Shaukat

Shaukatwww.shaukat.co.uk is at 700 old Brompton road and you´ll reach if by taking bus C1 from Victoria station. They sell tweeds and Liberty and the prices of Liberty is so much better than in any other store I visited, You can shop 3 meter pieces or have them to cut from the bolt for you

 

This is 3 meter pieces very eatly folded and the store is very clean, fabric stores have a tendency to be dusty but nor here

They also have chairs for company who dont want to explore the shelves. This is Hanna without the mask...

and this is the two pieces I bought, the first is very Liberty to me and the second one not so but has a nice retro feel to it. Liberty cottons are so nice to touch and have the nicest drape....yum!

Next week I will be given the keyes to my new sewingroom. I decided that I lacked a room and wrote the board of my appartment building if they had any vacancies and they did not but shortly after this room, right down the stairs was available and now it´s been cleaned and painted and I can start carry down thing very soon. There´s even very functional shelves down there, so I´m looking forward get my appartment livable again....and the rent for this room is less than tiny...

Oh yes! and I´m going to Ireland in August!!!!

Good night mask

I don´t know what the proper name is for this but my niece fixed one for herself fast

Protect and serve

I`m not in the army but at Stonemountain and dauther in Berkeley I bought a pattern from Decades of style, they had a lot of nice patterns, but I like aprons, have some vintage in the attic and also some vintage patterns, but they are kind of small in sence that they don´t protect very well.  On this apron almost all seams are finished with bias tape and I had readymade in my stash, the fabric is a quilters cotton that are more stable than usual and I thoughyt that the combo had a vintage feel to it. I would like to do this again but then I would make the pocket bigger.

The pattern is no 5005 1950s Ptotect & Serve Apron, highly recommended!



 

Burda Plus spring/summer 2013

Burda Plus have the last years been a kind of " best of" so if you by Burda Style you already have all the pattern...Now they are back in business with this issue; all new patterns, at least for plus size and I can basically see myself in almost everything Nice stories and fab fabrics.
Thank you Burda!!!!

I´m working on a flapper dress that I´m going to wear to a party extravaganza later this month and used one of the dresses from this issue as a top and going to use a Vogue skirt pattern for bottom. I´m using a kind of retro fabric bought in Paris and underlining with silk organza and the fabrics don´t behave in the same way...I´ve done underlining before but not this large pieces, but there´s still plen...some time to get the job done.

Napkins

I dont sew much home dec, but I´m proud to live in an appartment where all the curtains are hemmed...
I do enjoy cooking, baking etc and used to write a blog on those subjects too, today I sometimes read foodblogs and one of my favourites are Chocolate and Zucchini A long time ago she made napkins by sewing two fat quarters together, turning them and topstitch, really nice and I thought I could do that with my reproductionfabrics that I´ve been stashing and then I forgot all about it until I watched the FQ table at Peapod fabrics and I bought 8 pieces that cordinated in pairs. I cut squares as large as I could get and used a contrast from one of the fabrics for the topstitching. Really nice and fast and great for a gift.

San Fransisco

I can´t believe it´s a week since I went home, due to timezones It will be a week tomorrow from when I returned. I´m still on vacation and have not have any big issues with jetlag maybee due to that I was up early the entire week in SF. I toured the city, shopped a lot of fabric and attendet PR weekend and listened to Sandra Betzina....and bought some books from her and got some patterns for free that where unloved by others
and here´s some photos that are not fiberrelated

OK there might be some fibers in the strawberries and the tea leaf sallad...

Grey dress Onion melange

 

The dress is finished, only missing my label

 

 Here´s a close up on front detail and sleeve and you can also see how beautiful the fabric is. I already feel that this is a dress I will wear a lot

 I got the sewing bee book today and the other book I bought a couple of months ago. What I don´t like about these books is that you have to tape a lot of papers together pdf patterns are not a favourite of mine...the sewingbee gives you the option of enlarge with help from a grid,... like even less... There´s one pattern for a sleeveless tunic thats fullscale in the sewing bee book and the sizes are 8- 16 the other book is interesting becourse you make the pattern with your own measurement

I thnk the sewingbee book reflects the joy I find watching the show, there are step by step instructions for a lot of clothes and home dec. including Tillys blouse ( finished edition) and my favourite; Stuarts dress ( love that fabric!)

I also finished the hem on Paco´s half circle skirt..... I fused it.... It´s a knit and that´s how I prefer to hem those items....and I´m not a skilled sewer then it comes to knits.

Onion 7063

I decided I wanted to sew a dress for SFO and looked through some options
Onion 5040 I´ve done it before but I´m not sure I blogged about it, I used a crinkly cotton-po light blue fabric and never really liked the sleeves, but I like the boho style of the body. I started with covering the lower part of the sleeve with my thumb and it looked so much better

Then it was this dress that I made the other year and then I thought about using the sleeves, the short puffy ones and that´s what I did. There was  a minor difference in size

I used a rayon from Stof och Stil and rayon lining. I decided to go with the rayon instead of the cotton voile becource this fabric is heavy and will work all year around exept for a hot summer day and I just have to make myself  another dress where cotton voile is a better choice, I might even do the 2023 with a simular fabric as the first flowery dress that I loved to wear...

 

It lookes like my visions for a sewing room are coming closer. A couple of months ago I wrote to the board of my appartment building and asked if they had any rooms in the basement that I could rent and yesterday I got a call that there´s a big room free from may 1:st : We don´t know yet if there are any outlets and the best part is that it´s a big room and its in my building

Ok now I have to set in the sleeves.....