Warm jackets for the kids!

Winter is slowly but surely creeping up on us whether I like it or not,

and it doesn't look like we will be getting a summer house somewhere in the

southern hemisphere this year (or any other year for that matter).

I guess I had a feeling this would be the case and I'm glad I bought some lovely

wool fabric at Mood Fabrics when I was in N.Y. with my besties celebrating

our big Four Zero this fall.

I used those beautiful fabrics to make jackets for my two youngest ones.

It was the loveliest day when we took our photos so be ready for picture overload in this post!

I was going to blog about the jackets in separate posts but there are some discount codes

going on that I didn't want you to miss out on.

Christmas dress - for me!

A few weeks ago Christina of Wardrobe By Me asked a few of her previous

testers to sew one of her dress patterns in a holiday theme.

I had just bought her Mirri pattern and was planning a dress for me anyway so

of course I was in.  Otherwise I might have procrastinated and not made the

dress until after Christmas.

But now I have my dress ready even in time for

my work Christmas Party next Saturday

The perfect sweater!

I have discovered the most comfortable pattern - fabric combination ever!

You can just thank me in the comment section here below!

Keep reading and you will find a coupon at the end of this post, and believe me you

will want to use it!

This one is for me too, I'm getting comments from the kids now that I have made

enough clothes for me and it's time to start making something for them again.

Here is the perfect sweater:

Amateur Hour.

Guess what you guys - I made a top for myself!

An Anna top no less!

No no no please don't leave just yet!

It's not the Frozen kind - I have not gone completely mad!

So I apologize that there are no charming cute little models here today.

But don't worry they will be back soon enough!

More fall sewing.

I made two more things before we went on vacation.

Both were for Anita, pants and a top.

The post with six pieces of clothing!

Warning, this is a long post.  I hope you make it to the end! 

We have one more week of summer holiday and we are having so much fun!

I wish it could last forever!

We spent a little over a week in Denmark with my in-laws and my sister in-law and

part of her family.  Even though the weather wasn't the greatest to start with we had so much fun.

We just hung out, ate some really good food and enjoyed spending time together.

We went to a zoo and a rainforest park and sent the big kids to a theme park.

I'm not sure whether the kids or my sister in-law had more fun patting the animals! :)

Before we left I sewed up a bunch of clothes for the kids that I wanted to photograph on our trip.

Since summer goes by so fast - way to fast, I'm starting on the fall wardrobe. 

Today I'll show you no less than six pieces of clothing for my little munchkins!

KCW: Pink Stallions!

I really wanted to sew along with kids clothes week this time 

cause I had the perfect fabrics for the theme - Wild Things.

But I had to do my sewing last week because my in-laws will be visiting this week.

I managed to finish what I had planned and today I'll share Anitas wild thing outfit.

If you read my last post you might remember that I said my next post would also 

feature patterns from Jennuine Design.

Tada!

Here you have the Haven Acres Blouse and the Dressage Leggings.

Nice and comfy!

In this post I'm going to continue with a comfortable outfit for active kids, 

and this time Viktor is the star of the show.

Once again I played around with colorblocking the Recess Raglan pattern 

from See Kate Sew.

My original plan was to use the Explorer Hoodie pattern,

but in the end I went with what I knew.

I definitely will sew up the Explorer Hoodie another time though.

The pants are the Mini Hudson Pants from True Bias.

Anita has a new outfit!

Sometimes I have SO many sewing plans but just can't seem to get anything done.
Or at least so it feels but since my last blog post I have sewn I think 5 dresses, two cardigans and some matryoshka bins.

The reason I haven't been blogging recently about my sewing adventures is that I am not liking my photos.  I totally do not understand my camera settings now that I have to take pictures inside due to the colder weather, even though my husband has tried to explain this to me I just can't seem to get it right.  Maybe I should just make him be in charge of the photoshots.  

So I am sorry if the photos you see here are very far from perfect.  

Any tips are welcome!!

Today I'll share with you a Norah dress a pattern by Mouse House Creations and 

an Aster cardigan a pattern by LBG Studio for Willow & co

 I made for Anita.

My happy dude!

It just melts my heart that Viktor and Anita really love the clothes I make them - so far at least!  

Viktor has been waiting patiently all week to wear his new clothes to daycare so last night we had a quick photo shot so he could wear it today.  And this morning Anita threw a massive tantrum because she wanted to wear her blue dress ( the skater dress ) but it needs to be washed so after a lot of bargaining she put on the clothes I had found for her.

Back to Viktors outfit.  I made him a pair of Tree Climber Trousers by Go To Patterns 

and a Recess Raglan by See Kate Sew.