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What a Girl Wants

Monday, March 23rd, 2009 Posted in Cleft Palate, Day to day, Family, Frida, Ronja, Sewing, The house | 15 Comments »

  Ronja picked it out. I'm not too good at letting her choose the fabric (it'll all end up pink), but this time she got to. I gave her the opportunity to pick the fairy fabric, and she did at first, but ...

Early Summer Blouse

Friday, March 6th, 2009 Posted in Day to day, Ronja, Sewing | 17 Comments »

Monday I received a package of beautiful fabric from Fabric.com. I have been rather tired this week, still not feeling up to much after my sore throat and stuffy nose took off last week, but I still had to do a bit ...

Matryoshka dolls blouse

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 Posted in Day to day, Frida, Sewing | 18 Comments »

A week ago, an online shop with a small, but very nice selection - Silassen.dk - had a sale with 50% discount on Japanese fabric and trim. I usually buy Japanese fabric in the US, but with a discount like that, ...

I wanted to show you…

Monday, September 8th, 2008 Posted in Day to day, Frida, Sewing | 11 Comments »

...something I made for me. I haven't been sewing much for myself - I'm kind of hesitant because of the fitting-issue. Whatever you make for an adult needs to be fitted to some degree, and also the sizing just isn't ...

Frida below the apple tree

Monday, July 28th, 2008 Posted in Day to day, Frida, Holiday, Running, Sewing | 11 Comments »

At the last part of my running route, I always see two horses - well, there are quite a few horses on the trip, but these two are different. They are standing close to the road, having their grassy dinner, ...

Apple blouse for Frida

Sunday, July 27th, 2008 Posted in Creative children, Day to day, Ronja, Sewing | 13 Comments »

I received some wonderful fabric earlier this week - some of the designs from Sandi Henderson's new line "Farmer's Market". And today I could not help myself - while Mads was out cycling, I made a little blouse for Frida. ...

Spring apron

Thursday, April 17th, 2008 Posted in Day to day, Frida, Holiday, Ronja, Sewing | 4 Comments »

I finished a little apron blouse for Frida tonight. I found a pattern for an apron in a Danish sewing book called "Sådan syr du" ("How to sew") by Rikke Misciattelli, and I totally wanted to see it made with Amy Schimler's ...