Me Made May 2013 Day Six to Twelve

Of course I was too busy to post on Wednesday, so instead of a small round-up, this is gonna be a long post with out fits from Day Six to Twelve. Me-made May is going really well so far!

Day Six: Me-made shirt and a pair of white jeans that I bought in Santa Barabara. Paired with my new kicks, some sneakers that look like Nike Air but were only 1/5 of the price of Nike shoes. Of course I spilled some tomato sauce on my jeans during lunch break, but it will hopefully wash out.

Day Seven: Such a Hamburg-style outfit. Complete me-made outfit. The blouse is made from a vintage pattern from the 70s and the skirt is a simple A-line silhouette. Love the mustard yellow. To define the waist, I'm wearing a pink belt.

Day Eight: Weather forecast predicted rainy weather, so I prepared mayself with some cosy knit sweater (made-by-mom) and jeans, which are me-made. Weather turned out to be good, so I was sweating like hell on my way home from a grocery store.

Day Nine: Bank holiday in Germany, so just a comfortable dress for lounging. It's really soft and cosy, so perfect for easy days.

Day Ten: Skirt is me-made from a cool digital print jersey that I once bought for a very good price at Karstadt. The green shirt in emerald green was a great find at a flea market some days ago.

Day Eleven: Weekend wear! For a sightseeing tour in Hamburg with some guests I wore an old me-made top ( yoke is from the same fabric like the blouse from Day Seven).

Day Twelve: Chilling in another me-made jersey dress, which is a bit short, so I wear it as a top together with a me-made black skirt.

Me-made May 2013 Day One to Five

I'll post a round-up of the me-made outfits every five days, because that fits best into my busy schedule this month.

 Day 1 consisted of the me-made outfit, which I want to wear every Wednesday (challenge!). This outfit consists of me-made pants made with my trusted pattern from Burda, a simple top made of a Burda pattern and a self-drafted cardigan in a lovely mustard yellow. Fabrics are all from stoffe.de, but unfortunately sold out right now. I have some remnants from the pants, and I hope that it will be enough for a skirt.

 Day 2 was a comfortable outfit for work, where the me-made item ist the top. It's a simple raglan sleeve top from a magazine called Sabrina. The jeans were bought second-hand in Redwood City and are actually Target. The fabric of the shirt is actually a fabric which was once used by H&M in a spring collection.

 Day 3 is a simple and comfrortable outfit for working at home. Later I changed into shorts, because the weather was so nice. The shirt is from a self-drafted pattern and has a wide back and small cap sleeves.

 Day 4 was a dress and cardigan. Here in Hamburg one really raises eyebrows if you are dressed too summery in May!, so I wore the cardigan to tone things down a little bit. The dress is actually self-drafted from the same pattern as the shirt from day 3. Fabric is from Karstadt, about two years ago. I made the dress for my California road trip.

Day 5 was a simple woven top, which looks like a tee and some cut off jeans. The fabric is silk and cotton and feels great on the skin, perfect for a warm spring day.

Break a leg!

Since two weeks I'm allowed to walk on two legs again, without crutches just using my legs. It's a great feeling and the day after I got the news from the doctor, I happily walked around in my flat without any reason. You don't notice how cool it is to be able to walk and carry around stuff at the same time. With the crutches I always had to carry a bag around my neck or carry a messenger bag, but I wasn't able to transport drinks from the kitchen to the living room. Now I can and it is great!

I haven't done any sewing in a while, but yesterday I sat in front of my machine again and I was a bit nervous. I made a top from a trusted pattern, just to get into the groove again. I'm not 100% happy with it yet, but maybe I'll show it during Me-made-May!
I couldn't participate last year, because of all the changes that happened in my life, but this year I feel that it is possible to participate again and so I declare herewith:

'I, Tine from sewontrend.blogspot.com, sign up as a participant of Me-Made-May '13. I endeavour to wear one handmade item each day for the duration of May 2013. Furthermore I will wear a complete handmade outfit once a week. Since I'll attend my graduation ceremony in the last week of the challenge, I will make a me-made-outfit for that occasion.'

The outfit that I was wearing today would already count as a Me-made-May outfit. I made the socks, cardigan and shirt. The shirt actually has a really cool princess seam and is very slimming. You'll definitely get to see it again in May.

