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A Relaxing Fall at the Beach

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I’ve already written in previous posts that I love the sea. It’s the place where I feel at home, where, when I smell the sea on arrival, I feel happy.

This time we didn’t go there in the summer, but in the fall.
That was perhaps even better. I had a surgery a few weeks ago and had to take it easy. No sport, no overexertion, no swimming. That was forbidden according to the doctor. I don’t know if I would have stuck to it if we’d had the best weather. 😀

We slept in without having to listen to the stupid wake-up call, went for walks and of course spent a lot of time on the beach

I wasn’t allowed to lift much. So, I left my camera equipment at home this time. I took the photos with my mobile.

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Discovering Hidden Gems in Fall

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I’m not a big fan of fall or winter. My favorite season is summer. But in fall, I like the bright colors of the leaves, the grass, the fall flowers. I didn’t take the photos here with my camera, but with my mobile.

We actually just wanted to go for a walk in the small forest. But then I saw the colors everywhere. And we passed an magical pond. It looked as if no one had been there for years.
Not true, of course. We came across other tourists on our walk 😀 . This pond was like something out of a fairy tale.

DIY Sewing a shirt with stick figure :D

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I don’t know what made me come up with the idea of stick figures, but I really wanted to make more of these shirts.

Make a fantastic shirt from grandpa’s undershirt pattern

I think single-colored shirts are so boring and somehow I got the idea to make stick figures on the next shirt.
I didn’t know exactly which figures I wanted and just googled stick figures.
I came across the figure with DUTY. On its own, of course, it’s deadly boring, so I came up with the idea of combining it with at least 2 other figures.
I now knew what I wanted, but it took me a weekend to find the right pictures.

I bought the vector graphics and had them printed on the two pattern pieces.
At first I wanted to machine embroider it, but it was supposed to be a thin, light summer shirt and a print would be better.
How do you like the result? I think it’s great 😀

DIY – I copied the most amazing designer bag and made a backpack out of it

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I think it’s been almost 2 years since I saw the most beautiful little handbag in the world on Pinterest. ❤ ❤ ❤
I won’t write who the designer is, just that you couldn’t buy the bag anymore.
But because I really wanted to have it, preferably as a backpack, I decided to sew this bag myself.

Getting the black faux leather was easy. The original is made of real leather, but almost impossible to make with a normal sewing machine. The hardest part was finding a shiny gold-colored zipper, which had to be huge.
I also spent a long time looking for pins because I didn’t know which ones to choose for the bag. I decided on colorful, funny 😀

I bought a really cute little leather jacket for toddlers as a model for the jacket, which was very well priced. Lucky for me. 😀 A pattern has been made from it


I won’t describe in detail HOW I made this backpack, but I will show a few cell phone photos from the sewing course.

Bag like a jacket 01

 

I don’t know if you can tell from the picture how huge the zipper is.

Bag like a jacket 02

I made a new logo for the very expensive lining and the collar cut-out. My others all have something to do with nautical, which wouldn’t have fitted here.

I don’t know if you can see it in the pictures, but I had the lettering printed in gold on the black lining. It looks really classy. ❤

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Fortunately, I came across the lockers while searching for pins!!! How else could I have attached the pins through 3 layers of faux leather without them coming off? You can see the lockers in the picture, but later on they were covered with faux leather.

Don’t be surprised that the lining is visually so badly sewn, what you see here is just the back of the lining that I used for the collar neckline. To make it look nice and smooth on the front, I had to fix the lining on the back in some places.

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The pocket flap is almost finished, but not yet sewn on. How do you like the pins?

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And now the finished backpack. If you look at the size of the pins, you can see how big the zipper really is.
I love this backpack ❤ ❤ ❤

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Make a fantastic shirt from grandpa’s undershirt pattern

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I’m sure many have a grandpa who liked to wear those white undershirts, even under shirts? 😀

I am currently sorting out my fabrics. Over the years I’ve bought lots of fabrics because I thought they were so pretty, but I’ve never had a plan for what to sew with them.

Because it’s too bad to leave them in the closet any longer, and sometimes I don’t even remember why I bought them 😀 I give the fabrics away in the sewing course.

I found these two fabrics while sorting out. Only 1 yard of each. You don’t have that many options for what you can do with them.
That’s why I googled and googled and googled 😀
At some point I came across a grandpa pattern and chose it for the shirts.

I adapted the pattern slightly because my fabrics are cotton and not jersey.
Here is the result. I added some decoration so that it doesn’t look so boring with just the fabric.
I like the result ❤

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An embroidered maritime hoodie. Huge mistakes with sewing chalk ..

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And once again I have chosen a pattern that I really like.

Let it Snow sweatshirt in summer hahaha

I had a lot of problems with this hoodie. I’m still not quite sure whether I like the end result as it is now.

