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New Territory

Thursday, April 28th, 2011 Posted in Frida, Sewing, Work life | 4 Comments »

Today was a bit of a tough day at work, and it left me with a lot on my mind. As always, the obvious way for me to relax and get my mind off things is to sew - it's ...

The Simply Stylish Handbag

Sunday, January 10th, 2010 Posted in Sewing | 11 Comments »

I have started looking at my pile of unfinished pre-kitchen projects, and this is the first one I decided to pick up again. I bought the pattern from U-handbag a little while ago - before I went into my non-sewing ...

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 ...

Water Lily Kimono and a cup of tea

Thursday, September 11th, 2008 Posted in Day to day, Frida, Ronja, Sewing | 12 Comments »

For a while now, I have been wanting to try this kimono-pattern made by Amy from Habitual. Yesterday I got started with the pattern, and today I cut the fabric and sewed it up. Ronja chose the fabric for the ...

Bird outfit for a little one

Monday, August 18th, 2008 Posted in Day to day, Family, Sewing | 11 Comments »

A few of you guys have asked whether I made something for my new niece, and I did, so I thought I'd put it out here.   I didn't have that much time to make it, meaning it couldn't be too complicated, ...

Red riding hood romper

Monday, July 7th, 2008 Posted in Computer, Day to day, Frida, Sewing | 17 Comments »

I love that post title - Red riding hood romper! Try saying it again, really tasting the r's - rrrred rrriding hood rrromper... OK - I'll move on!  ;) For those of you who haven't heard, my computer crashed some days ...

Two teeth and a romper

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 Posted in Day to day, Frida, Sewing | 19 Comments »

Frida had her first two teeth yesterday. She likes it symmetric, I guess - can't have the mess of getting one tooth at a time. And well, ever since yesterday, she has been attacking her food in stead of just opening ...

“Tie back” tunic

Monday, May 26th, 2008 Posted in Day to day, Frida, Ronja, Sewing | 14 Comments »

The weather cleared up a few hours ago, and now the girls are both asleep - each in their own room. Frida has been sleeping in her room for four nights now, and there have been no problems at all - ...