Für meine deutschen Leser: Ich erinnere mich noch gut an meinen ersten Post im Januar, in dem ich furchtlos ankündigte meine UFos zu bekämpfen. Tatsächlich haben sich die UFOs anscheinend selber bekämpft, denn als ich neulich das Top fertigstellen wollte, konnte ich die zugeschnittenen Teile einfach nicht wieder finden. Ich habe meine Stoffe vor einiger Zeit neu sortiert und anscheinend sind die Teile dabei abhanden gekommen. Vielleicht finde ich sie aber auch irgendwann zufällig wieder unter den Stoffrestenn, wer weiß? Fürs Erste habe ich die Suche aufgegeben.
Das graue Kleid erwies sich doch als zu klein im Brustbereich und der Stoff wartet nun darauf in ein Top umgewandelt zu werden. Dafür benötige ich allerdings den Sorbetto Schnitt. Eigentlich existiert er auch schon ausgedruckt und zusammengeklebt, doch auch diesen kann ich nicht finden. Manchmal macht Aufräumen einfach alles schlimmer, als es schon ist, oder nicht? Zum Glück kann man den Schnitt einfach erneut Ausdrucken und Zusammenkleben. Das ist der große Vorteil an digitalen Schnitten, nicht wahr?

Bye bye crutches!

I'm back on track. After my last doctor's appointment I got the permission to walk again. So, now I'm back in the game again. Many ideas for projects have formed in my head and finally I'll be able to make them.
My right foot is still a bit swollen, but that will get better in the next days I hope.

More important is that I can walk around again and carry things in my hands, which is basically what I did the whole afternoon after the appointment.

This weekend I'll rearrange some furniture and soon I'll also start to work again. Work from home was fun, and it definitely has some advantages, but I miss the daily opportunity to dress up.
Spring has arrived in the north of Germany, so it's time to wear the light blouses and dresses again.

New idea: Chevron Quilt

Trying out fabric combinations with the new fabric table at stoffe.de

So, I've been sewing for nearly 10 years already, and have just realized that I haven't tried much apart from sewing clothes. Okay, there has been the occasional pillow and I also had a massive period where I was only sewing bags ( in the beginning of my sewing career), but I've come to realize that I really lack knowledge about different sewing techniques.
Something I want to change and so I 've been thinking about making my first quilt. There have been a lot of really pretty quilts in the sewing world in the past weeks, e.g Luzia Pimpinellas triangle quilt or Dickmadammes colourful version.

I want to have a quilt for my bedroom and it should match my curtains. The curtains have stripes in pink, grey and a really pretty mint-turquoise-greenish colour, which I love. I already got a matching lamp at Ikea which only needs to be installed.
So I've been searching the internet for fabrics in those colours and I think that I've found the perfect match. These cotton fabrics from stoffe.de are from the same supplier, so they are the same weight and colour patch.

quick design scribble

Now I only need to calculate how much of the fabrics I need and decide on a colour for the backside and the binding. I think I'll use some fleece on the backside, possibly in pink.
For the pattern I want to do a really simple chevron. I've found this tutorial on YouTube, which illustrates the process very well - and triangles should't be too difficult to match and sew.

Here you can see some of the fabrics that I chose.
Disclaimer: Yes, I work for the company that operates the webshop stoffe.de, but even if I wouldn't work there, it would have been my first stop to look for the perfect fabrics.

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Rediscovering German Fashion Brands

I never really considered buying anything from Laurel so far, it's just a brand in my mind that old ladies wear and I'd never thought that one day I'd take their fashion as a source of inspiration. But the design team seems to have noticed this and they vitalised the brand.
The looks above are my favourite ones from the current lookbook. I mean combining stripes in an unusual manner, looks like they saw my striped tee ;-)
The dotted pants are just gorgeous, anybody who can tell me where to get dotted cotton-elasthan, please comment! I need to find similar fabric, because as always the size of these pants only goes up to German 42, which is a size too small for me.

Betty Barclay I rediscovered when I browsed magazines at an appointment with my doctor today. They have amazing printed pants, unfortunately I couldn't find them online yet. I think they will be at the point of sale in the next months.

Maybe something similar could be made of Jersey Salima?