You can see exactly what my problem is with the hood! Two different shades of white.

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When I made the holes for the cord on the hood, I hadn’t paid attention and also made the hole through the embroidered middle section. Stupid me!

I ordered 4!!!!! different white fabrics, but all of them were not the same white color as my original.
So I made the new middle section with it.

But then things got really bad. I made markings on all the pieces with blue sewing chalk so that I knew where the embroidery had to be. Then I ironed embroidery stabilizer onto the back and embroidered all the pieces.

When ALL the embroidery was done, I wanted to wash out the blue chalk in the washing machine. But it didn’t work! Not even after two washes.
Google then told me that this chalk should NEVER be ironed. Unfortunately, I had never noticed this before because I had never marked the right side of the fabric with it. At most for cutting, but it disappears when you sew.

So I had to cut out almost all the pieces again and re-embroider them. But this time I marked them with a pencil.

The only parts I kept are the back and the lower front.
You can still see the blue sewing chalk next to the top red line on the pocket!

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If I decide to make the hoodie again, I will definitely do the lettering on the arm from top to bottom and no longer all the way around. It says ” Ocean is calling”. But you can’t really see it when you’re wearing the hoodie.

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I still like this hoodie. But every time I look at it, I see the two different shades of white!

Here is the complete hoodie from the front and back. Oh yes, I still have to wash out the marks from the pencil that you can still see.

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Let it Snow sweatshirt in summer hahaha

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I actually wanted to make this sweatshirt last year but unfortunately my sewing machine broke down and it took ages for the store where I took it to have the time to fix it. That’s just the way it is when there’s only one sewing shop in a wide area that repairs sewing machines.
Luckily, I finally got around to making the sweatshirt.
It’s already summer now, but the next winter is sure to come 😀

I used the same pattern for the sweatshirt as for the windbreaker. I just made the pattern smaller.

DIY Windbreaker with Dots Dots Dots

Actually, I only wanted to embroider something on the front of the pocket, as with the windbreaker. But I found so many great embroidery designs for winter on Etsy that I couldn’t make up my mind and just used them all. 😀

The fabric is white fleece. I deliberately decided to use the wrong side of the fabric on the outside because I have had bad experiences with embroidering on fleece before.
But if you don’t know it, you can’t see it!

Here is the pocket with a flap. Isn’t the design cute? ❤

Winter Sweat 01

Here is one sleeve. I embroidered snowflakes from top to bottom on the other sleeve.

Winter Sweat 02

I like this design best of all. It’s quite large on the back. When you see the finished part, it could have been even bigger!

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For the hood, I would have turned the design 180°. I draped the hood in such a way that you can see the embroidery in the photo. When it’s positioned normally, you can only see the upper, upside-down embroidery! When I have the hood up, it fits, but when do you put the hood on a sweater?

At least I hardly ever do. Unfortunately, I saw it too late and didn’t have enough fabric left.

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Here is the sweatshirt from the front

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And here the swearshirt from the back

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Now it just has to get cold enough for me to wear the sweatshirt 😀

My 2nd jumpsuit and having to make new experiences with embroidery

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And the next jumpsuit of mine, which I finally finished today.
It had already been sewn a while ago, but I wanted to embroider it.
This was the first time I embroidered fleece and unfortunately the result is not what I had hoped for. The thick, fluffy fibers of the fleece make the embroidery look very unclear. You can’t even read the small lettering.
When the embroidery foil was still on, it looked really great, but when I took it off, it became unclear.
At least I know for the future that I can no longer use such small motifs or lettering on fabric like this

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In the next photo you can see that it is double face fleece. Stripes on the outside and rockets, stars and such on the inside.

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Here you can clearly see that I would have been better off making this motif larger

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But since the jumpsuit is only for at home, I could live with it.
You never stop learning!

DIY A very very colorful super fluffy jumpsuit for at home

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I actually wanted to post my last project before Easter, but I forgot.
This weekend I finally got around to taking the photos.
I didn’t sew the jumpsuit at home, but in a sewing class, because anyone who has ever cut and sewn fleece knows that you will find fluff EVERYWHERE afterwards! 😀

A bit mean, but I helped the sewing teacher to get rid of all the fluff with the vacuum cleaner.

I’m one of those women who is always freezing. So if you’re sitting at the sewing machine or at the table for a long time, for example, you don’t want to do that with a warm blanket. It restricts your movement.
But fleece is the perfect solution. It’s super soft, comfortable to wear and keeps you nice and warm.

Simply perfect for at home. Of course I would never leave the house in it 😀 but I didn’t plan it for that.
At the moment I’m already working on the 2nd jumpsuit so that I can always change in winter ❤

And here is my super colorful soft jumpsuit. I made it in the largest size so that I have plenty of space to move in it.

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