Eleanor and Stella

I'm still here!

This month has been crazy busy.  I started working at a new place so now

I'm not making glasses anymore but assisting an ophthalmologist.  It's a mix of a new and

old practice, we just opened at a new location and setting everything up and

learning new routines has been challenging but very fun.

I did manage to get some sewing in this month as well.
I tested a new pattern that was just released, I'll show you in a couple of days.

Today I'll show you my January project for Shwin Designs - just in the nick of time!
Believe me its not because the patterns were so difficult it took me a whole month to
get them done.  It's more of a find time to take photos problem!

A Christmas dress fit for a princess!

I finally have Anitas Christmas dress ready!

It only happens like every 5 years or so that I have everything ready for the holidays some

time in advance.  Who am I kidding I thing it has only happened once and that

was last year, so lets say every 39 years!

Thankfully Anitas dress was a very quick project.

My handsome guy is back!

The kids are finally getting some new mommy made clothes!

First up is my handsome little guy, who actually isn't so little anymore. He has grown so much lately that almost everything I made him last winter is getting too small.  So I just need to roll up my sleeves and make him some new clothes, oh how I love my chores!

To start off I printed out some Titchy Thread patterns.  

This was my first time using her patterns and they did not disappoint!  I have been wanting to make the Twisted trousers ever since they first came out.  Of course he needs some sweaters as well so I thought some Rowan tee's would be in order.

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!

The Garden Girl Collection: The Stella Tunic and Leggings

The last but certainly not the least in the Garden Girl Collection

from Shwin Designs is the Stella Tunic and leggings. 

The Garden Girl Collection: The Jane Dress and Top

Today is my part two of the Garden Girl Collection Trilogy.

The Jane Dress and Top from Shwin Designs.

The Garden Girl Collection: The McKenzie Tunic turned Dress.

Anita:  Mom, why do you make me so many dresses?

Me:  Hmmm, because I really like making them.

Is it possible that she has too many dresses?  

Nahhh, I girl can never have to many dresses!  Am I right?

She is very happy with her newest addition.  Of course she wanted to wear it to kindergarten today, but she agreed to pick out another one for today so she can wear the new one tonight when we attend Roberts graduation from 10th grade.

My to oldest don't get profiled much here, or not at all.  I have only sewed one pair of pajama shorts for Robert, which he refused to model for this blog, and nothing for Hartmann.  I guess it's a bit trickier to please 16 and 19 year old boys than the little ones.  Maybe one day - we'll see!

Ok, now the star of this post

Shorts = Summer?

We are trying to stay optimistic that there will be summer here this year so I keep

sewing summer clothes for the kiddos.

Now it was Viktors turn, and he wanted shiny shorts!

Oh boy how am going to pull that off, I thought!

So together we looked through my fabrics and he found this great cotton + steel xoxo in green

I bought from Miss Matatabi.

So green and gold shorts I made.

Pleasing a picky little customer

I had mixed emotions when cutting out my fabric for the dress I am going to share with you today.

I truly loved the color palette I ended up with BUT I was not sure at all how my picky little customer would react.

Almost no pink, common how is that going to end well?!

Well...

Penny Dress

Well hello!

I'm still here even though May didn't turn out quite as productive on the sewing front as I had hoped.  It took me some time to decide what to make, there where a couple of long weekends and I got hooked on Mad Men.  When I get hooked on something I just can't stop until it's done!  I only have a few episodes left and then I'll dive into my lovely fabric stash again. 

So far I have only sewed from pdf patterns and this time I thought I'd try sewing from an e magazine.  I know it's basically the same thing but I thought maybe the instructions wouldn't be as detailed.  At least when I was reading through them before cutting my fabric it all seemed so much harder.  But then when I had all my fabric pieces in front of me it all made sense.