so it was ages ago that I made a tutorial for something and I had this one kind of laying around (in the paper version) so I thought that I should make it into a pretty Illustrator picture and upload...
my friend the Bellasaurious just had to sneak into a picture to ;)
Just wanted to give you all a shout that I have reopened my etsy shop again http://learningtofly.etsy.com
So I am at a new school now, studying tailoring in Uddevalla, direction woman. I wanted to share some pictures I took last weekend of my friend Bella in my raw hide crown and a lace dress I made.
Promise to say Hi! to me at medeltidsveckan if you see me.
Every one needs silly things to wear on your head, so to my kampfrau outfit I wanted a wulsthaube. It was super simple to do, I used these instructions but the triangular part I cut on the bias and s...
This year is the first year in my life to go to Medeltidsveckan (medieval week) on Gotland and since I have NO medieval clothing what so ever this spring have been very much about making a few outfit...
In school we had a project where we should find an architect/building to take our inspiration from. I have had a picture of Casa Batlló by Antoni Gaudí in my inspiration folder for ages so I choose t...
not 100% sure how to translate the title of the project, “bära” is Swedish for carry, but also to wear, and “bäras” is to be carried, oh well we’ll just leave it at that...
Hello, long time no see, and what other thing can I say then it is living that have pulled me away from the computer screen. The good company of lovely people that have been my everyday life now. It ...
In the beginning of December, we got this assignment in school, we where supposed to interpret a poem into a 3 dimensional object only using paper (glue and other things to keep it together was okey ...
Being at my sisters home in North Carolina over Christmas makes my crafting nerves itch. I needed something to do with my hands! Luckily they have a Michael’s in the town she lives in so we too...
I just wanted to share my awesome book bargain. I found a super bargain at Barns&Noble, a book that I have looked for a long time but every time I found it it have either been out of stock or rea...
The last theme party before summer had the theme “fairy tales” a whole bunch of people decided to be trolls! Since we are Swedish our trolls were the John Bauer kind of trolls. The outfit...
Just a quick post with just one picture of my current project, more pictures and info will come soon, I just wanted to show you all my new baby, the corset made out of vegetable tanned 1,5mm cowhide....
I am really LOUSY at keeping this blog updated, sorry as usual, but at least I KNOW I’m lousy at it. ;) But I bring lots of new photos now, because it is not like I haven’t done anything...
So here it is at last, the under bust pattern tutorial! At one moment in the making of this tutorial my portable hard drive crashed and all the data for this tutorial was lost with it, I was almost d...
Hi and hello again, long time no see as usual ;) Now my summer holiday have started so I might be able to keep this place a bit more updated. Lets start with the 18th century outfit I am making, all ...
The second big party in school had the theme “circus/freak show” I made myself a pair of horns, put on a tutu and the striped corset. The horns are made of 1,5mm vegetable tanned cowhide ...
sorry for not updating but school is keeping me busy but I thought that I would show you what I have made today. We have had drawing for two days not, learning to use a steel pen and ink and it have ...
Azlene Owens of “the all black girl” made me her headline :D Pop over and read it! http://www.theallblackgirl.com
So here comes a tutorial on how to do lattice smocking, the smock on the left in this picture. Just as in honeycomb smocking one have a net of dots on the fabric, this time we are marking them out on...
I know it is silly, but I do it all the time, I know it is silly but I do. I doubt my skills, I doubt my vision and I doubt that I will ever make it as a seamstress or even if that is really what I w...
So I updated my blogroll, go check all the awesome people I “stalk” on the internet out.
I thought that I would show how I make honeycomb smocking, the technique I used while smocking the leather belt thing. Start with drawing a net of dots on your fabric, I do the dots directly on the f...
Sorry for not posting in a while again, there are just so much things to do! I have been sewing a lot by hand, watching a ton of Jane Austen movies (wrong era but lovely anyway) . I have finished a c...
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