SHAWL AND PILLOWS

Summer is almost over so as my "sewing for summer". It actually was my goal, to have all my summer clothes handmade. And what do you know... I achieved it, now I am just curious to see if I am going to wear all those outfits next summer. Anyway, need to take pictures and post them here.

And this is my last projects (the beginning of fall season ;) ).

HIDDEN TREASURES

One man's junk - other man's treasure... So true!
So, these are some of my latest finds.

Rug... It was so dirty... But I figured: $6.99, even if I have to throw it away - not too much of a loss. Only after cleaning and some online research the story came out: handmade Persian wool not starched rug...

 

DECOUPAGE. SECOND LOOK.

First time I've heard of decoupage was about 18 years ago. And my reaction was:"What? Cutting pictures and gluing them on the furniture? I am sorry, but I did it when I was five and was punished for this." Later I saw some pictures of it and left them unnoticed, some even made me think "ugly!". But then something happened and I wanted to learn how to do it. OMG! If you go a little bit dipper then bottles and cutting board - it is a whole new world.

Give it a second look and you may find a new hobby!

JUST ONE WEEKEND. SEWING FOR FUN - 5

Yesterday, actually, the whole weekend was wonderful!Nothing in particular but I have just have such a wonderful feeling when I think about it. Saturday was just lazy. W played and I ran to Boulder and came back, at night we went to see "Snow White and a Huntsman". OK, I have to admit, the whole movie I was waiting when Julia Robertson appeared. Obviously, she did not... Just when we came home I realised that she played Qween in the movie ."Mirror, Mirror". Can you imagine that TWO movies based on the same tale would be released the same year?!

TEA TOWELS. SEWING FOR FUN - 4

So, few posts ago I showed new tea towels I made for my kitchen. Do you know what tea towels are suppose to be used for? This is correct! For clean dishes and for putting under the rolls/breads and such. The problem is, in my kitchen they would be used for hands hence will get very spotty very fast. And because I spent two days making them this was not the future I wanted for them. The answer is - hand towels. But does anybody want to spend anytime making something knowing it is going to the trash pretty soon? Not me! So, I came up with these hand towels, they are decorative, you can throw away but safe your labor.

CRAFTS FROM BURLAP. SEWING FOR FUN - 3

One of my favorite sewing material is a burlap. Thankfully I can get an almost unlimited amount of it in a place we roast our coffee. These are just few things I made.
This apron I made using my old one as a template and when I showed it to my baristas... well, I ended up making ten more of them (couple were half aprons).

SEWING FOR FUN-2

But I did not start with making clothes. I actually promised myself not to... All I wanted to do - some small things for home.

This is one of my first projects. I absolutely love yellow-blue-white palette from Alsace. So my kitchen is slowly taking on these colors.

 

TEA  TOWELS

You need very limited amount of fabrics but combine them different ways and possibilities are endless.

SEWING FOR FUN

I never thought i would be making clothes for myself... Probably, because the last time I was making them it was out of necessity. But now it became kinda fun.

SEWING MACHINE COVER

FLOWER OF POMEGRANATE. DECOUPAGE ON AN OLD WRITING TABLE.

As I said before, I have million hobbies, some of them I have from my childhood (like ceramic), some - pretty fresh and new (like bread making, sausages making and decoupage). 

As a first instruction I want to share one of my first decoupage project. If you want to repeat it just remember, the important thing is following the technique (I thank Hiram Manning for his book Manning on Decoupage), careful cutting and gluing and... the sky is a limit - let your imagination go wild! I will learn how to take "step-by-step" pictures.