dress she would like. My daughter, like me, likes non-fussy garments, so the lines of this dress are not complicated. Sigridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16187364244385056641noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6215123741467950471.post-4406507943335707852022-08-30T15:14:00.000+02:002022-08-30T15:14:28.115+02:00Skirt variations It's a special experience to see a pattern that I drafted made by others. In this case my Debut skirt. I'm grateful for having such wonderful sewing friends. In the video you see me wearing my own versions and three others, made by a friend living close. She was so enthusiastic about it that she made three in a row :). Lucky me that I could wear them for photos as she has a size Sigridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16187364244385056641noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6215123741467950471.post-11601293032618059702022-08-28T23:45:00.000+02:002022-08-28T23:45:15.181+02:00Debut skirt - coming soonIn my post last week I mentioned I am working on a skirt pattern. It's being tested by a couple of friends at the moment and I hope to publish it very soon. Today a few photos of the skirt, which is asymmetrical and has pleats in the right front. In the second photo I wear it with a blouse in the same fabric, making it look like a dress. Always one of the most difficult things for me, takingSigridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16187364244385056641noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6215123741467950471.post-81886101056448427562022-08-23T23:05:00.000+02:002022-08-23T23:05:18.349+02:00Braiding/weaving Thank you for the comments, how sweet to know Iāve been missedš. It means a lot!Let me show you a project I made this year ( doing a bit of catching up).It was inspired by a photo I saw online and I just had to make it. What helped too was that I bought a set of tube turners shortly before and could practise using them. First I made a lot of fabric tubes, then I braided them onto the Sigridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16187364244385056641noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6215123741467950471.post-35860405154037146992022-08-22T23:55:00.004+02:002022-08-22T23:57:09.482+02:00Come back Hi, itās been a very long time since I posted on this blog. Perhaps no one is ever checking in again any more? I do understand and still I want to give it a try.I have been sewing in the past years and at the moment Iām mostly showing my work on Instagram. However, thereās been a bit of silence there too because I have been working hard on a new challenge. I have drafted a pattern for a Sigridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16187364244385056641noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6215123741467950471.post-11931755038847144462020-12-19T17:20:00.004+01:002020-12-19T17:20:54.610+01:00Jeans - sewing a curved seamI made some good progress on my jeans. The back pieces are finished and the front pockets done. The pocket has a strong curve. In most of my garments I work with the seam lines and I mark those so stitching is basically stitching over the seam lines. Not with this pattern, which has 5/8" seam allowances (1.5 cm) included. When sewing with default seam allowances it's important Sigridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16187364244385056641noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6215123741467950471.post-22507776436483437582020-12-16T23:35:00.003+01:002020-12-16T23:35:47.353+01:00Sewing jeans This past weekend I started with a new pair of jeans. Iām using the Ginger pattern in the high waist version. I see that Iāve never blogged about it. My current black pair is about two years old, not so black any more and it definitely has seen better days. Time to replace it, as I love wearing it. A project to do in a few steps. Today I topstitched the back pockets and have sewn them Sigridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16187364244385056641noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6215123741467950471.post-92206968396246763052020-11-25T10:45:00.003+01:002020-11-25T10:45:42.775+01:00From disaster to acceptableAs we all know you sometimes want to get a little outside your comfort zone and try something new. For me this now meant sewing a different style t-shirt. The basic picture of this one is just a slight variation: v neckline, dropped shoulder but not too much, little accent line center front. The pattern is from Ottobre issue 5/2016. Let me say there's nothing wrong with the pattern, but it Sigridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16187364244385056641noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6215123741467950471.post-37293245526765387742020-11-20T12:27:00.001+01:002020-11-20T12:35:22.341+01:00A top by my daughter It's been so nice to hear some of you just like to read my posts. I do realise I've been here before in the past years, which is probably something that happens occassionally when you have been doing something (in my case blogging) for so long. Sorry to have bothered you with my uncertainty and indecisiveness. There are a few things I will change in the near future but I'll come to Sigridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16187364244385056641noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6215123741467950471.post-20573483349507885062020-11-16T23:39:00.003+01:002020-11-16T23:39:43.707+01:00Hi Hi, itās been a very long time since I posted anything here. Hope you are doing well in this strange year with the pandemic all over the globe. Iām fine, have been sewing but not blogging. I have also started a new adventure and started giving sewing lessons in the small town I live and will soon start at another location too. Exciting and love to do that. Itās great to share the love of Sigridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16187364244385056641noreply@blogger.com49tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6215123741467950471.post-50734334543635347192020-05-05T16:59:00.001+02:002021-04-28T18:01:03.187+02:00Finishing a sleeveless dress (facing or lining)During the long time I've been sewing I've used several ways for finishing a sleeveless dress. There are methods where you don't sew the center back or the side seams until the facing/lining is done. Which not always works as I'd like to, as it doesn't give you much opportunity for fitting while sewing. Which is what I (and a lot of you too I think) often do. At least for finetuning in the final Sigridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16187364244385056641noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6215123741467950471.post-43957529170413898942020-03-03T21:16:00.001+01:002020-03-03T21:16:22.261+01:00Jacket modeled on meI have a few catch-up posts to do. Let me start with a post with only a few words. This is the jacket I finished a month ago but didn't yet show wearing it.
I'm very pleased with it and have worn it a few times already. The sewing details are in the previous post.
Sigridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16187364244385056641noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6215123741467950471.post-52179827461444761072020-02-04T22:40:00.001+01:002020-02-04T22:40:51.154+01:00Jacket from Burda February 2020
Though the muslin of the Knip Mode jacket was a huge disappointment I was still in a jacket sewing mood. I spent an evening trying to draft that jacket myself but it was too complicated. I do have some pattern drafting skills, but this was out of my league.
Then February Burda came along with this pattern. Not as complicated but still lovely lines. Add to this my confidence in their consistentSigridhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16187364244385056641noreply@blogger.com29